Posted on 03/04/2016 5:20:08 AM PST by Kaslin
Mitt Romney's speech against Donald Trump is not likely to win many converts. Romney's remarks will just further vindicate and entrench Trump supporters.
Romney, though a good man, is quintessentially GOP establishment and has shown, by his speech, that he still doesn't understand the role he and his colleagues have played in bringing about the Trump surge.
During campaign season, these guys always seem to get it. They profess to understand how destructive President Obama's agenda is, but once they're elected, they lose their will to fight, which makes many conservatives believe they didn't believe their own rhetoric in the first place.
I know, Republicans tell us that the GOP leadership has done all it can to stop Obama but there's only so much a congressional majority can do. That's also what they said about congressional minorities when they were a minority.
Regardless, they haven't presented their case to the American people with conviction during the past seven years, except in the runup to elections. They didn't point out Obama's evil intentions and often denounced those who did. They didn't rally around Ted Cruz, Mike Lee or a handful of others who tried to stymie Obama. Instead, they chose to ridicule and marginalize these fighters.
Even to this day, the establishment fails to understand the legitimate concerns millions of Americans have over illegal immigration. Establishment types arrogantly and unfairly slander border hawks as nativists, suggesting their opposition to open borders is race-based.
It's not about race; it's about our national sovereignty, the rule of law, protecting jobs, protecting Americans against criminal elements and jihadis, and stanching an invasion of people who will further burden our welfare state -- not assimilate, not embrace the American idea -- and vote almost solely Democratic.
A sovereign nation must control its borders and encourage immigrants to assimilate and embrace the unique American experiment. But Democrats are for flooding the borders for all the wrong reasons, and large swaths of the Republican establishment have affirmatively aided and abetted them.
We've watched as Republicans have allowed many of Obama's budgets to sail through under the radar, on the pretense of just waiting for the next election. Our guys don't even talk about entitlement reform anymore, though they were telling us just a few years ago that we were about to go bankrupt.
The Republican Party has been so tone-deaf to these real concerns that some Republican voters are furious enough to have chosen a wildly flawed solution in Donald Trump. One person on Twitter said she is so disgusted she is going to vote Democratic for the first time in 40 years.
It is tragic that true conservatives, however, are being lumped in and punished for the betrayals of centrist Republicans. Trump supporters are adamant that no elected official escape the blame. Their solution is to burn the house down and rebuild it around Trump, even though they can't be sure what he'd do when elected.
People wonder why they would turn to someone like Trump. The GOP, after all, has stood for moral principles, manners and adult behavior, and Trump seems to exhibit none of those things. In many ways, he is the opposite of conservative principles, in demeanor, lifestyle and his personal conduct in the campaign.
But in their disgust at the Republican establishment, they are throwing out true conservatives and also certain conservative principles and values, as if all of conservatism has been tainted by a party that betrayed its base.
How else does it make sense that even valid, troubling criticisms of Trump seem to help him more than hurt him?
I think it's because this disaffected class of voters wants someone unorthodox enough to break the rules, someone brash enough not to be deterred by the niceties that have prevented establishment Republicans from distinguishing themselves from Obama in bold colors rather than pale pastels. They're seem not only not offended but invigorated by someone who'll hurl profanities and refuse to apologize even when he owes an apology, because they think it's going to take someone like that to resist pressure to betray them once he's elected.
And though the establishment has finally awakened to the intensity of the discontentment among the party rank and file, it still doesn't believe the angst is legitimate. The establishment is still in bitter denial and wouldn't support a person advocating many of Trump's ideas even if he were a paragon of moral rectitude.
If establishment Republicans were the least bit repentant about their betrayals, truly believed in the conservative principles embodied in their party's platform and were realistic about stopping Trump, they'd quit posturing and unite behind Ted Cruz.
For the way to defeat Donald Trump is not to deny him a majority and steal the nomination from him at the convention; that really would be the end of the party. It is to embrace the closest thing to a Reagan conservative since Ronald Reagan, before it's too late. But truth be told, they probably hate Cruz worse than they hate Trump.
I wish Trump supporters would consider this when they wrongly lump Cruz in with the establishment, and I wish they'd simmer down long enough to recognize that Cruz represents the answer to their complaints far more than Trump -- and with none of the baggage.
After last night, I’ve lost all respect for Cruz and hope that he loses his Senate seat.
Then don’t post a stupid article from David Limbaugh. So let’s see. The leader in the race and in almost every single poll should drop out and endorse Ted Cruz? David Limbaugh is an idiot who is riding on big brother Rush’s coat tails
Kind of like putting a penny in the fuse box to get the lights back on.
I’ll summarize:
“Everyone should stop fighting and unite behind one guy. It just so happens that this is the guy I support. Complete coincidence. Really.”
There is so much mud on hillary ... Trump will have a hey day dishing all of it out... the media is afraid to.. but Trump is not afraid of anyone he might run against. Someone needs to confront hillary’s beast and dirt... That one is Trump.
When Romney and obams had that last debate, Benghazi had just happened. Romney did not mention it... he gave obama a pass and thus gave him another 4 years. Can you imagine Trump leaving that bit of worthy news unspoken that night?
Seeing Romney give that speech was sickening. I didn’t watch it but saw enough of it on the news later. There was so much in what he said that applied to him rather than Trump... the anger just mounts out here with that kind of stuff.. and they (GOP, et al) are still too ego oriented to know where and why the anger.. why Trump’s numbers continue to go up with every one of their stunts. If they understood, they’d take a different route. Dumb and prefer to stay dumb.. all the while giving the people the slap over and over. It’s suicide and they can’t see it.
When all has been lost a Reagan conservative doesnt work. I like Cruz ok but Trump has been the one, from day one ,pushing change. Cruz is far behind and falling fast. Its over for Cruz. Trump is on his way to get the delegates needed. Cruz suppoerters, should get behind Trump. He possible could help Trump and play a key role in the coming revolution of replacing the establishment with real Americans. Cruz has a decision to make, go with the American people or the establishment. I hope he chooses the people.
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Agreed.
David Limbaugh, being a Cruz supporter, really gets objective when he magnanimously suggests that all Trump supporters get behind his personal choice.
When he can convince me that Cruz is not a globalist, which he showed he is by his votes, and that he is Constitutionally eligible to run, then we can talk.
Yep, Romney is a terrible person. A true traitor to America.
I will not attack David Limbaugh, but if you switch the words Trump and Cruz, you may see how Trump supporters view the world.
David Limbaugh believes he is right and Cruz is the salvation, and the only thing he needs is TRUMP'S SUPPORTERS.
How in the hell did Trump get all those supporters?
OK, we are all too stupid to pick the candidate of our choice, so we need a lawyer from DC to tell us the best solution is another lawyer from DC... got it.
“Targeting Trump is a recent thing...”
It only started the day he announced his candidacy.
Sorry to disappoint you. His mother is a natural born US citizen, having been born and raised in Delaware, which made Ted Cruz a natural born citizen regardless where he was born. These are the facts. Live with it.
Limbaugh has lost his ever-loving mind.
Nope not voting for either of the amnesty Cubans
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At least one of them was born on US soil.
Quick go to the bathroom. You’re full of it. His mother is a natural born US citizen, having been born and raised in Delaware. That makes Ted Cruz a natural born citizen. Live with it?
Backwards logic alert !!!
The man who is winning ought to bow out to the man who is losing?
The man who can’t beat Trump will beat Hillary?
Really??
Cruz is OK but will NOT WIN THE GENERAL ELECTION and Hillary must be stopped.
Let’s flip this and have Cruz as VP on the ticket instead (with Trump President, of course).
The strategy recommended is as follows:
Both anti-establishment candidates, Trump and Cruz NEED TO UNITE and build a team to annihilate Hillary’s chances!!!
Trump on top because he has proven his ability to win!!!
Like I said in my comment in #1, if you already made up your mind who you want to vote for, than do so. Personally I don’t let anyone tell me who I should vote for.
Why would I unite behind a loser?
Cruz is backed by the same globalist a that the rest of the establishment candidates are, so it impossible to think he is not part of the establishment. He gives good talking points but structurally he can change nothing because he’s backed and owned by the same people.
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