Difficult for any GOP presidential candidate to be elected with a fractured party. Is Trump able to pull in new voters to party in a meaningful larger number than the conservatives that he exiled? I doubt it.
One point of clarification. Melania Trump did not skip the RNC. She didn’t speak, which is a departure from recent conventions, especially featuring an incumbent (though Trump is a grey zone on that). She didn’t show up until the last day. Melania was there with Donald for his acceptance.
I think 1 of the GOP speakers last night said a republican vote for Harris doesn’t make them a democrat, but it makes them a patriot. That rings true….cuz only 1 candidate is credibly threatening to disregard parts of the constitution.
However, some conservative has also warned that Kamala may not distinguish a vote to deny trump from a vote for her mandate. It would be a mistake for her to tack left in office, and I hope she does not do so, if she is given the chance.
He may not be likable, he won’t answer questions without insulting or slamming his opposition, but in his four years he got things done. Good things. ‘Kamala and Joe are directly responsible for the border crisis, inflation and the housing dilemma that young people are facing now. As it stands, the only thing that Kamala has proposed is price fixing. How can any Republican or Independent vote for that?
If Trump came out tomorrow and both said that he'd respect the results of the upcoming race AND concede in unambiguous terms that he lost the last one and was wrong to try to pressure folks to find otherwise, that would at least earn him the labor of me considering his candidacy. There's a lot of other stuff that he would have to convincingly swear off of (such as leaving the DoJ alone), but it's the election denialism that earns the automatic NO from me.
The border "crisis" is a long-running issue, one of the root causes being that we don't fund the system enough to process applications and asylum claims in a timely manner. This leads to abuse of the asylum claim system: the only way to change that is via legislation, which Trump opposes.
Housing is one that has little to do with any Federal policy, instead being an issue with zoning at the local level. It's one of those issues that actually transcends partisan politics, in that it is the haves (home/landowners) vs the have-nots (renters/potential buyers/etc...). And yet: Trump has taken the side of NIMBYs, and has boasted about keeping poor people out of the suburbs. Harris has proposed incentivizing building more housing units.
On inflation: please let me know how universal tariffs on imports, mass deportation, and devaluation of the dollar will be anything other than massively inflationary moves - 'cause that's Trump's plan.
Quoting Patrick Chovanec as for why Republicans support Harris/Walz: "I don't believe that Harris/Walz will move the country in the right direction. But I believe they will preserve the system that will allow it to move in the right direction. That's why I'm voting for them, and against Trump/Vance."
As we've discussed, conservatives actually care about conserving our liberal order: the GOP is not conservative, and a danger to our liberal order.
Kamala Harris says hardly anything in public about her views and policies these days. The democrat hero and current Harris mentor, Barack Obama, says the Constitution is a hinderance to his style of governing.
No, she only said she wants price controls, national Healthcare totally run through Medicare, and mandatory gun buybacks. So, she is saying she wants to be a dictator without actually saying it. Have a good one.
Dude find a new word. Kamala ain’t great but it’s not communism by any sane definition of the word. If “red scare” is all the present GOP have got, that’s pretty lame.
Difficult for any GOP presidential candidate to be elected with a fractured party. Is Trump able to pull in new voters to party in a meaningful larger number than the conservatives that he exiled? I doubt it.
One point of clarification. Melania Trump did not skip the RNC. She didn’t speak, which is a departure from recent conventions, especially featuring an incumbent (though Trump is a grey zone on that). She didn’t show up until the last day. Melania was there with Donald for his acceptance.
Thanks for the clarification/correction.
Kinzinger is speaking today, to my knowledge.
I think 1 of the GOP speakers last night said a republican vote for Harris doesn’t make them a democrat, but it makes them a patriot. That rings true….cuz only 1 candidate is credibly threatening to disregard parts of the constitution.
However, some conservative has also warned that Kamala may not distinguish a vote to deny trump from a vote for her mandate. It would be a mistake for her to tack left in office, and I hope she does not do so, if she is given the chance.
He may not be likable, he won’t answer questions without insulting or slamming his opposition, but in his four years he got things done. Good things. ‘Kamala and Joe are directly responsible for the border crisis, inflation and the housing dilemma that young people are facing now. As it stands, the only thing that Kamala has proposed is price fixing. How can any Republican or Independent vote for that?
Easy - we Kamala-voting Republicans and independents know that she'll respect the outcome of the election, even if it doesn't fall in her favor.
A REALLY low bar to clear, but only one side is meeting that standard this time.
Then if Trump says he’ll respect the election results, he’ll get your votes? (LOL it wasn’t a serious question)
If Trump came out tomorrow and both said that he'd respect the results of the upcoming race AND concede in unambiguous terms that he lost the last one and was wrong to try to pressure folks to find otherwise, that would at least earn him the labor of me considering his candidacy. There's a lot of other stuff that he would have to convincingly swear off of (such as leaving the DoJ alone), but it's the election denialism that earns the automatic NO from me.
The border "crisis" is a long-running issue, one of the root causes being that we don't fund the system enough to process applications and asylum claims in a timely manner. This leads to abuse of the asylum claim system: the only way to change that is via legislation, which Trump opposes.
Housing is one that has little to do with any Federal policy, instead being an issue with zoning at the local level. It's one of those issues that actually transcends partisan politics, in that it is the haves (home/landowners) vs the have-nots (renters/potential buyers/etc...). And yet: Trump has taken the side of NIMBYs, and has boasted about keeping poor people out of the suburbs. Harris has proposed incentivizing building more housing units.
On inflation: please let me know how universal tariffs on imports, mass deportation, and devaluation of the dollar will be anything other than massively inflationary moves - 'cause that's Trump's plan.
If you are a Republican now supporting Harris/Walz, you are flirting with Communism. On a side note, there were a few democrats who spoke at the RNC.
I'll keep flirting, then, with my two small businesses, and a history of supporting open and fair markets.
And you will eventually lose those businesses because open and fair markets will cease to be a thing.
People have been saying that for as long as I've had them, but they're healthy as ever.
You can only claim that the sky is falling a limited number of times before folks start looking at you as Chicken Little.
People have voted for their own demise many times in the past. Just one example: Venezuela
I'm confident that you'll wring your hands enough for the both of us.
But isn't it better if you don't vote for your own demise? Then neither one of us will wring our hands.
Yawn. Get new material.
And you, as well, sir.
How witty.
The truth hurts, I know.
Liberalism > Illiberalism.
Quoting Patrick Chovanec as for why Republicans support Harris/Walz: "I don't believe that Harris/Walz will move the country in the right direction. But I believe they will preserve the system that will allow it to move in the right direction. That's why I'm voting for them, and against Trump/Vance."
As we've discussed, conservatives actually care about conserving our liberal order: the GOP is not conservative, and a danger to our liberal order.
I don't agree.
The GOP is not conservative, but the Democrats are vastly less so, to the point of being openly Marxist/Communist.
The candidate for the GOP has stated he wants to terminate the Constitution, and to be a dictator on day one.
The candidate for the Democrats has not.
Have a good one!
Kamala Harris says hardly anything in public about her views and policies these days. The democrat hero and current Harris mentor, Barack Obama, says the Constitution is a hinderance to his style of governing.
No, she only said she wants price controls, national Healthcare totally run through Medicare, and mandatory gun buybacks. So, she is saying she wants to be a dictator without actually saying it. Have a good one.
Enacting legislation does not a dictator make.
So, the so-called conservatives who are voting Harris/Walz could be compared to the Lincoln Project, yes?
Dude find a new word. Kamala ain’t great but it’s not communism by any sane definition of the word. If “red scare” is all the present GOP have got, that’s pretty lame.
To quote Johnathan Swift, "There are none so blind as those who will not see."