(07-01-2018 12:54 PM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote:  

(06-30-2018 07:35 AM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(06-29-2018 10:53 PM)usmbacker Wrote:  Lets not forget the Never Trumper on this board. Hope he is enjoying Tump's success.

I am.

But, I'm nothing like the neo-cons described in this article. Since Trump's election win, I have supported him and wished for him to succeed. My concerns with Trump were his long history of being a democrat, campaign style, lack of experience, concerns about his morality, and New York background. No offense, but being a Texan, I've always been skeptical of Northern Republicans. I still believe Ted Cruz would be a fine President some day, but.....

Trump has done more for the nation in his short time in office then any President in my lifetime, even more then Reagan. I was wrong about Trump. I openly admit it. He has proven to be a better conservative then past Republican Presidents. I still have concerns about whether he is a good man, but I now have no doubt that he is a fine President. Unless he does something severely stupid, I will gladly be voting for him in 2020.

What this article calls the collapse of the Never-Trumpers, is really the reunification of the Republican Party. That is a great thing for conservatives. dems should be very concerned heading into November.

Very classy reply by SSJ, to what appears to me like a completely unnecessary provocation.

I'll take it a step further. Trump is a good president -- much better than I was expecting. But he remains an embarrassment, and has come very near to squandering opportunities to get this nation out of its Obama funk by his inability to keep his yap shut when he holds a winning hand. (The only thing that has bailed him out, over and over, is the total insanity of the left, which continually insists on stepping in Trump's nasty and blundering piles and the proceeding to run all around with it on their shoes -- to the point that people forget that it was Trump's mess to begin with.)

You don't have to be a good person to be a good president. Ted Cruz is a prick, but it's my opinion that he would have been a much better president. Mitt Romney also, if he'd had the gumption to run again in 2016 -- and he is at least arguably a good person. (My assumption here, of course, is that either Cruz or Romney could have defeated the corrupt hag. There is no way to prove this. If your assumption is that ONLY Trump could have won, then I'll have to concede that we are lucky to have him as our president.)

This country is great, all on its own. Trump is succeeding because, once you get past his nonsense, his policies are generally in line with American freedom, security and entrepreneurship. Good for him. Get us a solid Constitutioalist on the Supreme Court, and maybe I'll finally come around to "great for him".

But I really don't think it's particularly helpful for the MAGA crowd to at this point be doing an "in your face" to Never Trumpers, who at the end want nothing more than what is best for this nation.

Romney would have been a horrible president, if you consider leftist policies horrible.

He is establishment and RINO.

Frankly, he'll be a horrible senator.


As far as Cruz goes. I like the guy. I appreciate the stands he takes and I know he's for the people given that Senate Democrats and RINOs go after him. In my book, that means he gets it and he makes it uncomfortable for him.

And, yes, he'd have been a good POTUS.

Maybe he might be a good SC Justice one day.