It’s quite simple really. Many conservatives are sick of being fooled again and again by mere politicians playing conservative to get elected. Trump is the non politician.
I think you got it. We conservatives continued to have conservative values, while the “conservatives” in Washington went over to the dark side, but still saw themselves as “conservative”. Trump shown the light of truth on the cockroaches.
Conversely, Trump has the reputation for keeping his word and meeting his goals.
You are correct. We are not turning our back on conservatives; we are turning our back on members of the ruling class who pretend to be conservative.
“It’s quite simple really. Many conservatives are sick of being fooled again and again by mere politicians playing conservative to get elected. Trump is the non politician.”
1) controlling immigration into our nation for the purpose of preserving our culture and our laws.
2) cutting taxes and regulations, so as to allow for growth in the economy. I seem to remember a rather conservative president during the 1980s who was in favor of the same thing.
3) cutting the government budget while allowing revenues to catch up to spending, so as to balance the budget and later repay at least a portion of our debt.
4) energy independence, to be accomplished by curtailing or removing burdensome and obstructive regulations on the energy industry, and leasing Federal lands containing enormous energy resources to companies who can extract those resources.
5) protecting the Second Amendment.
6) not entangling ourselves in the affairs of nations where our direct interests are not at risk. I seem to remember one George Washington wishing to avoid the same thing, and if he wasn’t a Conservative, then I don’t know who ever was.
7) nominating justices to the Supreme Court who actually respect, and will uphold, the Constitution as it is written. He even put forth a list of people from which he will choose nominees, which list was formulated by the Federalist Society. Those guys are the very definition of conservative.
I simply do not understand how conservatives can legitimately oppose Donald Trump, once they have looked at what he is calling for. Further, we face a binary choice in 99 days. Either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton will be elected as our next president. If anyone reading this believes that Hillary Clinton has one molecule of conservative in her entire body, then I invite them to stop snorting coke and smoking crack. The choice between 100% opposed to your views and values, vs. potentially 30% or 50% opposed to your views and values, is an EASY choice. It is not the choice that most of us would wish to have, but wishes and reality are not the same thing. We are not supposed to be 5 year old children who can’t tell the difference, or deal with reality.
It is time for a lot of the people on Free Republic and elsewhere who are upset that a doctrinaire conservative is not the nominee to snap out of it. It is time to grow up, and to take a cold, hard look at the choice that we face. Hillary Clinton is the antithesis of everything that the Founders wanted in a leader, and sitting on your rear end on Election Day is a betrayal of the ideals of the Founders, as well as everything that they bled and suffered for. Ditto for all the generations of unnamed common people who bled and died for our freedom. It is time to man up, and to vote for somebody who will turn this country around, and who will certainly adhere to our core values a lot more than Hillary Clinton.