For months we have been hearing
about the presidential candidates and what a debacle the race is.
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Donald Trump entered the primary
on the Republican ticket in June 2015, and has been in the lead ever
since. Much to the chagrin of dyed-in-the-wool
Republicans, he has been vocal in his intentions and crass in his actions.
Those are not necessarily bad
things when discussing Republicans. True
conservative Republicans are best described as stoic. For eons we heard about fighting Democrats by
Marquis of Queensberry rules.
Those rules were established in
the sport of boxing to make things fair, eliminating dirty fighting. Unfortunately, the Democrats don’t follow
those rules of fair play, and even wind up lying about it.
With the scales tipped out of
kilter, Republicans have been boxed into near oblivion over the past decade and
seem to be asking for more of the same - an ardent attempt to snatch defeat out
of the jaws of victory.
Republican purists believe all
their fellow Republicans are cut form the same cloth. Anti-abortion, pro-gun, anti-gay,
pro-religion, anti-clean energy, pro-big business, and so on, are the way every
Republican is expected to think.
Some of my favorite columnists
and pundits have left me behind to express their displeasure that Americans –
by a wide margin – favor Mr. Trump over his Republican opponents, and they are
not ashamed to do so.
But by calling people such as I
names, because I don’t walk in lockstep with their opinions and desires, they
are alienating us thereby aiding and abetting the “enemy.”
Complaints arose about Trump
berating a handicapped reporter, maligning illegal aliens, and calling for
national security by closing the immigration floodgates. None of these are punishable by death,
however you wouldn’t know it by listening to the anointed speak.
George Will, Charles Krauthammer,
Glenn Beck, L. Brent Bozell, Mona Charen, Dana Loesch, William Krystol, Ed
Meese, Katie Pavlich, and a host of others, have made it clear that their
opinions should matter more than mine.
They have been beating up Trump
and his supporters because they say he is a Democrat-in-disguise, and not to be
trusted. They contend he flip-flopped on
issues, and he is a friend of Hillary Clinton.
Oh, my.
Still, the cerebral elite two
paragraphs above sat silently by when Barack Hussein Obama ran for office,
became President, and ran for a second term.
Perhaps it’s because they wanted to avoid being labeled racists. Perhaps they simply forgot about their
Republican buddies just elected to the Congress and Senate who sat on their
hands just to ensure re-election.
Perhaps they were unaware that President Ronald Reagan reached across
“the aisle” to have regular lunches with Democrat Speaker Tip O’Neill.
In any case, they amusingly
patter-on about how the Democrats are eating their own and exhibit
schadenfreude as a result.
Trump is making promises and may
deliver or not, if elected. Yet, he is
offering more hope to frustrated Americans who have been waiting for the
Republican-majority Congress and Senate to do more than file their nails for
the past several years.
The idea is for traditional
Republicans to capitalize on winning elections and subsequent seats. They now have a huge majority of what they
want, and instead of embracing the masses, they would rather alienate those
voters because they’re not as smart as the pundits.
That may just be a way to
congratulate President Hillary.
