The happier most conservatives should be. Chris Christie is not anyone I would ever vote for. I'd happily vote for Donald Trump before Christie. Christie reminds me of John McCain, but without the charm. To me, he comes off as a two bit school yard bully hypocrite who will willingly throw most conservatives under the bus in order to suck up to the leftwing party machine. Sure, there's just enough of the radical in the Democrats to keep him a Republican - for now. And he's clearly betting that by kissing up to the MSM/Democrat narratives of conservatives being infested by stupid tin hat hayseeds, they might push him to the front of the pack in 2024.
Nonetheless, I would never vote for a man who tells government workers asking for raises that every penny is needed so suck on it ... excuse me, the State's helicopter is here to fly me to my son's games. That level of elitism sucks I don't care which party is doing it. And spare me the lame excuses. If this is the type of person Republicans, much less conservatives, end up voting for, they'll deserve everything they get. If voting for a pseudo-progressive 'I'm not like those evil right wing types' candidate like GW Bush taught us anything, it's don't vote for candidates who do their best to promote the worst stereotypes of you in order to curry favor with those you're desperately trying to resist.
Yup, nope!
ReplyDeleteI think that's why DT was so unexpected. Usually the elite give us our choices, choices of which they all approve of fundamentally even if they outwardly disagree. (And they probably only accepted him being the R nominee because they never thought he could actually WIN!) So if anything, the DT experience gave us a glimpse at what is happening behind the scenes. And the elites still have the temerity to think they can fool everyone by just lying outright, even though they can't quite hide it anymore. I'm disgusted by it, but not nearly as disgusted by it as those who have just given up and unapologetically thrown their lot with them - as if they still somehow have goodwill towards those they rule, er... govern. Willful stupidity at a certain point, but for what gain? If Christie were to become the R nominee then I know plenty of regular R voters who wouldn't vote for him. But that would probably by the elite's design as well.
DeleteI've said before, I didn't vote for Trump, and he stood for and said many things I chaffed over. But you're right, like drawing puss from a wound, he showed the deep disease that infects our nation - an elitist oligarchy not giving two damns or a hell about anything but the ruling class - and almost proud of it. Where we go from here, I don't know. But I'm glad conservatives are beginning to realize that 1) the GOP is not that pathway to salvation, 2) defending capitalism is not the same as defending corporate interests, and 3) some unity of purpose must happen or it will all be lost, at least on the national scale.
DeleteI don't know where to go either. Earlier in this century I still would have thought the Catholic Church was on the path to righting things again. Haha! Silly me looking back. But I had no idea really how deep the rot went still, and I couldn't have foreseen how social media would just skew all things, even in the Church. Subsequently, those who I thought I would be fighting the good fight with I now weirdly find myself on the opposite side on in many instances.
DeleteHowever, my sense is whatever is to be done it must be local, and it must support the family. (So it must be very Chestertonian!)
I'm feeling very much like everything at the national level is a wash at this point. Our Church leaders, our political leaders, our military leaders, our entertainment leaders, our big corporation leaders, our national media... all corrupt. Local is where you can still affect things directly, politically and otherwise. You can still find good priests and parishes locally too.
I would like to see a mass exodus from public schooling though. I actually think that alone would be huge. And alternative higher learning opportunities. The idol of educational credentials is one that is pervasive even in homeschooling circles. I've seen way too many kids come from conservative homes, even homeschooling, who go left when they leave home and go on to higher education. Some is understandable rebellion, but mostly it seems they are primed to believe a certain degree of educational certification is the ultimate goal. But to get ahead in the world currently you have to give a pinch of incense to the PC gods/thought of the day. Just my opinion.
At first I thought you were talking about Charlie Crist, who has already become a D. As a matter of fact, that shoe fits quite a lot of feet.
ReplyDeleteYep. Sometimes the different it's impossible to tell a difference unless there is a 'D' or an 'R' on the ticker.
DeleteHe's 59 years old. The only Republican who has been elected to the U.S. Senate in 60=odd years was a man who if anything was to the left of the median of the Democratic caucus. His tenure as governor ended squalidly, with him claiming implausibly that he knew nothing of the prank-vendetta his deputy chief of staff played on the Mayor of Fort Lee. (The federal prosecutocracy subjected her to interminable proceedings before the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously quashed the government's case). Not sure he's even eligible to run for governor again and there are no other statewide elected officials in that state. The most reliably Republican areas of the state are in segments he doesn't live in, so running for Congress is a stretch. He's had his moment as a presidential candidate, and it did not amount to much. He wants a public office, he's going to have to persuade a Republican president to appoint him to one.
ReplyDeleteAnd, in truth, all the trouble in the world, and he refers to not one thing that should be a priority.
I certainly can't believe anyone would vote for him. Certainly most Republicans shouldn't, and conservatives would be fools to do so. I don't think many cared for him then. He initially came out and sounded like a 'buck stops here' fellow, but that image faded quickly, and we were left with that schoolyard bully that seems to assume stupidity on those paying attention to his shenanigans.
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