I am up. And I don't back down, not for nothing.
If I have to charge hell with a bucket of water all by myself, I will. I'd just hope that one of y'all, standing around here, would hold my coat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H-Y7MAASkg
Cute little ditty.
You're talking like a Trumpkin if you're calling myself, Norm, and others like us, quitters and losers. My position is quite simple. "Get over it", as you said. The GOP is lost. The "conservative movement" has been eviscerated. In military terms, we foot soldiers answered the call to battle, fought the war and fought it well. We left it all on the field, only to have our "leaders" forward turn over their swords to the enemy, and abandon the field, while our "compatriots" to our rear, directed "friendly" artillery on our own positions. If Palin, for example, felt compelled to support Trump as the only effective alternative to Trump, and then went back to Wasilla to wait out the action, I could understand, given what she's been through. But she's enthusiastically joining the "Lyin Ted" Trumpkin train. People who supposedly "had our backs" fired at our backs.
We're saying "no mas". Not playin' by your rules anymore. I can't tell you how many conservatives have opted for new cold weather retirement homes, like Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and so forth,
FLEEING THE INSANITY that this country has become. I'm talking about fighters, too, both military combat veterans as well as civilian veterans of the cultural wars. We've chosen an organized retreat, and to protect our families, over some quixotic battle to restore this once conservative country back to a Constitutional Republic.
As Norm has alluded, and I have previously written, it takes considerable personal privation to turn this culture around, and in my Judeo-Christian perspective, nothing but a turn towards historic Christian ethics will make a difference. The change has to happen in
the personal, not simply the economic, philosophical, or political. I don't see that happening in this country any time soon, and neither, I believe, does Norm.
If the Constitutional Party makes a run at it, if Ted Cruz, for example, suddenly became the standard bearer (and there are others who could do it), I'd be on board with both feet. Otherwise, I'm going to make my vote count to hurt Donald and his supporters. I'm not "quitting", e.g. sitting home, nor am I voting for THE DONALD simply because he has eliminated any other alternative within the GOP. When I get my lazy rear end downtown, I'm re-registering, probably as an independent. I'm done with the GOP forever. I won't vote down ballot GOP, either. If someone wants to earn my vote, it'll take a whole lot more than (R), (C), or (L) next to their name, to get it.
I'll prep, load, practice, and prepare for war - literal war. I'll help my family, (but my kids are already miles ahead of me, anyway). I will no longer involve myself in useless political games.
I will answer the call, but not the call of Trump, or Boehner, Ryan, or McConnell , or other midgets and fakes like Issa, Gowdy, et. al..
If you call that "quitting", so be it. I call it orderly retreat, consolidating forces, redirecting fire, and "going to ground" in the face of forces with superior numbers.