Excellent overview of the Trump phenomenon. NeverTrumpers needn't bother, its more than one paragraph long...
https://theconservativetreehouse.com...rty-candidate/
"The #NeverTrump team, specifically the punditry within it, are doing what the professionally republican clans do every time they lose. They pout, gnash their teeth, stomp their feet and eventually carry off their football.
They are annoying insignificant gnats full of self-importance that can be cast into a pit of irrelevance. These are the same voices who rejoiced when the were granted audience with President-elect Obama in 2008.
These are also the same insufferable small-minded dolts who stand up at CPAC and applaud House Speaker Omnibus Paul Ryan, while never even thinking about -let alone reconciling- the reality of the last federal budget being passed in 2007.
When was the last time this group assembled their efforts to protest congress spending the 2009 Stimulus year-after-year-after-year. Have you ever even heard them mention it? Did you know our treasury re-spends the trillion dollar ARRA stimulus every year?
Conservatives? Yeah, enough said.
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In September of 2015 Jonah Goldberg writing for National Review penned an outline encapsulating his disappointment toward those who support Donald Trump. After a few days of reflection we, coincidentally along with John Nolte via Breitbart, responded.
Our initial response, “An Open Letter To Jonah Goldberg“, was not advancing the proposition that Donald Trump was the be-all end-all harbinger of conservatism, it was never our intent.
Exactly the opposite is true, which is profoundly evident in my own expressed motives “Why I Support Donald Trump” Part I, Part 2 and Part 3. The key word in that prior paragraph is “motive”; we stand open with our motive – the opponents do not.
We used the metaphor our constitutional republic was akin to the most beautiful classic car ever created, a beauty that is now in desperate need of restoration.
This metaphor allowed me to present the question:
Do we begin restoration to remove the rust with a ground up painstaking process intended to regain the full value, but will be exceedingly costly; or, do we as a nation once again put bondo over the rot and give it an appearance only paint job to maintain the impression?
My supported position, given all the rot and disrepair we know exists, was not to ignore the growing insufferable issues evident by hiding problems (McConnell, Boehner, Ryan, U.S. CoC) under layers of shiny paint (Romney, Jeb, Kasich, Cruz et al).
Instead we proposed, and many like-minded agreed, we tear it down (using Trump) and begin an arduous but worthy process of rebuilding.
end of quotes. Much more at the link.
Hybrid Mode
