“Why does conservative Kentucky keep voting McConnell or Wisconsin pubs elect Ryan in a landslide primary when there was a Trumpian candidate opposing him?”
My guess is the ability of the GOPe machine to control the nomination. The same reason that conservatives here in California got rolled in the primary last time with the GOPe sticking us with Obama clone Neel Kashkari for the Republican nominee for Governor.
” And Trump’s voting base is shallow as evidenced by all the quitters.”
A lot of these crybabies are not Trump’s base. They are our “conservative purist” bretheren who are too good to accept anything but 100% of what they want. And far from blaming Ryan and McConnell and the other GOPe swamp dwellers they are always eager to announce that they are finished with Trump.
“Trump was going to veto this but Mattis begged him not to and Trump did promise to rebuild the military.”
I suspect that that had a lot to do with Trump’s decision.
“Big loss but I’m not mad at him and I won’t by omission hand the country over to the Dems by sitting out.”
Proving that you’re an adult capable of absorbing a setback without giving up.
Like many of you, I hate this bill. It goes against every principle of disciplined good government.
Using a term from West point’s Cadet prayer, Trump decided to “choose the harder right, than the easier wrong. I think he did the best he could given the trap the dems and never-trumpets set for him.
Our military is critical to our defense, and his highest priority. Let’s not blame him for this horrible bill that landed on his desk. These idiots in congress were holding our nation’s soldiers, sailors, Maries, etc, hostage just to score political points against Trump.
Don’t get mad at Trump, get mad at the perpetrators in Congress.