The G.O.P. is officially in a State of Civil War. The Union is Dissolved.
Which Side is What? That is as Contested as the Nomination.
Posted on 03/28/2016 1:55:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
We must resist the Socialist Democrats’ effort to forge, with the MSM’s aid, an irreparable split between us.
Full disclosure: I voted for Cruz in the Texas primary. If Trump is the GOP nominee, I’ll vote for him in November.
I will not approach, in either case, the voting booth as I voted for McRomney, with a pinched nose. But with zeal. If my car won’t start, I’ll walk to the polling booth – only because I’m too old to run.
Today, some Trump supporters are feeling surrounded by three camps: one from the GOPe’s Machiavellian efforts to find a third way other than Trump or Cruz; by Slithery Hillary’s sustained but weakening campaign, inevitably touted by rigged polling; and by that Anglo army of Comrade Bernie supporters made up of aging Democrat Socialists aligned with college-aged snowflakes who were never taught the definition and history of socialism by the progressive academies of “higher education.”
Meanwhile, for Trump and Cruz, the other is the immediate adversary – as it should be at this point. But we will all pass this point.
As the interim mud wrestling between the two leading Republican candidates continues, let’s remember we share a serious and common adversary who will, eventually, require us to unite: the final POTUS candidate of the Democrat Socialist Party....
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Sorry, I will never vote for Trump. He is nothing more than Obama is different clothes.
The G.O.P. is officially in a State of Civil War. The Union is Dissolved.
Which Side is What? That is as Contested as the Nomination.
After seeing about 100 of the most disgusting vile tabloid type threads this weekend? Hmmmmmmmmmm.......
Assuming the nominee will be Cruz or Trump, I’m right there with you. a vote for the (R) candidate is the only choice to work on keeping the (D) candidate from being elevated to nation-destroyer-in-chief.
If the RNC pulls some shenanigans and sneaks in a weasel in a brokered convention, all bets will be off and we’ll see people on our side staying home in droves.
I will vote the most effective way I can to keep hillary out, and that means voting for the GOP nominee. I voted Cruz in Primary, if Trump wins the nomination, I will not enjoy voting for him, but I will do it. Voting for someone with only some conservative values is better than electing someone with none.
That’s an astounding statement. Particularly since all the evidence points to the opposite.
You might want to get your head out of your @$$ before you suffocate to death.
What about if it’s neither Trump nor Cruz.
There are only two political lanes, conservative and establishment. Currently Trump is in the conservative lane because his issues are 100% conservative and he has no ties to the establishment, doesn’t owe them anything including his political future.
Cruz and Kasich share the establishment lane. Cruz has 100% conservative views but is now solidly in with establishment money, organization, endorsements, etc. Cruz would owe the GOP for this race then depend on them for his next race. Though since Cruz doesn’t belong to the club, the GOP would probably sue Ted for natural born citizen eligibility if he got that far.
Kasich has always been establishment, 9 terms in House then to Lehman Bros where he got 1/2 million a year for selling access. He’s pro-amnesty, for gun control, 100% in for TPP/Obamacare and the list goes on. He is totally funded by GOP and GOP donors.
Thus voters have to pick a lane, no other way to see it.
But I will not vote for Romney or some other GOPee fool if they steal the nomination from the clear front-runners Trump and Cruz!
Or as I've been saying, better a guy who'll appoint like Reagan (O'Connor meh, Scalia yay) rather than appoint 100% Brennans and Sotomayors. It's just that, dangit, you KNOW Cruz appointees would be absolutely solid young Borks.
I really don’t understand why Cruz was so willing to work with the GOP-e; disavowing the GOP-e would have gotten him a nice position in the Trump Administration and would have almost guaranteed him the next nomination. Instead, Cruz was willing to give disgraced GOP-e hacks like Neil Bush a platform.
He’s still not going to win the nomination (at a brokered convention, the GOP-e stabs him in the back), and he’s pissed off enough conservatives that he probably wouldn’t get the nomination in 2024 or the next viable year. He did a lot of good before the nomination, then he completely destroyed his own legacy because he was so desperate to get the nomination this year.
At this point, he’d be lucky to keep his Senate seat.
Needs to stop. Fuel pored on the floor by the GOP-e.
I want to agree with this sentiment, but I find it difficult to do so. The reason why is that I don’t believe Trump views the situation as they described in the article i.e., a common enemy to be defeated.
The reason being is that while Trump offers policy prescriptions on certain issues, there’s no sense of an overarching ideology which views the left and democrats as enemies.
Trump’s candidacy is based on a technocratic understanding of politics. We need smarter people in government, better deals, etc. His is not an ideological stance. Consider the veto of the religious liberty bill in Georgia which we are all up in arms about today. A person with a technocratic reading of politics or the culture does not sign that bill.
A Governor Trump in Georgia would look at the pros and cons of that bill, determine that economically it does more harm than good based on corporate boycott threats and vetoes the bill. Believing he is doing the most good for the most people in that state. Disregarding the ideological component.
Hear! Hear!
The scars already run deep it now depends on how the winners and the losers take the nomination, but if the present posting pattern holds to form there will certainly be a group who will at best be unmotivated and at worse openly hostile to the nominee. It truly does remind me of the mood of both sides after the Civil War.
I agree with all you said.
I don’t understand why he has done this. His easiest path to the presidency was as Trump’s VP.
Trump won’t run for a second term IMO... President Cruz would have been his second term.
If Trump is not the nominee, I walk away, no vote ever again in any election...
Trump or NONE!!!
I believe the fix is in with the communists Democrats with the blessing of the GOPe. Trump or Cruz will not be the nominee. You can take that to the bank. The will of the people be damned, we are slaves to the power structure of corrupt Washington.
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