[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by deacon blues

Yep. That's what it was about. ND, PO, et al either can't see it or they refuse to admit it.

Our choice about how we would vote wasn't about you, DB. Our objective was to vote down ballot in order to win both the House and the Senate for either candidate who might win. Ted Cruz traveled Texas and around the country to campaign with those people for that end. We did get that accomplished. I did vote down ballot.

This article speaks for me as to why I would never, and in hindsight after the win, would never have voted for Donald J. Trump:

Part 1: Donald Trump is Not a Decent Man, Nor is He a Conservative

There's a reason so many individuals in the Republican Party who opposed Trump in the primaries vowed not to vote for him in the general. Donald Trump is the antithesis of constitutional conservatism, and many of the things he said during the last year and a half are simply heinous.

A constitutional conservative believes in a limited federal government, free market-based solutions to economic issues, individual success and failure, the sanctity of human life, state's rights per the 10th Amendment, and numerous other things to which Donald Trump stands in opposition.

Donald Trump has proposed massive tariffs on foreign goods, and taxes on companies that decide to move elsewhere to reduce production costs. This is anti-conservative. Donald trump has talked on many occasions about the merits of a single-payer healthcare system, not unlike that of the U.K. This is anti-conservative. Donald Trump refuses to touch America's bloated, bankrupt, and dying entitlement system. This is anti-conservative.

Over the course of his campaign, Donald Trump has indeed adopted certain positions that share common ground with conservatives. Strong border security, a more robust response to radical Islamic terrorism, and his alleged conversion to a pro-life belief system come to mind. However, looking at Donald Trump and conservatism on a Venn diagram, there would be little overlap.

Perhaps more critical, his profoundly disgusting and vindictive behavior is deeply concerning. He mocked a physically handicapped reporter; he proposed a ban on all Muslims entering the United States; he implied Senator Ted Cruz's father was involved in the JFK assassination; he openly demeaned Heidi Cruz; he ridiculed Senator John McCain for being a prisoner of war in Vietnam; he made shameful comments about women on multiple occasions; he repeated the slander that George W. Bush knowingly lied, sending troops to Iraq to die for no reason; he told endless bald-faced lies about his primary opponents--and that's just a sampling. There was the leaked audio in which he said he could grab women "by the p****," his Howard Stern interview in which he said avoiding sexually transmitted diseases was his "personal Vietnam." It goes on and on.

Donald Trump is a scumbag. Donald Trump is not a conservative.