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2016-04-25 Home Front: Politix

End of the Line for the 'Never-Trump' Brigade?

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-04-25 05:01|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Why would this be the end of the line? He either gets the nomination or he doesn't. Doesn't mean any principled conservative would vote for him in the general election.

Posted by Iblis 2016-04-25 17:41|| 2016-04-25 17:41|| Front Page Top

#2 In the general election a principled conservative, like the rest of us, must vote according to his calculation of what will do the least harm to the nation for at least the next four years -- whether voting for the Democratic Party's candidate or the Republican Party's... or withholding his presidential vote and just casting his vote for Congresscritters and state and local candidates and issues. Sometimes it's about winning the war amd getting to march in the parades, sometimes it's just about being the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike -- cold, wet, terrifying, but stubbornly refusing to let the ocean flood in.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-04-25 20:39|| 2016-04-25 20:39|| Front Page Top

#3 I feel like I've been putting my finger in the dike for a while, while the water goes from my ankles to my knees to my 'nads, and I don't think Trump brand grout is going to work, nor do I have any good expectations for Hillary Brand Flooding.

Our planet is doomed, Doomed, to go Forward, Not Backward, Upward, not Forward, and Twirling, Twirling, twirling towards Freedom... oh well.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-04-25 20:46|| 2016-04-25 20:46|| Front Page Top

#4 TW - The reason that the Republican party is in such a sad state is that they have been able to sell us terrible candidates on the basis of their not being as bad as the alternative.

For me, that is no longer enough.

Posted by Iblis 2016-04-25 21:41|| 2016-04-25 21:41|| Front Page Top

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