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Sorry #NeverTrumpers But You Don’t Get To Dismount Your High Horse Today
The Last Refuge - The Conservative Treehouse ^ | FEBRUARY 1, 2017 | SUNDANCE

Posted on 02/01/2017 4:16:28 AM PST by onyx


Sorry #NeverTrumpers, but you don”t get to dismount your high horse and celebrate the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch today. This is NOT your victory, this is ours!

There is a gobsmacking level of pontificating self-righteousness visible from the collective proletariat within your crony-conservative movement who made the decision to formulate their political argument from a position of opposition.

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Perhaps it would be different if you framed your antagonism from a position of advocacy, but that wasn’t the direction you chose. No, you chose a specific position of opposition as clearly evident within your chosen mantra “Never Trump”.

Perhaps it would be different if you ever had a come-to-Jesus moment and apologized immediately following the November election. Then again, when your opinion of your own self-importance is this high, those humble words are just as foreign as your understanding of the movement that won.

You don’t get to frame the entire construct of your argument around opposition to a team, and then claim benefit to the outcome of victory. Stay on your high-horse, move along and ride off into that proverbial land of irrelevance; you’re dead here.

Save your dismount for another defining “conservative” assembly where you can gather at CPAC again and give a standing ovation to House Speaker Paul Ryan a month after he eliminates the debt ceiling and passes a $2 trillion OmniBus spending bill, funding all of the progressive priorities you hypocritically claim to oppose; you’re good at that.

That particular circle of crazy just doesn’t sell here any longer.

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Save up your fiscal hypocrisy, you’ll need it. Because in less than two months our victorious bastard will deliver a budget that cuts a trillion “per year” out of the federal coffers…. and there is no doubt the beneficiary of your prior applause will be counting on your fiscally conservative sensibilities to protest for more spending on his behalf.

Oh, and keep your newest VAT tax construct. We’ll bring the sledgehammer, save your gilded and monogrammed tweezers for a swamp audience stupid enough to believe it – Thank you.

Oh, and don’t go getting all pearl-clutchy. This isn’t anger directed toward you, this is far, far worse. This is a very targeted and deliberate Cold Anger surrounding you and the swamp creatures of your affiliation. This sensibility never forgets.

You had a choice. You chose a direction, you lost; and you damn near lost the entire friggin’ country. Just because the team you ridiculed and attacked has overcome all opposition and gained victory, that doesn’t mean you get to backtrack now and expect the bruised and bloodied recipients to forget those who launched the stones and arrows.

Save your wine-spritzers and crust-less triangle sandwiches. We didn’t have well financed high-horses, we launched boots, well-worn boots, scratched, clawed and advanced despite your hoighty-toighty principles, intransigence and unwillingness to cuss or get your hands dirty.

Good grief, your insufferable sensibilities were frightened of frog memes, FROG MEMES!

It was our deplorable and calloused hands that volunteered, opened our piggy banks, and held firm to support each other and our vulgarian candidate against all opposition. You were part of that opposition.

While we were getting bloodied in Chicago, Virginia and California your ilk were worried about our tone and political sensibilities. But worse than that, much much worse than that, you #NeverTrumpers broke the cardinal rule of grassroots camaraderie, you aided the other side.

While our candidate was wearing a friggin’ bullet-proof-vest to deliver Justice Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, you took every opportunity to broadcast your litmus-test purist antagonism in every outlet you could muster.

Your arrogant self-righteous efforts not only didn’t help, but they actually opposed our common sense objective. You were as much a benefit to Hillary Clinton and Mitch McConnell as Media Matters and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, perhaps even more. Lest you need a reminder:

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GROUP OF CONSERVATIVES UNITE TO STOP TRUMP / THE KELLY FILE




No, today you don’t get to rejoice in victory – it isn’t yours. You are worse than the enemy. At least a righteous enemy claims opposition from outside the wire, wears identifiable uniforms and looks you in the eye. Your choice of opposition was to lay toxic land mines inside our own territory, obstruct us at every engagement, and sit back gleefully predicting our defeat.

This victory today is ours. The victory belongs to all the Donald Trump supporters who absorbed your constant ridicule as fuel. The team who battled through the ridicule of the media and the ridicule of the elitist class, and stood in cold Virgina fields at 2am because we knew we needed to keep moving forward despite your efforts.

You #NeverTrump crony-constitutional purists were then, and are now, just as much a part of the problem as before – there is no place for you here, we’re deplorable. Put on your pussy hats and just go join the other side. We didn’t get your support in 2016 and we won’t need it in 2020.

Shut up. Be thankful, quietly.

We’ve got this, and much more yet to come…

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Happy Birthday Andrew !

 



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To: onyx

I remember Greg Gutfeld being particularly obnoxious (even more than usual) about Trump. He seems to have been able to slide back into the fold, no apologies offered. And I remember Steve Hayes calling President Trump “some orange guy”....as arrogant as anyone. When I hear them speak favourably of the president now, I feel like they have no business commenting without admitting they were not only wrong, but harmful.


81 posted on 02/01/2017 6:46:49 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: onyx

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82 posted on 02/01/2017 6:48:23 AM PST by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: onyx
Thanks for posting that Wall of Shame. I will never forget the betrayal of those so-called conservatives. Turns out that protecting the established order (in which conservatives were happy to play along with their liberal establishment counterparts) was more important to them than advancing the conservative cause.

I'm especially disappointed with Thomas Sowell. He ended his long career on a very bad note. He basically flushed all his prior accomplishments down the toilet by leaguing himself with the "Never-Trumper" movement.

83 posted on 02/01/2017 6:49:21 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: onyx

Alright, we can hold it against them, but otherwise, I dont care, as long as we are all on the same page, pushing for the same thing. Anything else is petty squabbling.


84 posted on 02/01/2017 6:51:09 AM PST by Paradox ("Wishing for a tautology to enact itself is not a strategy.")
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To: JonPreston

Ah yes. I used to like Ralph Peters (is that his name?). I haven’t seen him of Fox lately - maybe he’s curled up in a corner somewhere with Glenn Beck and Samantha Bee.


85 posted on 02/01/2017 6:52:09 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: onyx

GOPe “SCABS”


86 posted on 02/01/2017 6:54:15 AM PST by Billyv (Freedom isn't Free! Get off the sidelines!)
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To: JonPreston

Who is that?


87 posted on 02/01/2017 6:54:29 AM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: onyx

Good Post! It seems Sundance has been a little scarce of late but your post shows he’s back in good form. Thanks!

I would ask Sundance to pen something more.

I would ask him to write conditions for the #NeverTrumpers to meet that we could agree to for accepting them back into the fold, conditions that convince the Trump Movement they have learned and are sincerely apologetic.

It may take them months, perhaps years to do the convincing, but it would be handy to have on our end a list of our demands and standards for us to hold out for them to meet.

I write this because there is a sense that our President wants unification. So there’s a suggestion for Sundance and a task for him to take up.


88 posted on 02/01/2017 6:55:26 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: JonPreston

I forgot about Peters....I really do think he shocked me the most. Now, when he comes on TV, I change channel.


89 posted on 02/01/2017 6:56:42 AM PST by slipper (It is almost too late;)
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To: Sidebar Moderator

Thank you. I agree.


90 posted on 02/01/2017 6:57:27 AM PST by slipper (It is almost too late;)
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To: slipper

I do the same thing (change channels) when he comes on ;)


91 posted on 02/01/2017 7:01:23 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator
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To: katykelly

I don’t know if some of these people did end up voting form Trump. They did so much damage that I refuse to listen to any of them now. (I do make exception to Katie Pavlich...sometimes I will listen to her; not sure why)

Dana Loesch had/has such a hateful attitude. How stupid of her, as a NRA spokesperson, to think a Ciinton Admin would not be taking her precious guns away.


92 posted on 02/01/2017 7:01:49 AM PST by slipper (It is almost too late;)
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To: onyx

Now is not the time to harden their, or our, hearts in opposition. They will come around, and we ought to encourage that. Many of us were initially skeptical of Trump, what conservative wasn’t? I still don’t agree with everything he says or does, but I didn’t agree with everything Reagan said or did either.

The bottom line is, I voted for him reluctantly as the lesser evil of the two available options, but he has won me over through his actions. Why was I so slow to come on board? A small but vocal, and often obnoxious segment of his supporters bear a great deal of the responsibility for pushing me, and many others, away.

Remember Reagan’s words: “The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally – not a 20 percent traitor.” Live that, and bring those people around, don’t ostracize them. That is how we build the coalition necessary to retain power now that we’ve won it.


93 posted on 02/01/2017 7:04:12 AM PST by VictorVector
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To: JudyinCanada; Navin Johnson

Chris Stirewalt, with his mocking smile, joking and laughing with MeAgain Kelly. He had such a good time with her smearing Trump. Can’t stand the sight of him.

Gutfeld and Perino are the reason I quit watching the Five. I can understand Beckel and Juan’s rhetoric against Trump, after all that is their job. They are honest. But Gufeld and Perino are both fakes, whichever way the wind blows. At times I think Perino is more democrat than republican.

Stephen Hayes was a major disappointment. I used to have so much respect for him, Brit Hume and Rich Lowery.

It’s as if the world has turned upside down and people are not who you think they are.


94 posted on 02/01/2017 7:08:47 AM PST by slipper (It is almost too late;)
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To: Grampa Dave

Ping ...


95 posted on 02/01/2017 7:09:31 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator
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To: Hostage
I like the attitude you describe, but I am finding it difficult to back away from their vitriol long enough to properly focus on a possible resolution.

If I was more distant from this, I would probably say a detailed, sincere, contrite formal apology would go a long way toward my acceptance of them back “into the fold.” But it should be treated as “probationary,” because too many of these people appear to have evil, opportunistic motives and hearts.

It seems they all turned into new David Brocks. As you know, he was a Republican, at one time, too.

96 posted on 02/01/2017 7:09:34 AM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: onyx

Thank you for posting this.


97 posted on 02/01/2017 7:11:24 AM PST by slipper (It is almost too late;)
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To: onyx

No George Will in that group?


98 posted on 02/01/2017 7:15:58 AM PST by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialists is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: onyx
NATIONAL REVIEW = OUR BITCH.

Here's the disgraced, choke-worthy, metrosexual, weasel that ran it into the ground and tried to sabotage the election.

They'll go broke or need to rely on hushed infusion bribes to stay afloat. Good. F--k them.

99 posted on 02/01/2017 7:21:14 AM PST by AAABEST (Got Traditional Catholicism? - Angelqueen.org)
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To: onyx

I for one am happy that Cruz agrees. Wouldn’t want it any other way.


100 posted on 02/01/2017 7:25:24 AM PST by cornfedcowboy
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