I doubt
Trump supporters noticed that not once did he mention the word “Conservatives”
in his acceptance speech Thursday at the convention nor did he do it Friday in
his press conference, instead he chose to curb-stomp Cruz 3 separate times. He
did however ask Bernie supporters to come jump on board, like that will happen,
but not one encouraging word inviting in Conservatives.
It tells you how far Republican politics have gone off the tracks when a newly minted Republican nominee openly courts the most liberal members of the Democrat party instead of reaching out to the most Conservative in his own.
Just putting
Cruz aside for a moment Trump has had 2 golden opportunities in as many days to
unite the party. Instead of acting like an adult and inviting all Republicans
to join the team so he could win in November he went into full on trash talk mode.
Why not
invite the Conservatives to join him? His answer, he doesn't need Cruz's
endorsement or in so many words the Conservatives either to beat Hillary. That’s
an insane strategy of course because he'll surely need every voter he can get
including Conservatives to have any chance in November.
The problem
is and it’s his problem by the way, is he doesn’t give a hot damn about the
Conservatives, it took him less than 24 hours to alienate them again with this
stupid speech Friday. You CAN NOT blame the Conservative voters if Trump
losses in November, his ego and his mouth will do it for him. I'm getting damn
sick and tired of Trump supporters trying to shame me or other Conservatives
and saying we’re traitors for not flying Trump's flag.
The Republican
primary voters had 4 solid Conservatives to pick from in the 2016 race and
anyone of them would have turned the country in the “right” direction with “Conservative
Principles”. If some of them choose not
to vote for him, write someone else in or vote for the Libertarian based on upholding
their principles I WILL NOT condemn them.
Why? Here’s
brief political history lesson on the last 2 Presidential elections for those that have
short memories.
In 2008 and
2012 we were essentially told by the establishment Republicans we had to ignore
Conservative principles and vote for 2 moderate, left of center Republicans, RINO’s,
whatever you choose to name them, so we could win an election. We were told by John McCain then Mitt Romney that a blanket amnesty was the solution to illegal immigration
only because they both believed that Latinos and moderate Democrats would vote
for them in the general.
Granted there were other important issues
that didn’t help them, the wars in the Middle East, the Wall Street collapse, then the bank and auto bailouts
and the reckless spending by the GOP congress leading up to 2006 when they lost control of the House, then the Senate in 2008. But to call
these 2 men Conservatives is like calling Hillary and Bernie moderate
Democrats.
In 2008 Rudy
Giuliani or Tommy Thompson would have been great nominees, instead we were left
with the detestable McCain. A man whose only conservative value was
national defense but on everything else he was a card carrying Democrat. Don’t
believe me? Take a long look at his career and congressional voting record.
McCain didn’t
help himself by picking Sarah Palin as his running mate either. Tea Party folks
may have liked the choice but I sure didn’t, she did far more to hurt his
chances than help them. Her true colors and ego came shining through in the
primaries in 2016 when she slammed Cruz then endorsed Trump. And she still calls
herself Conservative, really? And my local Tea Party friends here in our County
don’t understand why I don’t want to be labeled a Tea Party person.
In 2012
voters turned away from Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann in favor of Romney. Romney was pro-amnesty, pro climate change,
anti-fossil fuel and had the Romneycare noose around his neck and spent the entire
primary season defending it, instead of admitting it was an epic failure.
But still
the establishment in the GOP insisted that these 2 men, that were for the most
part RINO’s in every sense of the word, were the best we could do and that if
Conservatives didn’t support them and vote for them we couldn’t win either
election.
Well I ask
Republicans today, how the hell did that work out for us? Did voting for 2 moderate Republicans in the primaries help us win an election?
This isn’t
to say that either McCain or Romney would not have been better for the country
than 8 years of Obama that’s blatantly obvious of course they would have. But the
point is we’ve had the opportunity as Republicans to turn the party to the
right in 3 consecutive election cycles and each time we’ve picked men who the establishment
said we had to vote for to win the election. In 3 consecutive primary election cycles
far too many Republicans didn’t have the nerve to back the best Conservative
candidates. 3 times
we’ve been asked as Conservatives to sell ourselves down the river for men that
at best are blue dog or moderate Democrats. And of those 3 candidates Trump in
my opinion is the biggest disaster of them all.
The lesson
of history is that is that Republicans have not learned from the lessons of
history. I however have a clear conscience; I’ve voted for Conservative
candidates in 3 Presidential primary election cycles in a row. Why more
Republicans didn’t have the courage to do the same isn’t my fault.
I have no
choice once again but to vote for a very flawed man that isn’t worthy of the office
and damn sure isn’t a Conservative. I’m completely and emotionally drained by
this election and while voting for Trump in the general election makes me feel like I sold my soul in another election I won't be a Conservative that puts Hillary in the White House.
So please do
me the favor Trump supporters and stop blaming and shaming Conservatives for the down
fall of the US if some principled Conservatives that have a conscience don’t vote for him. THEY CAN
NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR BAD CHOICE IN THE PRIMARY! And please stop the Ronald Reagan comparisons because they're revolting and insulting.
This is
Trump’s election to win or lose that’s the bottom line. No one will be happier
than me if Trump is a true man of his word and does what he says he’s going to
do if he wins. I’ll happily eat crow if he does but he has to win the election first and if
he doesn’t invite as many people as possible including Conservatives into his tent this fall Hillary will be our next
President.
I hope the next time
Republicans have the intellectual honesty and courage to vote for the most Conservative
candidate instead of the cult of personality or a Trojan Horse.
