I have never been more disappointed and angry at the Republican Party (except maybe 2012 when I left the party in response to Obama beating Romney, only to come back to attempt to vote for Cruz and have an absetee ballet for the NY primaries mailed to me, only to have that fail). Republicans are some of the most gutless people. And their party is a joke. How is it that a party with a lot of candidates in the primaries suddenly winds down to only Donald Trump being in the race? Trump is NOT a Conservative. And neither is the racist altright, which forms much of his base.
Trump supporters cheer him for standing up to political correctness. But he is gutless like the Republican establishment that he and his supporters attacked. A perfect example is his refusal to denounce David Duke and the KKK. First he pretended not to know who David Duke is. Then he pretended that there was a technical difficulty with his ear piece during the interview.
Trump stands for no principles. He stands for nothing of substance. Trump has supported even partial birth abortion, where most of the baby (that is excluding the head) was murdered in cold blood. Pro-abort barbarians told themselves that as long as a little bit of the baby is still in the birth canal, it's still a clump of cells and, therefore, it's ok to do whatever they want with him/her. Trump supported that. And he supports Planned Parenthood, the organization that still carried out this barbaric practice (even when it was illegal) and sold baby parts. While he said that he'll punish women for having abortions, he still wants to fund this organization.
Trump now claims to stand for the Bible. But what he promotes is antithetical to what religious/Social Conservatives stand for. In addition to Trump's personal sex life (which included cheating on his wife), he also has strip clubs in his casinos. What Trump does with his personal life is his buisness. But he certainly is not a social Conservative and not a Conservative by any sense of the world. What puzzles me is that Sarah Palin endorsed him.
Trump stands for higher taxes and bigger government. Back in 2012, he blamed Romney's defeat on him supposedly being too harsh toward illegal immigrants. Trump also hired illegal immigrants to build the Trump Tower. Now suddenly, he comes out harshly against illegal immigration. He is a flip flop who just says whatever his base wants to hear. He may be challenging political correctness, but he doesn't stand for any principle.
I am so disappointed and angry at Republicans. The Republican establishment, which initially felt threatened with his rise, is now trying to kiss up to him because he's the only candidate there. Trump resembles the Republican establishment way more than his Conservative opponents do. Like the Republican establishment, winning is the most important thing for Trump. I like a candidate who stands up to political correctness and doesn't try to please everyone. But I also want someone who says the truth and stands for principle, which is not something Trump stands for. As I said, if Trump thinks he can inflate his ego through being to the left of Bernie Sanders, he would be to the left of Bernie Sanders.
Now why am I disappointed in Conservatives? Conservatives stand for the right principles, but are so bad at getting their message out. An example of that was in 2012 when then- Republican Senator Todd Aiken stupidly said that, regarding the rape exception for abortion, that the woman's body has a way to shut it down if it's legitimate rape. In my book, the only legit argument against abortion (especially when it comes to the rape exception) is that the fetus is a human life (or even a potential life). If the fetus is not a human life, then, regardless of what you think of the morality of the procedure, the pro-choice movement would technically be right. The last thing Aiken said I agree with, which is that "I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child." That is the argument against the rape exception, not the stupid argument of legitimiate rape. While there is a lot of sciencific evidence showing that that the fetus is human life, the claim of the woman's body shutting down the pregnancy if it's "legitimate rape" is just junk "science." Todd Aiken played right into the Obama and the left and their claim of a "Republican War on women" (all the while Obama stands with real misogynist enemies of America in the Muslim World and stands against Israel, the only country in the region where women have equal rights and are treated like human beings). In other words, Conservatives failed in 2012 and again in 2016.
Conservatives seem to focus more on CPAC than on influencing the culture. Conservatives also have a tendancy to vote for the lesser of two evils (I was guilty of the same when I voted for Romney in 2012, thinking that voting for the third party would split the vote for Obama, yet Obama won anyway). The Conservative approach of voting for the lesser of two evils allowed the GOP establishment to take their vote for granted. The thinking was: Conservatives will vote for our candidate anyway, but let's choose a more "moderate" candidate to appeal to the "moderates" and the "independants."
Republicans have been told that they need to be more "moderate" or give up on the social issues. They get told that they need to be more "tolerant" of the gay agenda while religious people are facing persecution (like being forced to bake cakes for same-sex weddings or pastors being thrown in jail for not performing same-sex weddings). I disagree. Conservatives should not give up on any of their principles because that is what would make them gutless wusses. And it's these gutless wusses who people like Trump eat for breakfast.
While Democrats have moved left on social issues and pretty much any other issue out there, Republicans are getting told to just give up their principles in order to win. Now be ok with babies being cut up in the mother's womb for convenience because an election victory is more important. Be ok with gay marriage and the radical Homosexual agenda imposing its will on religious people because an election victory is more important. And go along with Bruce Jenner being a woman and girls being forced to see naked men in the bathroom who identify as women because the election victory is more important. This is what giving up on the social issues means. This is what Republicans being more "tolerant" looks like. When Republicans are told to be more "tolerant," they're essentially being told by Democrats to be more gutless so then leftists (and now Trumpians) can roll over them (I will say that on the gay marriage issue, I would support Government staying out of marriage and leaving it to the religious institutions and have the Goververnment issuing lisences if they want any of the "benefits" of marriages). Republicans don't need to be more tolerant of immorality. Conservatives have been too "tolerant." That's the problem. Conservatives should get control of the GOP and start throwing out anyone who is not Conservative enough. Then we won't have these gutless whimps in the GOP establishment nor would we have these dumb pieces of dog doo like Donald Trump. Social issues are just as important as economic ones. So yes, Conservatives should fight on both the social and fiscal issues.
If Conservatives can't even save the Republicans from gutless RINOs, Trump, and the alt-right, what makes them able to save this country? If they can't handle Trump, how can they handle Hillary Clinton? And so this is why I have never been more angry and disappointed at Republicans and even at Conservatives.
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