I know we've been beating this horse to death the last few weeks, and I don't expect a lot of new conversation on this post, but wanted to put it out for those that wish to read it.
Stop Bargaining with your Principles.[...]
But of course now, we all know what I said then: That McCain was a lying scumbag who couldn't be trusted to keep what few campaign vows he was making to the right. That his record was increasingly leftist, increasingly statist, and his view on American military power was the embodiment of the caricature the Left made everyone on the Right out to be. We know now that a vote for McCain would have simply been yet another vote for delaying the inevitable slide for this country into socialism, as McCain is a big-government neoaristocrat who cares little for the people who wanted their "damn fence."
Rubio can't even go so far as to promise a fence. Amnesty in any form is the final state-sponsored sublimation of the cultural heritage our forefathers granted us. Sure he makes a passionate appeal, but if he is a true believer in the power of American soil alone being the incubator of free-market Conservatism, big (R) Republican values and fealty to the real words of the Constitution; and if he likewise believes non-assimilative entry to U.S. citizenship the best antidote to the far-left values illegal immigrants are bringing into the country, then he is worse than a blatant liar farcically claiming Gang of 8 was some sort of 3rd dimensional chess move: He is dangerously deluded and unfit for office.
Trump's stated positions on so many issues through the years have been predominantly leftist and often at odds with whatever next comes out of his mouth, and his few positions he seems firm on (deportation, halting Muslim immigration) are populist cant with only the power of his pen to make happen.
Please read the whole thing.
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=361748
