"Thank you and Bishop Romney for this ancient Bush Trump illegal locker recording."
Posted on 10/10/2016 7:18:42 PM PDT by ProudGOP
I've been here a long time and I try not to post vanities but this election has been unlike any election I can remember.
For years, the Republican establishment has expected us to be good Republicans and support the parties nomination. I didn't like Romney but yet I voted for him and supported him because he was parties nominee and also because I did not want a second Obama term.
I absolutely couldn't stand McCain but once again I supported the parties nominee against Obama. Sarah Palin as his running mate certainly didn't hurt but I would have voted for him over Obama regardless of his VP choice.
Every election, the party expects us to support the nominee, regardless of how much or even whether we like him or her. I have always agreed with that sentiment. I know a lot of people are proponents of an alternate or third party but our election system is simply not set up that way. And to be honest, I am not a big fan of European parlimentary style systems where there are multiple parties because I think the smaller fringe parties have a disproportionate amount of power. For example, when a party like the Green party representing say 10% of the electorate can switch their support and cause a parlimentary government to change, I think that isn't a good system.
So I have always agreed with the 2 party system and I have always supported the Republican nominee. Our system, for all of its flaws, provides everyone with the choice of one candidate or the other. When the election is over, the one with the most electoral votes wins. One candidate wins, one loses but basically the candidate with the most support won. If you don't like the nominee, get involved in the primary and work to get a better one.
But this election has been different. Many people did get involved in the primary and did get a better, in their opinion, candidate. And the response from the establishment Republicans has been eye opening in their refusal to accept the parties nominee. Things were rocky in the beginning and, while I wasn't happy that Trump wasn't immediately accepted by the party establishment, they seemed to come around and it looked like they were finally uniting behind the party nominee, although probably not as enthusiastically as many of us would have liked.
It is now obvious to me, and I suspect to a lot of Republicans, that the nominee in fact did not have their support. The moment Trump's private locker-room style conversation came out, they withdrew their support. And not only did they withdraw their support, they did so in the most public way, timed to do as much damage to the Trump campaign as possible.
The hypocracy of the party leadership for years asking and expecting us to support the party nominee when, once an outsider wins the nomination, they refuse to do the same is, quite frankly, very difficult to take.
p.s. I very much regret my choice of freeper handle
Paul Ryan - SCUM. RINOS who dumped on Trump - SCUM.
Being in Northern California I will not have any opportunity to vote against any of them,being that I am in the position that all the rest of you will find yourselves in a few years down the road (IF) a “President Hitlary” opens the borders and legalizes the hordes coming in - DISENFRANCHISED.
"Thank you and Bishop Romney for this ancient Bush Trump illegal locker recording."
“I feel your pain” to quote someone.
This is bigger than Trump. This is a backlash against all the establishment, democrats and republicans. Hang in there. We aren’t going away.
Trump is a street fighter and someone not afraid of gouging out your eyes if he has to. Be strong, be optimistic. Hang in there.
Death to the Republican Party.
...it’s a start anyway
Maybe it should be Death to the Republican Party establishment.
We are going to need a new party, like Lincoln did...the establishment will not give up the GOP.
You have said what I have felt for a LONG time! I, too, held my nose and voted for the Republican nominee because I always thought whoever the Democrats picked it was NOT someone that would govern in the way I think they should. Even now - ESPECIALLY now - their platform has only grown worse and worse for America with the blatant anti-life, anti-God, anti-2nd Amendment, anti-normal marriage and time honored morality necessary for the proper working of civilization that brings glory to our Creator. Sad to say but the Republicans are going down that same path and those who WE voted in are shirking the responsibilities we entrusted to them in favor of the status quo to remain in power enjoying the perks that it brings.
If these people who represent us are refusing to abide by their pledged oath of office and are rejecting the will of the people to get behind the candidate WE picked, then we will have to reject them the very next chance we get. Whether Trump wins or loses this election, if they cannot get behind him 100% NOW then none of them should be sent back to D.C. These cowards will be helping to elect the most immoral, treasonous, dishonest and corrupt person ever to have taken the position and all we can expect of them is to assist Hilliary in destroying the greatest nation God ever allowed to exist. It SHOULD cost them greatly.
So, bravo for what you stated. I couldn't agree more!
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