It's truly amazing to me what bad losers the remnants of the #NeverTrump movement are. I just read a piece in the Weekly Standard by Bill Kristol in which he pleads for an Independent Republican to run as a third party candidate. Earlier today, the ever-whining Lindsay Graham told the world he couldn't support Trump. There's a bunch of others, but they all have one thing in common: the want to deny both reality and the will of the people.
The simple truth is that after more than forty primaries and caucuses, Donald Trump won. He is certainly going to have a majority of the delegates at the convention in Cleveland because the American voters chose him. Those voters heard people like Kristol criticize Trump repeatedly; it didn't matter. Those voters also heard Lindsay Graham embarrass himself as a candidate who got fewer votes than the number needed to fill the average Denny's. Graham was uniformly anti-Trump and no one cared. He was a joke; the candidate who managed to come in last.
The second truth is that in the United States of America, winning the votes of the people is supposed to be the only path to victory in political choices. Okay, sometimes there are slight variations, but they take place only when the race is extremely close. There's never been a time when one side got crushed by the voters only to somehow pull out victory; and let's hope that there never is because it would mean the end to our democracy.
The people like Kristol and Graham (and Romney) seem to want to deny these truths. The problem, however, is that there's no way to do that. All that is happening is that we are seeing a bunch of poor losers who refuse to accept reality. Remember, all of these people say that Hillary Clinton would be a terrible president. It's not that they are switching parties and supporting the Democrat. No, they want a third party candidate to get involved in the race. All these people know full well, however, that adding a third party just guarantees a massive win by Clinton and the Democrats. Indeed, a third party would not only doom Trump, but it would also kill the chances for the GOP to keep either the Senate or the House.
If a little boy loses a game, sometimes he may decide to take his ball and go home, thereby leaving the others without the means to continue. It's poor behavior for a child. As a responsible adult, however, it is intolerable behavior for people like these to announce that they are taking their party and going home. What they are really saying is that because they didn't get the Republican nominee they wanted, they are going to inflict the dishonest and incompetent Hillary Clinton on all of us. It's a move from which none of these people will ever recover in my opinion. Hopefully, Graham's days in the Senate are coming to an end. Hopefully Kristol's career as a pundit are over. Indeed, I would cancel my subscription to the Weekly Standard if I were a subscriber (which I'm not).
Let me put it this way. When the race began a year ago, I favored three candidates: Scott Walker, Carly Fiorina and Marco Rubio. As time went on, it became clear to me that Rubio was the best of them and I supported him. When Rubio lost, I switched my support to Cruz for whom I voted in the Connecticut primary. At all times, however, I knew that the future of this nation was hanging in the balance. A Hillary Clinton presidency will move us much further down the road to decay and despair by continuing the course set by president Obama. It would be a total disaster. The goal of all decent thinking people has to be to keep Clinton out of the Oval Office. The people chose Trump as our nominee. He has my wholehearted support. I truly despise these selfish fools who think more of their own feelings than of the good of the country.
The simple truth is that after more than forty primaries and caucuses, Donald Trump won. He is certainly going to have a majority of the delegates at the convention in Cleveland because the American voters chose him. Those voters heard people like Kristol criticize Trump repeatedly; it didn't matter. Those voters also heard Lindsay Graham embarrass himself as a candidate who got fewer votes than the number needed to fill the average Denny's. Graham was uniformly anti-Trump and no one cared. He was a joke; the candidate who managed to come in last.
The second truth is that in the United States of America, winning the votes of the people is supposed to be the only path to victory in political choices. Okay, sometimes there are slight variations, but they take place only when the race is extremely close. There's never been a time when one side got crushed by the voters only to somehow pull out victory; and let's hope that there never is because it would mean the end to our democracy.
The people like Kristol and Graham (and Romney) seem to want to deny these truths. The problem, however, is that there's no way to do that. All that is happening is that we are seeing a bunch of poor losers who refuse to accept reality. Remember, all of these people say that Hillary Clinton would be a terrible president. It's not that they are switching parties and supporting the Democrat. No, they want a third party candidate to get involved in the race. All these people know full well, however, that adding a third party just guarantees a massive win by Clinton and the Democrats. Indeed, a third party would not only doom Trump, but it would also kill the chances for the GOP to keep either the Senate or the House.
If a little boy loses a game, sometimes he may decide to take his ball and go home, thereby leaving the others without the means to continue. It's poor behavior for a child. As a responsible adult, however, it is intolerable behavior for people like these to announce that they are taking their party and going home. What they are really saying is that because they didn't get the Republican nominee they wanted, they are going to inflict the dishonest and incompetent Hillary Clinton on all of us. It's a move from which none of these people will ever recover in my opinion. Hopefully, Graham's days in the Senate are coming to an end. Hopefully Kristol's career as a pundit are over. Indeed, I would cancel my subscription to the Weekly Standard if I were a subscriber (which I'm not).
Let me put it this way. When the race began a year ago, I favored three candidates: Scott Walker, Carly Fiorina and Marco Rubio. As time went on, it became clear to me that Rubio was the best of them and I supported him. When Rubio lost, I switched my support to Cruz for whom I voted in the Connecticut primary. At all times, however, I knew that the future of this nation was hanging in the balance. A Hillary Clinton presidency will move us much further down the road to decay and despair by continuing the course set by president Obama. It would be a total disaster. The goal of all decent thinking people has to be to keep Clinton out of the Oval Office. The people chose Trump as our nominee. He has my wholehearted support. I truly despise these selfish fools who think more of their own feelings than of the good of the country.
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