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[Geee]

National Review:

The Republican dilemma

 

Any Republican has a difficult pathway to the presidency. On the electoral map, expanding blue blobs in coastal and big-city America swamp the conservative geographical sea of red. Big-electoral-vote states such as California, Illinois, New York, and New Jersey are utterly lost before the campaign even begins. The media have devolved into a weird Ministry of Truth. News seems defined now as what information is necessary to release to arrive at correct views.

 

In recent elections, centrists, like John McCain and Mitt Romney – once found useful by the media when running against more-conservative Republicans — were reinvented as caricatures of Potterville scoundrels right out of a Frank Capra movie.

 

When the media got through with a good man like McCain, he was left an adulterous, confused septuagenarian, unsure of how many mansions he owned, and a likely closeted bigot. Another gentleman like Romney was reduced to a comic-book Ri¢hie Ri¢h, who owned an elevator, never talked to his garbage man, hazed innocents in prep school, and tortured his dog on the roof of his car. If it were a choice between shouting down debate moderator Candy Crowley and shaming her unprofessionalism, or allowing her to hijack the debate, Romney in Ajaxian style (“nobly live, or nobly die”) chose the decorous path of dignified abdication.

In contrast, we were to believe Obama’s adolescent faux Greek columns, hokey “lowering the seas and cooling the planet,” vero possumus seal on his podium as president-elect, and 57 states were Lincolnesque.

Why would 2016 not end up again in losing nobly? Would once again campaigning under the Marquess of Queensberry rules win Republicans a Munich reprieve?

[nickydog]

A fantastically written, well-reasoned defense for holding your nose, if need be, and voting for Trump. This is VDH's version of a rant.

[NCTexan]

Rush highlighted this excellent piece on his show today.

 

VDH uses his trademark common sense approach to a difficult subject.

 

@Geee @nickydog @righteousmomma

[nickydog]

Rush highlighted this excellent piece on his show today.

 

VDH uses his trademark common sense approach to a difficult subject.

 

@Geee @nickydog @righteousmomma

 

Yup, heard Rush talk about it today. But with his limited time he still couldn't do it justice. It needs to be read in full!

[righteousmomma]

HEAR! HEAR!

I like Sr. Woodchuck's favorite line by VDH:

"He is Obama’s nemesis, Hillary’s worst nightmare, and a vampire’s mirror of the Republican establishment."

and I like this one as the bottom line that I said on fb because its truth:

For those of us in opposition to liberal left progressive ideology and for the Republican Party/GOP is VDH's closing statement: "It may be discomforting for some conservatives to vote for the Republican party’s duly nominated candidate, but as this Manichean two-person race ends, it is now becoming suicidal not to."