Posted on 11/01/2020 6:55:59 PM PST by conservative98
I voted for Ted Cruz in the 2016 Republican primary election, left my ballot blank in the 2016 general election, and now must decide whom to vote for this year. In several ways, I find Donald Trump over the top and offensive. I have said this on air and on Twitter. He can be too hot to handle, insulting people and often making himself the issue, diverting attention from more important policy matters. Many of my Republican friends, notably women, will not vote for him, not because they are “Republicans in name only” but because the president has given them some reason to reject him.
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Biden is also offensive. His shocking allegation amid the 2012 campaign that Republicans under Mitt Romney wanted to place African Americans “back in chains” was one of the worst and lowest race baiting statements ever made, not to mention it was blatantly untrue. The media mainly gave him a pass over this. I will not. There is a lot about his conflicts of interest that we do not know because the media declines to dig into them.
Is Biden, who stated he never talked about Ukrainian energy firm Burisma with his son, lying about never meeting with its officials? Biden lied about receiving his full scholarship to law school and made false claims that he finished in the top half of his class when he finished near the bottom. He lied about his arrest in South Africa. He made false claims over pinning a Silver Star on a Navy captain despite claiming that it was the truth.
Biden is weak. He will not stand up to the left as he changed his positions with abortion and crime. He will not stand up to China. Given the fact that he conducted only one or two public events a day before the coronavirus, I have doubts in his ability to endure the burden of the presidency.
Democrats are now moving hard and fast to the left. Biden is not from the left wing of the party, but when liberals send him legislation to ban fossil fuels, create a national public option for health care, raise our taxes even higher, and redistribute income in a way that has never been done before, no one should count on his veto. He will not promise to veto packing the Supreme Court, or even turning Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia into blue states so Democrats can move onto packing the Senate.
Say what you will about Trump violating norms, he has never tried to redo the balance of power by irregular means. But his policies will last decades, no matter or, perhaps thanks to, his personality. His promises to confront China, appoint conservatives to the judiciary, and secure peace deals for Israel and the Arab neighbors are worthy of support. His policies over the economy did more to assist low income Americans with pay raises, which reduced the wealth gap far more than any idea to redistribute income. He helped people with the actions conducted in the private sector.
My choice in the 2020 general election is between a personally offensive outsider who signs good policies and a professionally offensive politician who will turn bad ideas into law. This is why I will vote for Trump.
Ari Fleischer served as the White House press secretary for President Bush from 2001 to 2003 and is now president for Ari Fleischer Communications.
What Ari fails to grasp is that in today’s political climate, it takes a guy like Trump to get things done.
They don’t need to love Trump, they just need to vote for him.
Wow, a Bushie, nonetheless.
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I find Bush more personally insulting than Trump.
Ask the average voter who Ari Fleisher is and you will get a blank look.
Yet he still believes the polls are correct in that Biden will win.
President Trump is NOT “personally offensive” - Ari should just admit he was wrong in 2016.
I’ve had enough of these #neverTrumpers - and reformed #neverTrumpers - repeating Democrat talking points that Trump is not “presidential”.
He fights back, and apparently wussies find that offensive.
I can’t even type here what I think of the whole bush family.
We will take the vote.
I voted for Cruz but then voted for Trump because Hillary is a corrupt Satanist.
But Trump is really from the Nixon Reagan Buchanan working man conservative school. He gave us great judges. Voted for him again already.
The words of a president matter. And time and time again, Donald Trump has callously used his to incite violence, stoke the flames of hatred and division, and drive us further apart.
It’s time for it to end.— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 1, 2020
Biden: Republicans under Mitt Romney want to put “y’all back in chains.” https://t.co/07BKxMDrD5— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) November 1, 2020
Then he goes and predicts a Biden landslide.
FUAF
He’s a Fox talking head now so I’ll take it.
Anyone now not calling Donald Trump “presidential” is an enemy, whether foreign or domestic.
He said by traditional measuring sticks it looks that way. But he didn’t say himself it will be a Biden landslide.
“Many of my Republican friends....will not vote for him, not because they are “Republicans in name only” but because the president has given them some reason to reject him.”
I call BS. That obviously includes the Bush cabal excluding Ari himself, and they hate him because Trump accomplished what they did not and because Trump has a rockstar like following and a 90% + approval rating within the party that they didn’t. And also because Trump has repeatedly called out their failures, their disastrous policy decisions and their general all round uselessness. But if they want to blame their dislike (meaning hatred) of Trump on his personality, they are free to do so. But everyone knows the truth.
They hate Trump because Trump has made them irrelevant, and taken the GOP away from them, and they aren’t getting it back.
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