My fellow conservatives, we have to split the ticket to save the US Constitution | Opinion
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I am a bit conservative. I am pro-life. I love that Donald Trump and his Federalist Society judicial nominees overthrew Roe v. Wade, a lawless example of judicial overreach. I am skeptical of climate change and the extreme environmental agenda. I am glad Trump allowed us to drill our way to energy independence and shut down the Green New Deal. I believe the Second Amendment protects the God-given individual right to self defense and for me to own my AR-15 along with the high capacity magazines that make it a blast to shoot. Trump’s indifference to calls for gun control is exactly the right stance. I believe China is a menace that competes unfairly. Trump was exactly right to impose big tariffs and begin the process of decoupling our economy from the dangerous totalitarian state. I am the great-grandson of immigrants on both sides of my family who came after World War I — some of them to St. Joseph, Missouri — but I agree with Trump that immigration is out of control. I am all for shutting down illegal immigration, deporting as many undocumented immigrants as we can and rethinking the way we do legal immigration to put American interests first.
But I will be forcing myself to trudge to the polls and pulling the lever for Kamala Harris, the most awful, socialism-friendly, fake Democratic presidential candidate of my lifetime. I feel so strongly that I have handmade a sign I put outside my house in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District where our one (blue dot) electoral vote may hold the key to putting her in the White House. The reasons I will vote against Trump are searingly clear and undebatable. I am an Army veteran sworn to uphold the Constitution and a conservative who reveres the institutions of our democratic republic. Trump tried to overthrow our 250-year-old system of government on Jan. 6, 2021. He tried to force then Vice President Mike Pence to ignore the Constitution and our votes. He emitted a blizzard of lies for months that drove his true believers to storm the Capitol, bringing violence into our political system in the most dangerous way since the Civil War.
A vote for Trump could be my last vote if he has his way. I am also a Christian an Eagle Scout and a husband. Trump is everything I stand against. He treats women like trash — for which he has been found liable for sexual assault. His disregard for his marital oath presaged his disregard for his constitutional oath. He ignores the law whenever it suits him — for which he has been branded a felon. He is utterly without personal responsibility — for which he has gone to bankruptcy court a half dozen times. The best that can be said of him is that he has not violated all of the Ten Commandments, at least that I know of. I am also a father of a son. If my 10-year-old turns out one-tenth as despicable as Trump, I will hide my head in shame. I know exactly how bad Harris is. She is a threat to our conservative Supreme Court, which she wants to pack. She is a threat to the minority rights protected by the Senate filibuster rule which she wants to overturn. She would appoint whackadoo leftists to high positions in our government where they would write regulations I loathe, and she would appoint crime-friendly judges to look the other way while crime goes unpunished.
Conservatives who know the existential threat that Trump represents and who are horrified at what Harris would do as president have more votes than just for president. We can reelect a Republican House of Representatives and give control of the Senate to Republicans. We can elect GOP governors and state legislators and attorneys general, all of whom can put shackles on Harris’ ability to do damage to the country we love. We can hope that the Supreme Court will stand as a bulwark against her worst and most destructive impulses. I hate voting for Kamala Harris, but it is the only conservative thing to do.
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This is a much, much better argument than the nonsensical crap the lincoln project or Kinzinger or cheney put out. The whole "I'm a conservative, but I'm adopting all of Harris's policies and support Democrats up and down the ticket " appeals to exactly no one
Trying to avoid having to hang one's head in shame can lead to strange bedfellows.
So, let me get this straight. This supposed conservative has a problem with Trump that is so great that he's going to vote for someone who stands against everything he believes in? And we're supposed to believe this is somehow rational? The obvious question is why would this person simply not vote or vote for someone else other than his enemy? To use hyperbole, his argument is that he's going to push the button for the bomb that kills us all in order to illustrate his dissatisfaction. Or, like the idiots who douse themselves in gasoline and set themselves on fire. This person is a moron.
If you read this objectively, this conservative is saying that Trump stands against everything he believes in:
This individual (fictional or real) has stated that he disagrees with his perceived policies of Harris but that he considers Trump's integrity, character, intentions, etc. as superseding the Harris negatives.
I did read it objectively. In fact, I agree that Trump doesn't deserve my vote. That, however, isn't the issue. The issue is, in spite of Trump's failure, how can he justify voting for someone diametrically opposed to his values?
Exactly. This individual is ether fictional or a complete moron. I trend towards fictional because I find it hard to believe someone could be this stupid, although there are plenty of examples of such people.
Any contention Kamala Harris is "Diametrically Opposed" to everything good and decent America believes in is ludicrous!
In fact, she is an establishment politician with a long record...
Just like Joe then?...
What are you talking about? I made no mention of your vote or your views. My entire post spoke of this narrative.
Because Trump is antithetical to values he considers more important.
In simpler terms, it looks like he is literally choosing the lesser of two evils (as he sees things).
If you have to choose between chemotherapy and a longer but uncomfortable and less valuable life or taking no treatments (other than pain mitigation) but live a shorter but more valuable life you will be making a choice between what you consider to the least bad option. It is likely a complex choice, but ultimately it boils down to the net quality of life resulting from the entirety of each option.
Seems like a cynical comparison.
Sure, in the same way that a lion is like a tiger because they are both four-legged carnivores and apex predators.
Another example is that a basketball and a baseball are like in that they are both spherical and are both central to a popular USA sport.
Which comparison are you referring to?
The second.
Agreed, a politician is a politician...
Which is 'the second'.
That is not the point I made.
Mmmmkay...
That is not cynical (in any conceivable way), it is an example of choosing between two very bad options.
Or do you have your own special meaning for the word 'cynical'?
Came from nowhere. ⇡
Donald Trump is, easily, the most unfit for office major party candidate for president in US history.
That makes up for a lot of Kamala Harris' flaws, as the writer of this op-ed understands.
And that is precisely how I see things.
Trump is the worst, by far, nominee in my lifetime and likely in our nation's history. He is unfit. He is dangerous.
Harris, in contrast, is a normal D nominee. She will have policies that I find bad (and some that I find to be good) but those negatives are a drop in the bucket compared to the volume of serious negatives brought by Trump.