[WideRight05]

I’m not going to quote you, TRT (to save room) but am responding to your prior two posts.

For the one about Cruz, for sake of this I will go along with you and agree with all of that – even though I don’t buy it because you were pro-Trump long before that whole thing in Iowa ever happened. Honestly, it looked as if you were lying in wait for Cruz to do something so you could turn against him. Cruz turns out bad, but then you go with….Donald Trump? Out of all of the other candidates? That’s why I have a difficult time taking that seriously. You had 15 other options, and with two or three of them I know you could have found one that would have been credible. I just can’t take that seriously, complaining about Cruz’s lack of integrity in this process and then turning around and supporting Donald Trump. Then you even go on to call Trump a great man in another thread so like many of Trump’s supporters, you are blinded to him.

Nice try on twisting my quote about the primary, your hope being, of course, to get me to defend myself on that so you can dodge having not voted. And you’re the one who often tells us how we are going to be held accountable for our vote.

Now I’ll respond to post #46.

What you laid out in post #14, is pretty much the selling points for the reasons anybody would vote Republican. You mentioned similar issues in another thread. I never said anything related to Keane or Bolton, or even Jeffress, but the only one you mentioned to me of the three was Jeffress. As for Christie, you’ve complimented him quite well lately – but pre-Trump, you even devoted a thread to bashing his positions. Sarah is bizarre, but the fact is you did try to use her to convince me to support Trump.

Yes, it will only be one of the two candidates unless Johnson happens to go on a tear, which I don’t see happening – and even then I wouldn’t vote for him. I feel we have determined the direction we want to go. The Democrats want to go hardcore to the left, and the Republicans want to go toward the center, as evidenced by Donald Trump winning overwhelmingly. If I had confidence in Trump holding a consistent position and in his character, then I would cast a vote for him. Not to mention, the supporters of this movement are doing the exact same things – even to other conservatives – that you and I and many others on this board complained about with Obama’s supporters. Mitt Romney was flawed, but this one is really pushing it.

One important aspect of unity is around principles. If you go through issue after issue, you easily find agreement. This movement with Trump isn’t about principles – it’s about Donald Trump. That’s why I think that, while it may be booming now, it will be short-lived and that’s even if Trump gets elected. There’s just too much of an emotional attachment to Donald Trump amongst his supporters, which is dangerous.

If you vote for Donald Trump, that won’t lead to a problem in terms of how we get along. I have other friends doing the same thing, friends on this board, who have decided to hold their nose and do so. I’ve gone the direction I have, because if I attack Donald Trump you take it as an insult toward you and often respond in like, attacking my sources and often dismissing my knowledge because of my youth. I’m not mad, but you can bet I’ll fire back when that happens. Regarding Trump, we’ll just have to disagree.