Posted on 11/08/2016 8:09:26 AM PST by servo1969
I admire Prager for his sanity. Medved, not so much.
This country has been in a functional interregnum for 8 years, IMO. There has been someone who has pretended to be President (The King, Le Roi, His Majesty, The Czar, blah blah blah)but it’s been nothing but lawlessness with respect to the US Constitution, and anarchy in the way its agencies oppress us - dearly.
Drain the swamp? Great idea, but the need is there still to suck up all the muck and mire, filth, turds and toxic waste that still doesn’t go down the drain. Not nearly enough - it has to be full cleansing, like a Super Fund cleanup, but in earnest and for reals.
Win or lose today we need to make sure that we purge the GOP of the never-trumpers. They are disloyal and are willing to sacrifice the party for their own ego.
I’m going to purge myself of the GOP, much easier to accomplish.
I have no use for these people, and there is no reason to support their ***damned party.
Never Trumpers simply aren’t leaders.
They are the flock of the flustered.
Let me just say what I said to my little sister when she asked me what I thought:
If Trump becomes President things may go bad or they may go quite well. It remains to be seen.
If Hillary becomes President things are going to go very bad, no doubt whatsoever. It’s not even a question of ‘if’ - only how soon and how bad.
That’s the choice before us.
I had no problem explaining my decision to vote for Trump - and in doing so vote for America - to my daughters. And I felt no need to resort to the "lesser evil" argument in order to do so.
Trump wasn't my first choice but you go to war with the army you have and he quickly became my only choice. I have become well acquainted with the concept of "insufficiently conservative" - to some, practically no one can ever possibly measure up. And many have examined Donald Trump and found him wanting. But there exists in him a combination of pragmatism and force of character and courage that I believe is exactly what our nation needs most - especially after nearly sixteen years of mealy-mouthed nitwits.
All in all a good essay from Prager.
“I admire Prager for his sanity. Medved, not so much.”
I agree. Medved cannot tell the difference between good and evil. Same with Beck and others.
Exactly, the Flight 93 argument. Hard to argue with. Fortunately, I’ve been an unabashed supporter since he and Melania descended the escalator. No one ever had to persuade me. Good job.
It’s funny what the ‘lesser evil’ has devolved into for Republicans during this election cycle. It used to be abortion and even the death penalty question among Catholics. Apparently not any longer! It’s prezel logic now.
Now I don’t even know what the ‘lesser evil’ would be for the NeverTrumpers who are Republicans. They just do not like Trump (even before accusations and audio tape) and I think it’s because he goes against their common wisdom and isn’t ‘pure’ enough.
"I am not among those who fear the people. They...are our dependence for continued freedom. And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds...our people...must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they (the British) now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers....This example reads to us the salutary lesson that private fortunes are destroyed by public, as well as by private extravagance. And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from the principle in one instance, becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the 'bellum omnium in omnia,' which some philosophers...have mistaken for the natural, instead of the abusive, state of man. And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." - Thomas Jefferson
If you live in a closed primary state it’d probably make more sense to change party registration so you can have some control over the kind of lunatics emerging on the left. That might be the best long term strategy
Never Trumpers are BETA MALES, some even Omega males and females. Alpha Males are SCARY to Beta males and intimidating!!
Both groups are motivated by personal conviction.
One group is guided by moral conviction.
They refuse to endorse a man who has lived a morally reckless life and frequently bragged about it.
The other group is guided by political conviction.
They are center-left Republicans, who support most of the Democratic Party agenda.
Win or lose, the GOP will not exist as a coherent political party after 2016.
Medved is a Krauthammer
Social lib
The New Republic bred so many neocons
Medved is a Krauthammer
Social lib
The New Republic bred so many neocons
Medved is a Krauthammer
Social lib
The New Republic bred so many neocons
The never-Trump crowd is equal parts warmongers, globalists, and self-important elitist snots like Goldberg.
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