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The Democrats have engaged in “sexual blackmail” of Republicans for years, whether true or not to the point we just expect and ignore it. It isn’t that we have lowered our morals or become hypocrites, but that we don’t let them use Alinsky’s 4th rule against us.
And yet, you and everyone else on the left supports biden-harris. It is well established that a vote for the d ticket was a vote for AOC, BLM, rioting and looting.
The best way to get around the C of C is to say that is “unfortunate”.
The Avenatti ploy with Daniels was that she had a photo of herself with Trump at a golf tournament. Lots of those are taken at every golf tournament. Monica had Clinton’s semen on her dress.
That’s Russian disinformation.
David French is all about is showing off that fancy gold-plated set of morals he has, all sparkly and barely used in their velvet-lined display case. His basic approach to politics is that the Right should behave like Christians in first century A.D. Rome, choosing to martyrdom in the Colosseum by the braying Leftist mobs with no sort of meaningful resistance if the alternative is to do anything that would be appear less than completely saintly. It’s a good way to become lion feces, but no way to win elections or influence policy.
And I can understand someone feeling they just dislike Trump and not voting or voting third party. But to vote for the opposition and campaign against the Party standard bearer using Dem’s talking points and trying to persuade others against him, many times using the fake news and fake Russian/Ukraine hoax crap, well that is too much to stomach. At that point they are just being traitors as far as I’m concerned.
How is voting for a senile candidate with a history of graft and grift and a communist running mate virtuous?
Then why would Trump pay her $130,000 for her silence?
Why does Congress use taxpayer dollars to do the same.
You just answered your question – it’s cheaper and easier to buy silence, which has little to do with anything she claims being true or not.
In other words, throw money at the problem.
I can’t believe we’re going back to the silly Stormy Daniels saga. NeverTrumpers are sick and desperate.
Speaking of Never Trump as an S&M bondage fantasy movie…..
I think this is the essence of our debased discourse. It reminds one of all those brave souls who oppose racism.
Just go away. Please.
You’ve heard the old saying: Don’t wrestle with a pig. You just get dirty and the pig enjoys it.
This is the binary outcome of the Trump first term I see most commonly described. I’ve come to view Donald Trump’s effect differently and larger than the GOP. I think his Presidency clearly delineated the line between globalism and nationalism (in its best sense), both in the USA and abroad. What the Trump presidency has shown me is that in the United States that line politically is less Republican/Democrat than it is uniparty/traditional American.
Everyone has a hierarchy of what is most important. For example, mine in order of importance would be God, family, friends, country if it’s a democratic republic that allows individual freedom. Political party affiliation I place significantly lower: I’m going to vote for individual candidates that adhere closest to the Bill of Rights.
Whatever rationale is given for doing so, people who may not agree with the entire Democrat agenda but found a socialist ticket that is not friendly to faith or family preferable to someone who (surprisingly) governs more traditionally American, placed faith/family/country lower in importance. Knowing all this and still finding Donald J. Trump too flawed to stomach in the White House is a matter of form, not substance, I think.
Underlying many comments here and elsewhere is the sense that the choice to vote for Donald Trump is about his uniquely pro-American governance, the antithesis of the uniparty and its global allegiance. After four decades of increasingly outward-focused presidents, these voters do not care so much whether a candidate is Republican as whether he/she’s going to safeguard American freedoms and promote American prosperity. They — we — are not going to want to go back to uniparty GOP business as usual.
And ignores how awful Biden and Harris are.