My position is to end up with someone I can force myself to pull the lever for, and against Hillary. I won’t have that option with Trump. While I can force myself to vote for a Cruz, as a Christian I can not reconcile the expansion of torture, and the notion of deliberately targeting civilians, with simply wanting to defeat a Democrat. And what would be the point? Trump is pro single-payer, anti-entitlement reform, pro continued planned-parenthood, wall us I, government tightly regulates trade…
Er, so yeah, how is he the anti-government choice, again?
Funny you would say that because I distinctly recall the establishment and the media attacking Ronald Reagan as a “dangerous cowboy who will get us into a nuclear war”.
Granted Trump is no Reagan…but then again in this rude, profane and ignorant society that we now live (most on this thread are too young to remember the 1980’s) perhaps he is the Reagan of his day. In that Ronald Reagan, if he were alive and active in politics, could not get elected with his positive upbeat message.
Then perhaps you, and other “non-supporters” of Trump could stop obstructing our efforts to sink this clown and allow another GoP nominee to rise. Before it’s too late. Instead of going into reflexively defensive rants about Hillary (who isn’t necessarily running against Trump, yet).
You are spot on with this post. The only possible way the evil witch of the left wins is if the republican establishment plays games at the convention.
A possible temporary loss. The Dems win the long game if Trump wins, period. The GoP will have nominated a single-payer, planned-parenthood, don’t-touch-entitlement (so don’t do crap about the debt) candidate who, oh yeah, explicitly says he’ll support the expansion of torture while ordering our troops to kill women and children (and they’ll do what he says…if they know what’s good for them.). GoP fractures.
And what a politician says in order to get elected is ALWAYS what they do if they are elected. Oh I know you are smarter than this. Contrast that with Hillary’s actual record of crimes and lies for the past 23 years she’s been in the public eye. It almost doesn’t matter who the republicans run against Hillary everyone needs to vote against her. We KNOW what she will do. We can only speculate on what a Trump or whomever would do.
And what a politician says in order to get elected is ALWAYS what they do if they are elected. Oh I know you are smarter than this.[/quote]
If one HAS to promise torture and killing civilians to get nominated, while promising not to touch entitlements (in the GoP, of all places)…Then Hillary’s victory is the least of our concerns.
Yes. And THEN afterwards, the GoP nominee. Hopefully, if supposed non Trump supporters would stop obstructing criticism of him with knee-jerk deflections, it might not be Trump.
My gosh Sloth politicians have been promising things to people forever in order to get elected. You and I both know Trump is running as a populist. The people love to hear that we are finally going to get the terrorists as Obama has been so ineffective in doing so. Sure he went too far in saying that he would go after those family members who were complicit in any such attacks. But there are far worse things than throwing out such campaign rhetoric. Things such as allowing the Ambassador of Libya and other military personal to be killed. Running a “foundation” which is nothing more than a criminal influence peddling organization and of course Hillary is under investigation by the FBI. Open your eyes my friend. No one wants Trump to become President less than I do. But, HILLARY CLINTON?
Look first at the devil that you know before you attack the potential devil that you don’t know.
My gosh Sloth politicians have been promising things to people forever in order to get elected…[/quote]
You just whistled right past how Trump threatens to fracture the GoP and bolster the Democratic party. If the party needs to have a frontrunner promise to torture people and murder civilians that same party is going to see a mass exodus of people who simply can’t go along with the ride. Especially when those same people also favor doing something about the debt (which requires entitlement reform that Trump is against) and free-er markets (Trump is protectionist, personally favors single-payer).