This is a rebuttal of Carol Brown's Op-ed at the American Thinker
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/06/why_we_must_support_donald_trump.html whereby the author delves into the same kind of intimidating demagoguery of Principled Conservatives that the Trump Militant themselves have engaged in vain attempts to intimidate and shame those who say they are NeverTrump into supporting the King Presumptive.
They do not understand that it doesn't work and I think essays like that one are just going to harden and solidify current opposition to Trump from the Christian Conservative base that was told by Trump himself that they were not wanted nor needed. The Trump Militant have not been able to convince the reluctant to vote FOR Trump, rather all they have is their nascent fear of Hillary. Voting against Hillary becomes their sole reason and insistence that Conservatives vote Trump, tossing like a well stocked cache of hand grenades that any refusal to vote for Trump is a vote FOR Hillary.
It is easy to pick up on the absolute disdain and borderline vehement hatred of those who on principle, will not vote for Trump in November and it often reminds me of the same kind of attitude one expects when arguing with a rabid secular Leftist over matters of morality. That anyone would stand on a moral principle is deemed a danger to society when they will not embrace that which is anathema to their foundations.
This essay from Brown illustrates that fact clearly, and I'll rebut a large part of it here.
it’s clear these folks (who stand on soap boxes of personal integrity) are putting self before country.
A gross absurdity. We're putting our principles, faith in God for the rectitude of our actions and the Constitution ahead of "country" for once which has become nothing more than "support the party" and 'oppose the greater evil with our own evil'.
In all Statist regimes, everything must be subservient to the state, including one's faith in God and principles, which people like Brown are insisting we surrender for the 'greater good'. This is what happens in all burgeoning tyrannies when they get started in earnest.
The threat of Islam, terror, and open borders drives home the fact that without national security, all else is moot. And on this front alone, Donald Trump’s views are dramatically different from Hillary Clinton’s
No they are not. His views based on his past fruits and support of the Clinton's are the same as hers. Trump's *suggestions* change as often as the wind. His so-called Muslim ban - GONE. His promise of building a wall and making Mexico pay for it - even his staunch Militants here have told us they do not believe Trump will make good on that. Trump is no different than Hillary given his wavering unclear positions.
As if casting a vote that helps ensure that a criminal, socialist Islamist sympathizer gets to plop herself down in the Oval Office in order to continue the destructive and downright evil work of the past eight years is an act brimming with integrity.
Clearly this stooge for Trump has no clue what time we have arrived at. More than half the population WANT a Marxist Communist Totalitarian society. Half of the so-called opposition party are perfectly happy with a dictatorship, as long as it is their dictator. Americans with real integrity will not be party to supporting either candidate, but rather supporting one whose fealty to the Constitution is a provable fruit of character and action. Trump 's stated policies indicate he will rule with a pen and a phone, and indeed his vast army of militants WANT him to act as Mussolini.
We will have no part of supporting that.
And if they are, then the reality is that it will be Clinton or Trump. Choose one. “Conscientious objector” is an adolescent cop-out.
Sez you? What do you plan to do about it? Insult us into betraying our own principles? I choose neither moron running for the throne. You can keep trying to put that silly gun to our heads and threaten to pull the trigger for treason - but that just makes you every bit the enemy of liberty and the Constitution that Hildabeast and Obama are, if not moreso.
Our nation is at war
No, wrong. Our nation has been overthrown from within with vast amounts of help from your party and from Trump himself, who not only financed the Clintons, but who less than 3 years ago, supported, funded, campaigned and endorsed known Communist Bill DeBlasio for NYC mayor.
(albeit a one-sided one we refuse to fight).
Your party has made that its primary practice, which is why I renounced my registration in your party and will never vote for anyone but a vetted and provable staunch Conservative ever again.
All adults are needed on deck.
Your party threw all the Conservative adults out. Your leaders threatened to punch us in the nose and then your prince presumptive told us he did not need nor want us to support him in order to win.
It is unreasonable to let that anger turn into a petulance that would let the left rule the nation for another eight years.
It's inevitable that the Left will rule. Your party made that a permanent reality over the last 8 years and each election cycle they continue to foist greater leftists upon us as candidates until today there is no discernable difference in fruits between the Democrats or Republicans. The GOP Establishment want liberals, and apparently a large chunk of your party wants a NYC liberal for their prince, simply because he is a thin-skinned vulgar man who took on the media in the beginning, but since has become the Leftie he truly is.
So to those holier-than-thou conservatives who refuse to vote for Donald Trump because their personal integrity will not allow them to do so, I say: if you want more jihad, don’t vote for Trump, and help Hillary win. If you want to be sure our borders remain open, don’t vote for Trump, and help Hillary win. And if you want the next president to be someone who got Americans killed and then lied about it, don’t vote for Trump, and help Hillary win. And when Hillary Clinton is sworn in as the next president, you can pat yourself on the back, know you did the right thing, and raise a glass to your integrity, which will have served your ego but not the nation.
You really need to pander to more Bernie supporters for your prince, because crap like that just solidifies principled Conservative resolve from simply voting our conscience to outright activism against your political savior. Hillary will win because Trump is a horrifying candidate who would lose in a landslide if November had any legitimacy, and because more will choose the Mao Pantsuit on the ballot than will choose a vulgar NYC liberal. The election is already lost. That much is a certainty.
Your party has given us no option except another crass and disgusting Leftist for the office. All you have as a campaign is attempts to frighten and intimidate the base Trump already discarded and said he did not need or want the support of. You can try all the day long to hang a Hillary coronation on our heads - but the truth will be that we will have no hand whatsoever in supporting either abomination running for the throne. We will have served our principles, our God and our fealty to the Constitution by refusing to cast a ballot for either, and we will sleep well knowing that we did not fall for the trap of trading our principles for expedience as we did in the last four election cycles.
Whatever rude, obnoxious, manipulative behavior Trump engaged in is in the past.
Wrong. It's everyday. And we know what he did to every Conservative running in the race; the personal and the viciousness assaults on character and families that we are never going to forget. That is who Trump is, and we are not risking lending a hand to put such a man in power. Assuredly he will more easily turn that vulgar unhinged rage against anyone who dares oppose him as we have already witnessed so far - and such is the making of a despot far more dangerous than even Hildabeast will be in that office.
Voting for him doesn’t mean you condone such behavior,
Yes it does.
you support everything he has expressed,
Yes it does.
you trust him implicitly, or that you even like the guy.
Yes it does. It means you trust him implicitly enough hand him the duties of office and uphold the Constitution of which Trump has already demonstrated his complete illiteracy of and having no regard for, excepting his own views of it.
It means you understand what’s at stake and have the maturity to move beyond your own ego in order to be a true patriot.
A true patriot is not one who thinks casting ballot for a NYC liberal is saving the country. A true patriot is standing up for the foundational principles that made us who we are without wavering or compromise. What is at stake is preventing an unstable, vulgar, Constitutionally illiterate, self-absorbed power mad billionaire the most powerful office in the world. That is what is at stake. Some of us understand and believe what Hamilton said about where we find ourselves:
“If we must have an enemy at the head of government let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible.” - Alexander HamiltonI choose not be responsible for the enemy at the head of this government, such as it is.
We either have a shot at a future or we don’t.
Yawn. Same crap we heard from McCainiacs and Romneybots. If you think a ballot determines the future, you have no business calling yourself a patriot because yo have no understanding of liberty or how we even obtained it in the first place.
Trump gives America a chance to survive.
No. Trump is the final nail in the coffin of Conservatism and our foundational principles. He and his are already busy redefining what those things are as they resculpt them into the image of Trump.
And I will not be party to that in any way , shape or form.
