FreeTrumpers after the Donald's Defeat.
Posted on 03/03/2016 4:52:15 AM PST by LouD
Gratuitous Hatred Is Destroying Republicans — Just as It Did the Ancient Israelites By Dennis Prager — March 1, 2016 I have been a radio talk-show host for 33 years, nationally syndicated for 18. I have never experienced anything similar to what I am experiencing now. Until recently, the only hate mail I ever received was from a small number of people on the left. The major reason for this, I am convinced, is that I don’t yell at callers and I treat callers who disagree with respect.
Reading my e-mails these days is a brand-new experience. I receive hate mail, sometimes laced with obscenities, from Republicans. Most of it comes from Trump supporters, even though whenever I explain my opposition to Trump, I also explain that I understand why so many people support Trump, and even though I ask anti-Trump listeners to respect these Trump supporters.
To show how widespread the hatred among Republicans is, here are excerpts from an e-mail sent by a Cruz supporter in Michigan. He was livid at my having suggested that Cruz consider announcing that he will now back Rubio in order to give Republicans a unified opposition, which is the only chance to stop Trump. I might add that I have said many times that if I could simply appoint a Republican president, it would be Ted Cruz, since he is a true conservative and he doesn’t care whether people love him. However, I believe that Rubio – at least until this weekend and his imitation of Trump’s high-school-level personal insults – has been the Republican with the best chance of defeating Hillary Clinton.
The listener’s e-mail read in part:
Dennis, I can’t tell you how p**sed off I am at you for suggesting Cruz drop out in favor of the back stabbing, lying Rubio. You have compromised your own principles. . . . Despicable! A*****es like you . . . lie about “if I could appoint a president, it would be Cruz.” Screw you and all your Salem colleague’s [sic] for pushing the false narrative ‘Rubio is more electable.’ . . . I am no longer a faithful listener and have switched back to Rush after many years. You have lied by obfuscation, and tried to manipulate your listeners, and for that, I despise you and the other Salem turncoats. You all can go F*** yourselves!
As noted, I have quite a few e-mails from Trump supporters who, after years, even decades, of listening to my show, have decided that I am no longer worthy of being listened to. If one doesn’t support Trump, they believe, one is a traitor to the cause.
It is important to point out that I have said over and over that I would vote for Trump if he were the nominee, because it is difficult to conceive of even Trump being worse than four more years of a left-wing president and decades of a left-wing Supreme Court. But to more than a few Trump supporters that is not enough: If you don’t support Trump, you are the enemy.
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In a nutshell, the hatred and contempt some of the Republican candidates have shown one another is reflected among rank-and-file Republicans. I understand why: Most Republicans view this election as the last chance to save America from becoming the opposite of what it was founded to be. The Left has been eating away at America’s foundational values for nearly a century, and it has been largely successful. Two examples: Seventy percent of college students do not believe in freedom of speech if the speech might hurt someone’s feelings, and many young Americans support a socialist for president.
Meanwhile, many Republicans believe that only their candidate can turn things around. Therefore, Republicans who oppose their man are regarded as no different from Democrats — indeed, perhaps worse.
So this is where we stand today: Many anti-Rubio Republicans regard Rubio as a traitor on the immigration issue and therefore have contempt for his supporters. Many anti-Cruz Republicans regard Cruz as an extremist conservative who is, moreover, a misanthrope, and therefore have contempt for his supporters. And many anti-Trump Republicans – perhaps most – regard Trump as a dangerous fraud, and therefore view his supporters with contempt.
Needless to say, with these attitudes, there is little chance any Republican can win.
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So, then, despite eight years of failure under a Democratic president, and with Hillary Clinton — widely regarded as a completely untrustworthy woman who has put pursuit of money and power above the interests of her country — as the Democratic candidate, Republicans will still lose.
And Republicans will have no one to blame but themselves.
In Jewish tradition, there is a famous explanation for the destruction of the Jewish state by the Romans in 70 a.d. The ancient rabbis did not blame the Romans. They blamed the Jews. And the reason, they said, was “gratuitous hatred” — Jews hating one another for no good reason.
Bear in mind: Not all hatred is gratuitous. The hatred of evil, for example, is actually the only moral response to evil.
But gratuitous hatred is utterly destructive. And that’s what many Republicans now have for one another — and what will therefore enable today’s Romans, the Democrats, to destroy our country in the year 2016.
— Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, The Ten Commandments: Still the Best Moral Code, was published by Regnery. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com. © 2016 Creators.com
I think I see the problem!
Have a nice life!
Got a link for that?
Here was Rush yesterday, interviewed by Chris Wallace:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih6S3eLt8Fc
He declines to endorse anybody, but it's clear his favorite is Cruz.
However, he's also OK with Trump winning. "You deal with what you end up getting ... you don't win everything ... I think, in the case of Trump, there's a much bigger upside than downside ... "
I agree. And, remember, the ultimate downside is Hillary or Bernie winning!
While at the same time talking up an anchor baby and a fricking Canadian citizen!
Birthers don't matter. They are a tiny minority of cranks.
we preyed for a patriot, not a democrat supporter who now lies about his affiliation and then accuses others of being liars
there is such a huge difference
we GOT that Patriot, but it seems the deluded are following the lifelong democrat supporter with the hot wife who poses for lesbian softporn, and apparently it is considered impolite to say so.
Agreed.
I thought the whole purpose of ousting the GOPee was to get rid of precisely that: People who make deals with Democrats who who seemingly have no ideological compass.
I thought that was why we were all pissed off in the first place.
FreeTrumpers after the Donald's Defeat.
Yes, I think God is directly involved in this election, that is why it’s the best election year ever!!Somehow, I think---if God were fool enough to get directly involved in an election---He'd have given us one helluva lot better group from which to choose than Bernt Weenie Sandwich, Hilarious Rodent Clinton, Donald Lump, Ted Screws, Marco Roboto, Jabbed Bushwhack, Ben Carcinoma, Chris Crisco, Carly (Cream of) Farina, Mike Schmuckabee, Bland Paul, and Rick Sandboxer.
People who've never known or seen the United States until this year would think our Founding Fathers were named not Washington, Adams, Madison, Jefferson, et. al. but, rather, Moe, Larry, Curly, Laurel, Hardy, and Al Bundy. (Though come to think of it what greater harm could Curly wreak than the current crap--er, crop?)
H.L. Mencken was right. Democracy has indeed become
a) that form of government whereby the common people know what they want and deserve to get it, good and hard; and,
b) the fine art of running the circus from the monkey cage.
My biggest regret is that, in Nevada, where I've lived since 2007, I have only the "none of the above" option, Nevada having done away with the write-in vote before I moved here. Shame, too. I'd have been proud to write in the name Groucho Marx come November. Why? Two reasons:
1) Any man who says, Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and misapplying the wrong solutions, is clearly more presidential timbre than any of the cockroaches now running in the races.
2) Artemus Ward once observed that if we couldn't have a live man (womanperson) who amounts to anything, by all means let's have a first class corpse. And if the dead can still vote unwisely in Chicago, the living can vote wisely enough for the dead---knowing that choice couldn't possibly perform any known mischief.
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