Well, I make it no secret, my first choice for the Republican Presidential race 4 years ago was Rick Perry and this year was Scott Walker. I guess I pick losers. :P
But I like Trump and I will be voting for him. Why? Well first, unlike most of my under 35 year old friends, I have been following politics since 1992, and Hillary is aweful. I oddly enough remember that election. I remember Vince Foster, Hillary's desire for a single payer government health care, and I remember the Contract with America.
I remember when she destroyed the lives of many with her Rose Law Firm mortgage scam, and, like her email issue today, lost all of the relevant records.
I remember when Bill shipped millions of jobs to China with the most favored nation trading partner status.
I remember when the Chinese gave millions illegally to his re-election bid around the same time - the Clintons apparently got better, since now they created a foundation for all their 'pay for play deals'. Did you know that term was in one of the emails she deleted from her 'private server?'
I remember how China somehow got nuclear weapons right after all that (which oddly enough, their desire for nukes comes from America's thumping of the Iraqi army in the first Gulf War, but that is a different post).
Do you remember them giving the Lincoln Bedroom to high dollar donators?
Do you remember the bombing of Kosovo in the middle of his impeachment?
Can you name one accomplishment Hillary made in the Senate?
What about as Secretary of State?
Since she isn't running on that experience, I think we all agree it was a failure.
Did you know she sent emails marked as classified over a non-secure network and then deleted them 3 weeks after she was ordered not to with a preservation of records order?
These are just a few of the reasons I could never vote with Hillary.
That being said, many people are mad at Trump for saying crazy things. And I think there are some crazy things he has said, but when you look at his actual policy positions, he is mostly reasonable. If anything, he is too moderate on many traditional conservative Christian issues. However, he is the best hope we have to get some of those goals achieved and is more likely than anyone else to nominate Justices that will overturn Roe v Wade.
Besides, and I can't say this more strongly, we are electing a president, not a king or the head of the church. Any excesses of the President should be checked by Congress and the Judiciary. So I think we have to take the best we can get.
Because when it really comes down to it, all Christians want a one world government overseen by a dictator - we just want that dictator to be Christ and his Kingdom!
There are also a lot of people I know who are going to vote third party. I understand you want to do this; however, if you want to go with a third party, you have to set the ground work 3-4 years before the election, not 3-4 months. Also, Trump beat 16 other candidates, 14 of which I would have been thrilled to have running. If we take nothing else away from this election, we Conservatives need to pick someone early in the election cycle and stick with them. We need to accept good, instead of hoping for perfect and being stuck with the opposite. RINOs keep wining with 33-35% of the primary vote (Dole, McCain, Romney), with the remainder going to conservative candidates, so there is no reason a true conservative couldn't win the primary.
I think though that the biggest change of this election is that it appears we may have reached a turning point with trade, immigration, and prosperity. Like all socialist ideals, the social globalist appear to be running out of America's money. And here is the thing, it shouldn't have been this way. We Americans have exported our jobs, technology, ideology, power, and military all over the world.
The one thing we haven't exported are the unions. And I blame the Democrats and their union buddies for letting millions of people in Mexico and China work for pennies a day. They go on strike here if they don't make $30 an hour, with benefits, and 6 weeks of paid time off, when their blue collar 'brothers' in China are working for 30 cents a day without benefits or time off. And then they are surprised when businesses move their operations overseas! This is outrageous! I guess they were too busy playing golf on their memberships dime.
So, in my opinion, if unions were in other countries fighting for better wages over there, there would be better wages here (and Trump would just be a TV personality)!
Instead, we have what we have today, where no one is happy.
Which, oddly enough, is always the result of socialism.
