VOTE TRUMP/PENCE

So, it is finally official: Donald J. Trump is the Republican Party candidate for the November 2016 Presidential election. Many conservatives, myself included, are not necessarily thrilled with that development but we are not naïve enough, nor offended enough, nor self-serving enough nor stupid enough to not support him in November. There are many that call themselves Republican and/or Conservative who are naïve, offended, self-serving and stupid enough which could easily result in a Hillary Clinton presidency. Many of the very Republicans that pressured Donald Trump into pledging an oath that would require him to vote for and support the eventual Republican nominee are now refusing to honor their own oath with regard to his candidacy. I recall several months ago when his pledge was a big issue with the establishment Republicans and also at that time questioning if they would reciprocate if he were to become the nominee and now many are refusing. There are days when I hate being right.

There were several months during the last year of campaigning that I was leaning heavily toward Ted Cruz and hoping he would be our nominee. Fortunately for my credibility I never said that outright. Toward the end of the debates I was witnessing Ted Cruz’s eventual destruction of his candidacy by his own hand. He had begun to make Trump look like Mother Teresa. To this day I believe Ted Cruz remains the best constitutionally Conservative Republican legislator. But I will readily admit I was not expecting the personal destruction of his candidacy. With him having gone back on his word that he would support whoever the eventual nominee is I have lost a considerable amount of respect for the man. Trump specifically invited Cruz to speak at the Republican National Convention. Trump said that he had read Cruz’s convention speech and made no effort to stop him from speaking nor requested any alterations to the speech. Trump knew ahead of time that Cruz was not going to specifically endorse him. It makes me wonder if Trump set Cruz up to allow him to advance his own personal destruction. If that is true then don’t ever again underestimate Trump’s ability to know the use of hard-core political tactics.

Cruz may very well have isolated himself to a political wasteland that could easily last for several years. I applaud Cruz for sticking to his principles with the claim that Donald Trump is not qualified to be the President of the United States. But if it were principles he was standing behind then he should’ve refused to speak at the convention in the first place. The sad fact is I believe Cruz’s speech was specifically designed to advance his own perceived conservative credentials and at the same time take one last dig at Donald Trump by telling everyone to vote their own conscience. There was no spoken or even applied word of endorsement from Cruz to Trump. Cruz having been booed off the convention stage is just another example of how Republicans “eat their own”. Cruz went back on his word and being booed off the stage is just another way that the Republican base can show their utter contempt for one more broken promise. Losing Ted Cruz as an “up and comer” is a sad day for the advancement of Conservatism.

Losing John Kasich, on the other hand, is no loss to the advancement of Conservatism. Kasich was at best a RINO but turns out to be a terrible sore loser as well. Being the governor of the state that is hosting the Republican National Convention and then refusing to even make a minor appearance seems to me to be the largest crate of sour grapes I’ve ever heard of. He didn’t snub only Donald Trump he snubbed the entire Republican Party. It surprises me that a politician with as many years of political experience as John Kasich has that he would be ignorant enough to burn a bridge that large. In my opinion he has successfully removed himself from any further advancement in to a higher level of the national political arena. I never accepted Kasich as a right minded political thinker. It is a little ironic that he has proven my point himself.

Jeb Bush has successfully destroyed the so-called “Bush Presidential Dynasty” and has very well ended his own future political aspirations at any national level. His absolute and never-ending political gibberish has made him appear to me to be not only a massive sore loser but also a complete ignoramus that would accept Hillary Clinton as president and allow the final destruction of the United States. Can anyone claim any higher level of intelligence or patriotism and still be willing to accept Hillary as our ultimate national leader. I’m pretty safe in saying that Jeb Bush was never a candidate for Mensa but I am still amazed at his level of ignorance.

I have another Republican that I had been holding in high regard until the last few months of this campaign season. I mentioned Mike Lee of Utah on a few occasions in my blog and maybe even in my book Freedom Permits. I liked many of the Conservative things he had been saying and doing. He turned out to be a “Never Trump” kind of guy that would also allow Hillary to be president. At the convention Mike Lee made an attempt at a rule change that he claimed was protection of the “grassroots” of the Republican Party. The Republican convention rule book says that during the first round of voting for a candidate at the convention the caucus members from each state will vote for the candidate that they were assigned to vote for. That assigned vote was based on the number of votes obtained by that candidate during the primary elections. That means that the voters were still in charge of determining who they wanted as their candidate. I was always under the impression that the voters were the grassroots. That doesn’t seem to be the case with Mike Lee because the rule change he wanted to make was going to take the voters voice away and allow the caucus attendees to vote for whoever they wanted to even in the first round of voting. That sounds to me like the exact opposite of protecting the grassroots.

I could easily have a few things to say about Mitt Romney or John McCain or Paul Ryan but I am thoroughly exhausted from talking about losers. Suffice it to say that they are quickly and appropriately isolating themselves from the good graces of true Conservative voters.

Let’s go on to something more positive: the Trump/Pence Presidential ticket. I was extremely glad to see Trump bypass Chris Christie and Newt Gingrich as possible running mates. Chris Christie is not a good conservative. Chris Christie is not even a respectable RINO. Newt Gingrich outlived his conservative value in the late 1990s. Even though Pence is what I would normally call an establishment Republican based on his past years in Congress, his words and actions seem to mirror many of the values I hold near and dear. That all remains to be seen but I have high hopes.

I will once again call on everyone regardless of race, creed, religion, age, social status, sexual orientation, gender, rich or poor and everything in between to please vote Trump/Pence in order to prevent Hillary Clinton from continuing Obama’s socialist destruction of America.

God Bless America!!!