Two Weeks

[n david]

Originally Posted by deacon blues

ND---you need to start a thread admitting how completely OFF you were about this campaign---about #NeverTrump---how this was all going to end---how DUMB it was to believe that Trump was HRC's "good friend" trying to get her elected.

Your opposition to DT was a big waste of time!

No, I don't need to do anything.

I would've been right, had people shown up to vote. When over half the country stays home and doesn't vote, even someone like Trump can win.

Guess you jumped on the Trump bandwagon just in time to gloat. Enjoy that.

[FlamingZword]

Originally Posted by n david

No, I don't need to do anything.

I would've been right, had people shown up to vote. When over half the country stays home and doesn't vote, even someone like Trump can win.

Guess you jumped on the Trump bandwagon just in time to gloat. Enjoy that.

I was on the #NeverHillary bandwagon form the very beginning.
So can I gloat and enjoy it?

[deacon blues]

Originally Posted by n david

No, I don't need to do anything.

I would've been right, had people shown up to vote. When over half the country stays home and doesn't vote, even someone like Trump can win.

Guess you jumped on the Trump bandwagon just in time to gloat. Enjoy that.

And the Indians would've won the World Series had they just won that Game Seven!

I didn't "just jump" on anything. I accepted he won the primaries and was willing to support him because of my passionate opposition to a Clinton presidency.

YOU were gloating when the polls were showing an HRC victory. We could go back and look at all of your mocking, put downs, and sanctimonious rants about how we were the idiots who supported the worst candidate to defeat HRC.

Your inability to admit the obvious---that your daily claims and predictions were wrong---underscores your blind biases. No matter how you try to repackage it, bottom line is, you missed the mark.

[deacon blues]

The claim that DT was trying to get HRC was probably the goofiest charge you made. Do you still stand by this?

[deacon blues]

Originally Posted by FlamingZword

I was on the #NeverHillary bandwagon form the very beginning.
So can I gloat and enjoy it?

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

[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.

[n david]

Originally Posted by deacon blues

The claim that DT was trying to get HRC was probably the goofiest charge you made. Do you still stand by this?

I repeated a claim and posted it could be true, due to the way Trump was running his campaign. For a while, back in August and September, Trump was shooting himself in the face and just doing stupid things.

Based on his campaign then, yes, I believed he was intentionally sabotaging his campaign. I didn't come up with the theory, but I didn't shoot it down either.

[deacon blues]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

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:

Where did I claim this election was about me?