From: Conservative HQ
by - Richard A. Viguerie, CHQ Chairman | 6/3/2016
On December 9, 2015 when I endorsed Ted Cruz for President I said, “conservatives and Republicans are often not the same. However, they definitely have one thing in common: They desperately want to win the White House in 2016. For Democrats this election is important, but for Republicans and conservatives 2016 is not just crucial to the survival of this country and constitutional liberty – it is the ball game.”
In the seven months since I made that statement the picture has gotten bleaker than it was back then. I still think Ted Cruz is the best candidate conservatives had in the race, but he is unfortunately not the candidate who won a majority of the delegates – that distinction goes to Donald Trump – and it is to Trump that right-of-center voters will have to look if our country and constitutional liberty are to survive.
by - Richard A. Viguerie, CHQ Chairman | 6/3/2016
On December 9, 2015 when I endorsed Ted Cruz for President I said, “conservatives and Republicans are often not the same. However, they definitely have one thing in common: They desperately want to win the White House in 2016. For Democrats this election is important, but for Republicans and conservatives 2016 is not just crucial to the survival of this country and constitutional liberty – it is the ball game.”
In the seven months since I made that statement the picture has gotten bleaker than it was back then. I still think Ted Cruz is the best candidate conservatives had in the race, but he is unfortunately not the candidate who won a majority of the delegates – that distinction goes to Donald Trump – and it is to Trump that right-of-center voters will have to look if our country and constitutional liberty are to survive.
And make no mistake, this election is about
the survival of the country that Donald Trump has promised to make
great again. Obama, Hillary Clinton and their far-left allies have
increased the tempo of their assaults on constitutional liberty and the
external threats to our national security and domestic tranquility have
grown ever greater.
Why then, in the face of the
indisputable threats facing our country, would mature men and women who
purport to be leaders of the Republican Party and the conservative
movement do anything that strengthens Hillary Clinton, that gives her
even one more vote?
I find it very strange that many of
the same individuals who decry Donald Trump’s deviations from
conservative orthodoxy were quick to try to explain away the Romney
family’s support for Planned Parenthood and other decidedly
anti-conservative organizations and institutions.
And I find it stranger still that many
of the Republicans and alleged conservatives who huddle over their
smartphones tweeting outrage over Trump’s kneecapping of his various
primary opponents were on strict radio silence when Romney did much the
same thing to Newt Gingrich.
If you are angry and think Trump can’t
be trusted or that he won’t fulfill his promises I say grow up and get
in the real world – no politician, including Ronald Reagan the greatest
president of my life time, fulfills 100% of their campaign promises.
The question is not will Trump bat
1000? It is will Trump try to undo the damage eight years of Obama and a
feckless GOP Congress have inflicted upon America? And the undoubted
answer to that is YES.
And in this dangerous environment I
can think of nothing that is more disrespectful of the dire situation
facing our country than the idea lately propounded by Bill Kristol that
some obscure writer for National Review has a legitimate claim to enter
the presidential contest because Donald Trump is not a conservative –
this is nothing more than a fraternity house prank, and a demeaning one
at that.
For those who say they are
#NeverTrump because “Donald Trump is not a conservative” on this and
that issue I’m curious as to what version of conservatism they subscribe
to – the George W. Bush version that says Islam is a religion of peace
and led us into an apparently endless and inconclusive war in the Middle
East, or the Donald Trump version that says defeat radical Islam
wherever we find it?
Or maybe it is the Paul Ryan version
of conservatism that says we should fund Obama’s extra-constitutional
amnesty for illegal aliens, the Planned Parenthood Industry of Death and
a grotesque list of crony government raids on the taxpayers for things
like “green energy” and bailouts of Puerto Rico?
The fact of the matter is that when
one examines the views of many of the Republican and allegedly
conservative #NeverTrump holdouts they are a lot closer to Hillary
Clinton and the rest of the DC elite than they are to the views of the
millions of country class citizens who turned-out to support Donald
Trump.
Many #NeverTrump adherents seem
to reject even a conversation about the threat of radical Islam. They
are all about the econometric model of open borders that is supported by
both the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and far-left racial interest groups,
and they have no interest in cutting spending or limited government,
because government power is how they enforce their elitist views on the
rest of us.
If this is standing for conservative
principles I must have missed a turn in the road between the day in 1961
when I was hired as Executive Secretary of Young Americans for
Freedom and today’s debate over whether or not the congressional
Republican leaders who presided over an 80%+ increase in a national debt
that now stands at over $18 trillion should get their hands dirty by
endorsing Donald Trump.
The news media and DC’s elite pundits
like to dance around the facts with euphemisms like “spoiler,” but it is
time for those Republicans and conservatives who say they are
#NeverTrump to come clean and to look in the mirror and repeat this
list:
I’m OK with Hillary Clinton appointing three or four Supreme Court Justices.
I’m OK with Hillary Clinton appointing hundreds of Federal Court Judges.
I’m OK with Hillary Clinton stripping me of my Second Amendment rights.
I’m OK
with Hillary Clinton using the power of the IRS and other federal
agencies to terminate my First Amendment rights and the First Amendment
rights of other Conservatives.
I’m OK with Hillary Clinton expanding Obama’s open borders and unlimited immigration policies.
And, I’m
OK with the Hillary Clinton deciding the outer limits of my freedom of
conscience and whether or not I can worship God and raise my children as
my conscience dictates.
I say to anyone who claims to be
a #NeverTrump conservative, look in the mirror and read that list, and
if this is you, then be honest and admit that you prefer Hillary Clinton
in the White House and why. Then drop the charade and have the guts to
defend your choice to advance Hillary Clinton’s campaign and take
ownership of the destruction of liberty and constitutional government
that her election will surely bring.
God bless,
JohnnyD
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