Thursday, January 28, 2016
It's Time for the Republican Party to Support Trump as Candidate
The Thursday GOP presidential debate lost its star and glitter when Donald Trump decided to leave Fox News in the mess it so completely deserved after publicly belittling a US candidate for President. Fox and CEO Roger Ailes crossed the line from serious journalism and respect for the presidency to slapstick yellow journalism, and Trump said, in effect, Stop, and organized an evening of tribute and support for American Veterans. Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum will join him after their early-show second tier debate. The rest of the Republican candidates would do the right thing if they abandoned Fox News and joined Trump. We know that won't happen because Fox News is their ticket into conservative American living rooms. ~~~~~ And that is the second reason Donald Trump was right to walk away from Fox News -- no news outlet should be a dictator to either the Republican Party or its candidates. Trump is proving that Fox is not the GOP kingmaker -- unless the party and Republican National Committee kowtow to Ailes because it is free publicity and eliminates actually needing to do their jobs. Trump, while refusing to be bought by Fox -- who Trump says apologized to him -- has nevertheless convinced 64% of Republican-leaning voters that he will be the GOP presidential nominee, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll. And other polls support Trump's lock on the race to the White House. **According to an NBC/WSJ/Marist poll, Trump leads Ted Cruz in Iowa, 32% to 25%. Marco Rubio rounds out the top three at 18%. **In New Hampshire, a Suffolk University poll shows Trump leads Cruz and Kasich, 27% to 12%. An NBC/WSJ/Marist poll has Trump ahead of Cruz, 31% to 12%. Kasich and Rubio trail both at 11%. **In South Carolina, an NBC/WSJ/Marist poll finds Trump leading Cruz, 36% to 20%. Rubio completes the top three at 14%. **And as far out as the Pennsylvania primary, a Franklin & Marshall poll has Trump ahead of Cruz, 24% to 14%. Rubio trails both at 11%. ~~~~~ Dear readers, what we need now is for all the lower-polling Republican candidates to withdraw and support a party unity ticket with Trump as the presidential candidate and a more conservative Republican as VP -- logically Cruz, Huckabee or Rubio, or a popular conservative not now running. The GOP has an obligation to America to be sure that neither a socialist nor a liar becomes President. And conservative and establishment Republicans have an obligation to America to accept the candidate preferred by their party's voters and help him to be elected. America's future is to continue as a constitutional republic that respects individual rights and supports the US economic system that improved the living standards of all Americans through the Reagan era. Now, we have an America with a trashed economy, a demoralized military, and irrational racial and political division under a Democratic President, who sees America's future as a socialist European welfare state. This is not the time for petty Republican family arguments. It is time to Make America Great Again.
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If anyone within the sound of this fine blog is looking for a "conservative" candidate to enter into the General Election period post party convention time - you have but one choice
ReplyDeleteTED CRUZ
I am not saying that I am anti Donald Trump. just beware of his past support of various very left leaning ideas and programs. he was most recently a very (a word used by trump himself) strong supporter of Pro-Choice.
Ted Cruz’s conservatism is unchallenged by anybody in this race.
Fox news wants to drown in the profits from the ideological purity that they (Fox) has established as conservatism. And maybe what Donald Trump is preaching is not ideological conservatism, but it is what Main Street America is talking about right now, and I believe that what Trump says is what he believes deep down. New Yorkers one and all have a degree of “liberal” thoughts – that’s who they are.
ReplyDeleteThe primary GOP voters tilt far to the right and conservatism – how far depends on what part of the country we are talking about. And that is who makes up this commanding lead that Donald Trump has built up in a very short time.
Certainly the GOP needs (for their own salvation and continued longevity) to get behind Donald Trump and end this energy & money wasting effort to beat someone they couldn’t with all the baseball bats that the NLB will use this coming season.
Up until Donald Trump popped onto center stage Fox news and the GOP was the only game in town for conservatives. Now we have a practical person in Trump and a pure conservative/constitutionalist in Ted Cruz – the choice couldn’t be clearer. And the GOP/RNC could regain some claim to fame by putting these two together on the ticket.
So who is the charlatan here Megan Kelly, Donald Trump, or Ted Cruz?
ReplyDeleteImmediately following the debate last evening Ms. Kelly while interviewing Ted Cruz stated to accuse him of being things he says he's not. Of talking out of both sides of his mouth.
Who appointed this obvious "bimbo" of reporting the truth - the truth as she sees it wa oh a few hours earlier she was exposing Donald Trump for the world to see.
What a two faced looser