Trump is not a conservative like the majority of us. Let’s be honest about that. However, even though he is more liberal than many of us, the reason the GOPe hates him is that they cannot control him. That is the bottom line.
Personally, I believe he will follow through on some of the things he’s talked about with great gusto, but I think that the social conservative issues, such as SC picks will go badly for Conservatives because of some of the names he’s already put out there. One more liberal on the court will overturn the US Constitution forever. That means the 1st amendment (the little that is left of it), and the 2nd amendment will be gone forever. They will do away with the Article V claus that would allow the states to call a convention to bring government back into the control of the people. Mark my words on this.
I’m not saying I would not vote for Trump if he wins the nomination, but I am saying that while we can, we need to choose the MOST conservative of all the candidates to be our nominee, and pray that if Trump does win, he chooses Cruz as his running mate, probably the only chance that we’d get a real conservative SC candidate or two.
All the super-PACS are gunning to take out Cruz and Trump. We know that they will use innuendo, or a tiny bit of truth packed into a huge lie. No candidate is totally perfect, and let’s be honest...even here on FR there’d be some who would not vote for Jesus if He were running. I’ve come to realize that the social conservative side of FR is waning significantly towards “let’s not talk about these issues, let’s not make them campaign issues, let’s just roll over pretend we don’t care about them so the left will leave us alone.”
Well, for your information, the left intends to make them front and center to portray the right as intolerant, fringe, freaks, idiots, weak. We finally have a couple candidates who are taking them on frontally, not as a reaction to their jabs. Instead of cheering them on, some are now saying that they should tone down and beginning to see Rubio as the new savior? Give me a break. The sell-out kid? He is the pretty poster boy candidate that will be a democrat in the WH. Yes, he’ll have an R behind his name, but he’ll be a democrat. I’m not so sure that he hasn’t already made such a deal with his pal Schumer. Anybody who trusts Rubio will be sorry.
Now Carson is saying that he will make a comeback that will win the nomination? Whose money has be found to help him with that? I’d say that we need to see who his “sponsors”are. He was already beginning to sound fringe before he fell in the polls, quite rightly so. He was no real conservative and I don’t see that his conservative credentials hold up to scrutiny.
America beware! Let’s not be duped again. We want a real change, but we need to do our homework. Do it well!
Well reasoned post of the day.
Very well said, Shery!
I’m not saying I would not vote for Trump if he wins the nomination, but I am saying that while we can, we need to choose the MOST conservative of all the candidates to be our nominee, and pray that if Trump does win, he chooses Cruz as his running mate, probably the only chance that we’d get a real conservative SC candidate or two.
The problem with Cruz is it is impossible to discern what is no hoper beltway theater strutting and what is genuine conservatism. Parking his better half in “wealth management” at Goldman Sachs when her career and training is in international trade is quite telling. I gave Cruz a pass for that until he campaigned with Amnesty Ryan for Obama’s TPA. After that it was easy to connect the dots. Cruz is not all he seems, IMO.
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