[Gaffer]

...I asked oil magnate T. Boone Pickens whether he would vote for Trump

If T. Boone is such an oil magnate, why did he try to scam us with his wind turbine crap?

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Screw em

[CIB-173RDABN]

Overthinking it a bit.

What we are seeing is the true nature of many who claimed to speak for Republicans. They are Democrat moles that have worked their way into the party, gained control and work hand in hand with the Democrats while giving lip service to those that voted for them.

Trump has pulled back the curtain exposing them for the “traitors” they are.

Shame and damnation to all of them.

[grania]

I’m really getting fed up with the media reporting as truth that these nevertrumpers are in danger of losing because of Trump. They’re going to lose because we’re fed up with backstabbing elitist globalists.

[Paine in the Neck]

Every vote has two parts - its presence and its absence. By casting a ballot you invoke both parts, the presence in favor of your candidate, the absence to the detriment of the other candidates. If you choose not to cast a ballot you are still invoking the absence half of your vote.

Whose harm or benefit that absence vote redounds to isn't always clear - but in the case of the #neverTrump-ers it is blindingly obvious that the absence half of their vote benefits Hillary, the most dangerous candidate in American history - and, considering the power of the US government, arguably the most dangerous candidate in the history of the world.

[Chgogal]

Go Steven Moore!

Shame on ALL #NeverTrumpers. They are real RumpHoles and I hope no one from the Bush family ever gets elected again.

[txrefugee]

The GOPe Hillary supporters are seeking revenge on the 13,000,000 primary voters who got tired of losing with GOPe candidates in 2008 and 2012. They cast themselves as heroes, when all they are are sore losers. If Hillary wins, and she taxes the pants off the rich, they possibly will regret their stubbornness, but they won’t admit it.

[Chgogal]

Bret Stevens is the biggest, most arrogant, the smuggest RumpHole there is. And Krauthammer is not far behind. George Will is living in another Universe, so I don't even bother with him. Boy, Fox News is unwatchable.

[Pontiac]

I certainly don't mean to disparage conservatives who say they won't vote for Trump. One's vote is a matter of personal conscience. But to actively support Clinton is to put the other team's jersey on and then run a lap around the stadium.

It's worth examining the case of the Republicans for Clinton, because none of the arguments make much sense.

It is not sense but principle driving this.

It is the principle of leadership.

The Republican rank and file have rejected their leadership. The rank and file have chosen an outsider over one of the leadership of the party. The rank and file have rejected the leadership and ignored their revealed wisdom and chosen as the Republican candidate a man who rejects many of their preferred donors internationalist policies.

So these LEADERS of the Republican Party are by their actions teaching the lowly rank and file Republicans a much needed lesson. Namely that they must accept the decisions of their betters and follow the LEADERSHIP no matter what rabbit hole they decide the party must go down.

Bob Dole and Mitt Romney were abject failures and did not if fact win the Presidency but they were the choice of the LEADERSHIP and were the best candidate that had a chance of winning that year.

So these Leaders of the party have decided that the rank and file are in much need of of a hard lesson. They must learn to accept the wisdom of the LEADERSHIP without question for the sake of the party.

[Ancesthntr]

I simply do not understand the Never Trump people. Oh, I get that Trump is not a doctrinaire conservative, and that he’s contributed to Dems in the past...but he was a businessman tending to his interests, someone who had to grease palms on both sides of the aisle to prosper.

But Illary Clinton will destroy this country’s politics. She wants ALL of the power, and will exercise as much as she can, as soon as she can, to get it. The Supreme Court will be gone - and with it the 1st and 2nd Amendments, Due Process (for conservatives), etc. She will admit so many immigrants, and give them amnesty and a path to citizenship, that no Republican will EVER be able to win the Presidency again.

There will be NO return to normalcy, NO balance, NO come-back if Hillary wins. Any Never Trumper out there needs to understand that - with Illary Clinton, there are NO RULES. She plays for keeps, and will cheat in any way possible to win. She MUST be stopped.

You say that you don’t know what you’ll get with Trump. OK, that is a reasonably fair stance - although he’s been very forthright about several things that he’ll do:

1) Appoint Constitution-respecting judges and Justices to the federal bench;
2) Rebuild our military;
3) Reduce taxes and regulations;
4) Push for energy independence, which will not only bring some sanity back to our balance of trade, but create hundreds of thousands or millions of jobs;
5) Severely cut government spending;
6) Work for better trade deals, or cancel those that don’t work for us;
7) Slow immigration, and be more selective about it, so that immigration HELPS this country;
8) Take threats to our well-being - like ISIS - seriously, and do something about them;
9) Back our allies and undercut our enemies - the opposite of Obama and Clinton; and
10) Destroy Political Correctness.

OTOH, we do have certainty with Illary - she will do the opposite of those things listed above. She is the antithesis of a conservative, so any genuine conservative MUST oppose her.

Remember William F. Buckley’s words: “I will vote for the most conservative person on the ballot who has a chance to win.” No one other than Illary or Trump can win - we face a binary decision. While Trump is no conservative, he is BY FAR the most conservative of the two of them. Follow Buckley’s advice and vote for Trump.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“So why do they say this? Because the never-Trumpers want Trump to lose, because he is to the political class (Republicans and Democrats) the disruptor that Uber is to taxicab drivers.”

Precisely. Trump showed them to be the limited little idiots that they are, and they hate him for it. This goes for the whole ‘political establishment’, including the pundits, and all those whose ‘special stature’ in life is predicated on their involvement in American politics.