The five blatantly false rationalizations Republicans will use to vote for Donald Trump

[Valin]

Quatz:

John J. Pitney, Jr.

Mar. 15 2016

 

In The Big Chill (1983), Jeff Goldblum’s character said that rationalizations are more important than sex: “Ever gone a week without a rationalization?”

 

With many more primaries left in this presidential election cycle, top Republicans may have plenty of rationalizations in their future. So far, prevailing sentiment among the GOP leadership has been that Donald Trump is a fraud, bully, demagogue, and nativist. But as he draws ever closer to the party’s presidential nomination, we may start to see more and more conservatives start to cave, à la Chris Christie and Ben Carson.

 

The seductive thing about rationalizations is the way they invariably lead down a path of falsehood by starting with a scrap of truth. Chain smokers sometimes survive into old age, and for someone with a two-pack-a-day habit, such anecdotes offer a handy way to dismiss the conclusive evidence that smoking causes lung cancer and heart disease.

 

Trump endorsers will no doubt embrace their own equivalents of the elderly chain smoker. Here are a few:

 

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He’s bad, but Hillary Clinton’s worse.

For conservatives, this one may be the most honest. Close, but no cigar. On a variety of issues, such as trade and entitlement reform, his positions are arguably as liberal as Clinton’s. True, Republicans would dislike her Supreme Court appointments, but it is far from clear that Trump’s picks would be any more conservative. He once said that his very pro-choice sister (a federal judge) would be a “phenomenal” justice. He later claimed that he was joking, but he has given little indication that he has given any thought to broad issues of constitutional interpretation. He has talked about judges “signing” bills, which suggests that he has not even read the Constitution.

 

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[nickydog]

Trump will be 70 in June?! For some reason it had never occurred to me to wonder how old he is.

[SrWoodchuck]

Nice hit piece. Really liked this quote from the link, by Ole Henry:

 

As for learning on the job, Henry Kissinger wrote that high office “consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it."

 

 

I'd say Oblunder will leave office with his brain sucked dry...but that precludes his having had one to begin with...instead of an overwhelming drive to completely "change" Amerika.

 

I don't know why you all hate on the Donald...he just wants to be loved. Is that so wrong? [/sarc]