Things Trump was never going to do:
1- Self fund his campaign
2- Avoid the influence of Goldman Sachs
3- Oppose higher taxes
4- Oppose a minimum wage hike
Things Trump will probably never do:
1- Build a wall
2- Oppose gun control
3- Protect lives of unborn children
Things Trump may never do: oppose single-payer healthcare.
It’s time to stop asking me if I am still #NeverTrump and start asking Trump what he is never going to do.
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But Brian, he’s a Republican and we have to coalesce around him because, ah, ah, Hillary Clinton bad and he’s a Republican. The heck with him not being a conservative or holding values and positions anywhere near being considered conservative. Forget the fact that he has held positions in this primary that have been as leftwing as Bernie Sanders, and flip flopped more than the fish at the end of the video for Epic by Faith no More, he talks tough on illegal immigration and he’s a Republican, or at least on the ballot as a Republican.
Don’t you see Brian, people like you, myself, Craig Maxwell, and others, who have integrity and will not vote for someone just because he’s a Republican nominee are the bad guys. If you don’t support Trump, you’re not a real Republican. Principles be damned.
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I can still be convinced to vote for Trump but only Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell will be able to convince me. If they make very public statements that they will:
1- aggressively defend the Constitution from an overreaching Executive Branch
2- start the impeachment process the first time an Executive circumvents the Constitution
I might vote for Trump.
If Justin Amash or Raul Labrador were House Speaker and Mike Lee, Rand Paul, or Ted Cruz were Senate Majority Leader, I could vote for Trump
Schadenfreude- Thy name is Rostra/RPSDC.
“Don’t you see Brian, people like you, myself, Craig Maxwell, and others, who have integrity and will not vote for someone just because he’s a Republican nominee are the bad guys. If you don’t support Trump, you’re not a real Republican. Principles be damned.”
Perhaps now, all of you that hurled the unsubstantiated homophobe/intolerant/narrow-minded invectives and pummeled and ridiculed “those Social Conservatives”, many staunch and longtime GOP supporters within the RPSDC and elsewhere, many former CC and EC members, who “have integrity and will not vote for someone just because he’s a Republican nominee” might now understand why many of us struggled with voting for another RPSDC-endorsed nominee with whom we could not consciously support. The cost was running former dye-in-the-wool GOP supporters and fundraisers out on rails and many, who blog on this site, hurled the loudest, ugliest, and most divisive ad hominem attacks for the very same stance now invoked by many here.
You wanted a “New Generation” Republican…Perhaps it’s time many of you “evolve” and” get on board.”
I’m #NeverHillary, so my choice is clear. A vote either not cast or against the GOP nominee is a fait accompli that Hillary WILL be the next president- And she will determine the next Supreme Court nominee(s), vetoes on every/any Republican proposed budget, invoke whatever progressive, rights-diminishing Executive Orders she can, and advance the same failed FP/NS decisions from her time as SECSTATE and in support of BHO’s abhorrent anti-American actions and policies.
If that is acceptable to you, then by all means, quit, leave, stomp, cry, throw that tantrum…Trump has demonstrated he has done more to open the tent many of you proclaimed was imperative for the GOP’s survival (more votes cast than any other GOP nominee).
…or, we can rally, take a stance, and ensure HRC never, ever, sees the inside of the Oval Office in an official capacity again.
There are months left to November, but right now the math for me stands this way:
– There is a 100% chance I will not like what Hillary does on every issue I care a lot about.
– There is a 50% chance Trump will do what he says on issues like gun control and the Supreme Court.
– There is a 100% chance that the next president will be Trump or Hillary.
– There is a 0% chance that the people in the Republican Party and/or conservatives (who did not have enough votes to stop Trump from within the Republican Party) will have enough votes to get anyone else elected.
But they do have enough votes to make sure Hillary wins. Which means they will be responsible for me not liking 100% of what the Executive Branch does over the next 8 years and probably the Judicial branch over the next 30 years.
At least if we (they) vote for Trump, they can say they really tried.
Still, I get it. I am not jumping up and down over Trump.
I wonder if San Diego Republican leaders reluctance to support Trump has to do with Hillary being a bit more Hawkish.
America has about 335,000,00 people.
Clinton and Trump is the best we can do.
Pitiful, just pitiful.
I am SO glad I gave up on the Presidential race a long time ago. When I said that I was vowing out in Feb….I meant it. I decided to concentrate on local races where it can really make a difference.
Spot on, Monica! I’ve been saying the same thing. “We” need to concentrate on the local and regional races — and the many propositions. We’ll have a full plate this November.
The Presidential race is lost — regardless who wins.
“I’m #NeverHillary, so my choice is clear. A vote either not cast or against the GOP nominee is a fait accompli that Hillary WILL be the next president”
Unfortunately an example of the absence of great ideas in the “conservative” movement. A philosophy which states that in a contest between Marx and Sanders we are obligated to vote for Sanders.
What can we expect in the way of reform from such a “conservative” idea? What reform has this philosophy produced?
The fusing of the term “founding father” with support for Trump is not lost on me. The fusion of two incompatible ideas that underlies much of what we read on Rostra – the conservative idea of a Creator Law Giver vs Man as law giver.
I am going to make a wild theological guess that when my life is judged by the only One I am concerned about being judged by that it will be according to His law and not how well I upheld a nation in the Western Hemisphere’s incompatible ideas that existed for a temporary period in history.
Another reason I am a liberty Republican.
My two cents? When given a choice between two evils choose a third – the exit. (Robert Higgs)
#FeelTheJohnson!
Riddle me this new passengers on the Trump Train; I am assuming you are all California voters and know that your vote is irrelevant in the general election, then why are you going to still vote for him? Your vote is not going to determine if he beats Hillary in any way shape or form.
Why not vote for Gary Johnson?
Best case scenario, a miracle in American politics happens and you were a part of it. We end up with a president who may not be perfectly in line with your beliefs, but he is predictable and won’t get us into world war 3. He is a better option than Hillary or Trump if you really believe in a fiscal conservative president.
2nd best case scenario, the hate for Hillary and Trump drives voters to Johnson and we send the presidential election to the Senate. We will likely end up with an establishment hack like Trump who is still better than Hillary, but not as liberal or reactionary as Trump. We hold our noses until 2020…
Second to worse case scenario, Trump wins, does a crap job, and winds up like Hoover, keeping Rs out of office for many years to come. And you voted for him!!!!
Worse case scenario, Hillary wins anyway and YOUR CALIFORNIA VOTE STILL DID NOT DO A DARN THING TO STOP HER. Your franchise meant nothing…
or maybe you voted for Johnson and at least made a statement about your principles or about the horrific circus Republican leadership has invited to this election cycle.
Please, why would you vote for Trump in the general, or any candidate that is not your favorite, when you live in a winner take all, deep blue state???????
How is HRC any different than Bush ?
Only days after sewing up the GOP Presidential nomination, Trump has flipped on two major issues — now supporting a higher federal minimum wage and higher taxes.
I’m curious. At what point will Republicans finally realize that they’re nominating a Democrat to lead the GOP?
Trump’s tax cut plan was all patent Donald Trump BS. “The Art of the Deal” in action.
Richard,
This is all a “Reality Show” to Trump. In order to win the first round, he needed to appeal to the right-wing nativist base of the Republican Party. Now that he is in the finals, he needs to appeal to a completely different electorate. Trump has no core beliefs other than winning and to him that means nothing he said in the primary actually matters. It will be interesting to see if the voters let him get away this, especially his now defunct pledge to “self-finance” his campaign.
“Another reason I am a liberty Republican.”
By your actions, or inactions, sending HRC to become the next president, then you jeopardize further our liberty and our Republic….and that makes you neither. While you await your next judgment, you forgo any practicality of the here and now. You will have contributed to what many are realizing is the greater of two evils…exit if you must…but where shall you go? Canada?
Supreme Court nominees alone over the next eight years that HRC would nominate vs. Trump will erode both liberty and the Republic, many suggesting in irrevocable ways. Every R budget will be surely vetoed and the expanse of horrible FP policies and decisions (especially Libya, Syria, Iran, China and Russia) by Ms. Clinton places both liberty and our Republic in greater vulnerability geo-strategically raising the bar for more danger to our forces and invitations to adversarial hegemonic aspirations by China, Russia, Iran.
Exit, and thus enable the greater evil to prevail, if you must- Please take your conscience with you.
Bitter conservative political elites can not stomach voting for Trump… spare me the stupidity.
My question is where was all this staunch conservative sentiment when John McCain and Mitt Romney were nominated?
Richard and Hypocrisy, I couldn’t agree more.
“My question is where was all this staunch conservative sentiment when John McCain and Mitt Romney were nominated?”
Dealing with this question..,
Where was all this staunch conservative sentiment when the Bushes and Dole were nominated?
Some of us were screaming..maybe not as loud as many are today
Another difference is that Hillary, who has already bragged about how she plans to exceed Obama with extra-Constitutional actions will be supported by the alphabet media, many in Congress, and 1/2 of the Supreme Court. Were Trump to undertake similar extra-Constitutional actions he will be opposed by all of the above AND some Republicans.
Our Republic and its Constitution are safer with Trump!
Be a patriot and vote Trump….better than an 8-year monarchy.
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Imagine a scenario where the Republican party all but surrendered the internet to the likes of Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerburg and Eric Schmidt. This is the result.
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“Our Republic and its Constitution are safer with Trump!”
I almost see that. Paul Ryan placated me with his opposition to Trump. The upside to a Trump Presidency is a Congress which took back the Constitutional authority it abdicated over the past two decades.
Alas, Paul Ryan is squarely is the cross hairs of the TVGOP