NO...NO...a thousand times NO!!
errr...MAYBE??
Posted on 03/03/2016 2:18:02 PM PST by Jeff Head
Mitt
March 3, 2016.
I am writing this with quite a bit of consternation.
I am not sure you will see it, much less read it. But I hope you will. Please forgive the length in advance.
I watched your speech today about Donald Trump, and I have to say, I was disappointed.
I watched you in 2012 accept Donald Trump's endorsement in Las Vegas. You said glowing things about the man. You were clearly glad to get his endorsement and talked about his success in business and that he was someone who saw the dangers our nation faces oversees.
Now, you return that favor with today's diatribe? As if though you never said those things?
This is not honorable. You could easily have met with Trump privately and talked this over. I have no doubt he would have made the time for you.
But instead you chose to make a public spectacle, and quite honestly, and spoken as a person who has had great respect for you...you came off looking like a stooge for the Republican Party elite.
Donald Trump does indeed come across as a crass, egotistical, and often profane man. But he was in 2012 as well. People know this about the man. It has been apparent for a long time, and particularly for the last six months as he has gone through this process and is energizing more and more voters.
Where was your speech then?
I know you will probably not like to hear what I have to say. But I think enough of you to know that you know that one of the qualities of any good leader is an ability to listen. Particularly to listen to things that may not be what they want to hear, but could be what they need to hear.
That is true in friendships. That is true in marriages. That is true as a father. That is true as a Mayor or Governor. That is true of an officer or squad leader in the military. That is true in Church positions. It is true of a group manager or CEO in a business. It is true in any position of leadership.
The fact is, Donald Trump’s rise in this election season is the product of a very broken GOP leadership.
This has gone on most of my adult life. A great exception was during the Reagan years where another outside the beltway individual, whom the establishment scoffed at, but who was as true as he could be to the people who elected him...and who, because of those qualities, delivered the largest Republican victories for the Presidency in my life time, and probably in all history. That’s simply the truth…I know there are a lot of details that went into it…but it is the truth nonetheless.
It is true that Donald Trump is not Ronald Reagan.
But Trump is a person who speaks directly, and says what most of us have thought when it comes to things like immigration, when it comes to the unbridled importation of immigrants into the country who may be a risk, when it comes to Obama Care, when it comes to the Iranian deal, and numerous other initiatives, including his tax and corporate tax plans. It is true that Donald Trump is not politically correct.
But the people are frustrated and they are angry because of career and establishment politicians and their attitudes. They care more about fixing the country than they do about political correctness or “reverence,” for broken leadership.
Trump is tapping into the real frustration of the people.
And you know what, despite the irreverence…or maybe because of it… the people believe he will do what he says, establishment be hanged.
Historically it’s not the first time. Andrew Jackson was sent to Washington DC in his day to “route the vipers out.” People may argue about how effectively he did or did not do…but from time to time, if the “go along to get along,” attitude festers too much, it needs lancing for the good of the nation.
Some may not fathom it, but the more establishment types attack Trump, the bigger the flames will be stoked. The people will properly view it as the establishment, omnce again rejecting them and they will simply be all the more determined to put someone in there who will not do so. Some may not "get" that...but it is true nonetheless.
Maybe a personal example from my own career will help you understand it.
At a former job, at one of our remote facilies, we had a couple of employees who ran the place. They we unbelievably good at what they did. But they were absolutely blue collar and not "spit and polished." They were what the management types felt was irreverent and they were profane. They were both raised in such an environment.
I was given the task of working with them with the warning that it would be next to impossible because of these qualities.
You know what I found? I went there with an open mind...determined to live out Jesus Christ's golden rule. Not as a goody two-shoes of some type, but too simply work with them and get the job done.
I worked with them...I listened to their language, I listened to their frustrations with management whom they felt always looked down their nose at them.
I found that they were unbelievable talented at what they did...which is why management told me was the only reason they kept them around.
Over time, I found these two men, despite their rough exterior, their profanity, and their ways, to be gems...to be diamonds in the rough.
They were honest. I have never heard them be anything but brutally honest.
They were loyal. Once they learned I was out there to work with them and get the job done, they would bend over backwards not only to do their part...but to help me do mine.
The listened well. They did not here me cursing and eventually, they asked me about it. I told them is was not my place to tell them how to talk in their plant…but that I for myself did not use such language. You know what? They honestly tried to lessen their own profanity. Now, they were not real good at it…but they clearly, consciously tried and that endeared them to me.
Over a ten year period, they became my friends.
Many in the larger office, despite my own protestations and testimony to the contrary, still looked down their noses at them and would not open their minds to them.
But I found that if I needed help on a cold night and needed to call someone to come to my assistance, that the more spit and polished people, particularly those that looked down their nose at those two individuals, were somehow not available to help. I am sure they had their reasons and that those reasons were probably more than adequate justification. But guess who was willing to drop what they were doing at a moment’s notice and help? You got it…those two supposedly irreverent, profane, no good guys at that remote location.
There’s an important life lesson in that…at least there was for me.
Sometimes we need to look beyond the party line.
Sometimes God in Heaven puts people in our path who may be indeed rough around the edges. Who may be irreverent and profane in our eyes and ears...but whom He has put there for his reasons, and to maynbe do some hard work. Who underneath all of that are really good people. But we will never know if we taek such views of them and do not try and get to know them.
It's not like they were aliens. It's not like they were mortal enemies. They were just Americans trying to make a living for themselves and their familes.
I do not know Donald Trump well enough to make that judgement. But I do hear what his daughters say. They say he is rough on the outside, but that there is a different man underneath all of that. There probably is.
Mitt, to close, I am a dyed in the wool Ted Cruz supporter and intend to support him until he either wins the nomination, or until he drops out.
But I tell you this...if Donald Trump wins the nomination I will support him 100% against the absolutely corrupt Hillary Clinton who is promising to double down on Obama's disastrous policies. I will support him 100% against the open socialist Bernie Sanders, who though himself is very honest about what he is...is nonetheless honest about wanting to create an ideology and government form that will simply put the pedal to the metal in terms of Obama's policies.
THAT is what we need to unite against.
If Trump wins...and it looks like he will, and it looks like he will do so with an absolute majority of the delegates...THAT Is how we unite. We stand against the far greater evil.
I intend to do that.
In the end, I believe most Americans are tired enough of the political establishment, and educated enough to see what the goal is here.
Sincerely,
Jeff Head
Emmett, ID
March 2016
See the following links for more of my messages to all Americans:
Donlad Trump Phenomenon
Black and Latino Americans: For God's Sake Wake Up!
My Oath to the Constitution as a US Citizen
Mass Shootings and Gun Control
My Message on Islamic Terrorism
The Boston Marathon Terror Bombing
Sharia Law must be outlawed in the United States
Fast & Furios and the Obama Administration
Ferguson Missouri and False Narratives
Secure our Southern Border
I’m going to watch that tonight.
Ooooooh... a lot of folks think Hillary will walk off with it, but again this is before the two have really exchanged a meaningful word.
Donald worked with Democrats most of his life... but secretly? I think he loathed it. It was part of the New York scene, if you didn’t want it the only option was to leave New York and that would be impractical.
Every single misdeed that Democrats did to Donald (including strong arming him into donating to various odious causes) is probably going to come back, just like the proverbial karma.
Ever see an 80% popular presidential vote for someone? We might, with Donald.
>>FYI...I had to write this.
Very well written and very true. It represents all of us that support Trump. At this point in time, saving America from the entrenched political class has to be our primary focus. Fixing conservatism only works if there is a nation left to fix.
Excellent Post!
There have been so many really great posts over the past couple weeks...epic posts.
We may need to compose a book of them ;)
Eh, at least a thread :)
See post 77
Very well said.
As I pointed out rather pointedly, if crudely, to a fellow who says he was sworn to give his life for the Constitution (even though strictly speaking that only means his enlisted service). Gotta have a country to carry it out! Otherwise it really was only a hunk of paper and what a piteous thing to die for.
I am watching the ABC news Romney speech highlights. Romney is a liar. He is trying to impact the debate—just like he tried to impact the Super Tuesday elections.
Romney is a classless establishment hack...True colors noted. Question is what will all the current Cruz supporters who were anti Romney do now that Romney has endorsed Cruz? folks who hated Romney.
(Thank you)
When I saw that it was 40+ minutes, I thought I’d just flip through it.
I ended up being glued to the screen for the whole thing.
His pilot has an amazing dedication to his boss and his job and admits that his boss accepts no less than that when it comes to his employees. I truly do think he’ll demand that same professionalism of his advisors and Cabinet.
Donald Trump has told us how he plans to fix this country. That in and of its self will make a huge difference in the DC establishment's hold on power. What he won't say but given the man he appears to be, I think he fully intends to clean up DC corruption and that is what the ultra elite and the corrupt politicians really fear. Trump can't currently divulge exactly all that he intends to do, thus his avoiding the term corrupt when describing those in DC. He instead stays with the words incompetent and misguided. However, once he's in the WH many of them could very likely be under indictment within months of Jan 20, 2017. Hopefully anyway.
Under indictment, or else warned in no uncertain terms to leave and never be seen east of the Potomac again.
I hope so. I also hope that Trump is vindictive enough to see justice done.
I did not hear Romney endorsing Cruz or anyone else specifically.
He said that people should vote for Rubio in FL, for Kasich in OH, and for Kasich, Rubio, or Cruz wherever else voters might think they can win.
Basically he is simply trying to split the vote all the way to the convention in the hopes of denying the delegates to Trump and thus having a brokered convention where the GOPe can decide who becomes the nominee.
You’re a good man, Jeff.
Trust me, if Cruz had caught fire like Trump has, he would have said the same kind of things (nuanced) against Cruz.
I voted for Mitt, but only because the other choice was beyond comprehension (the bamster). Had he had the common sense to attack the bamster, he might have won. I can truthfully say, I would have preferred that, but if I ever saw Mitt, I would want to punch his lights out and let him know just how dishonest I think he is, how bad a candidate he was, and what a horrible thing he is doing to the GOP base and his own reputation, what little there is of it.
What a seemingly small souled, petty little man he has become.
Go Trump. Go Cruz. End this nightmare of a party elite!
I am a Cruz supporter.
Fact is, if the GOPe is successful with this against Trump...the next person they will attack is Cruz.
The GOPe cannot stand either man...and for obvious reasons. They fear them.
>>As I pointed out rather pointedly, if crudely, to a fellow who says he was sworn to give his life for the Constitution (even though strictly speaking that only means his enlisted service).
Yeah. Those “I swore and oath and it never expired” people are annoying. If it never expired, then they are still under the UCMJ. No thanks! My oath expired at EAOS! But I’m still an American and I fight for the homeland now on my own terms.
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