Uh-oh.
This is the same b.s. we’ve heard for decades from the Republican Party. Oh, if only they could rid themselves of these crazy pro-lifers, the Republican Party would do sooooooooo much better.
Um. Actually we’re the ones who show up. Pro-lifers are the crawl over broken glass voters.
So, once again pro-lifers are supposed to take a back seat to the priorities of the Chamber of Commerce?
Republicans lost because mail in voting. Republicans are once again behind and aren’t yet playing by the new rules. Instead of updating they’re blaming pro-lifers.
To me, it doesn’t seem like a smart strategy for a presidential candidate to attack the base coming into election season. But who knows?
HT Steve Deace
January 2, 2023 at 10:44 am
Trump is now a broken and compromised man, whose courage and integrity publicly failed at the point of test. And this is something he has never acknowledged nor repented. Therefore, he is at best irrelevant to the cause of Good; but more likely a dangerous and delusory hope for desperate Americans – who should know better.
January 2, 2023 at 11:11 am
Given his previous appellation as “the most pro-life president,” this is troubling. In combination with the celebration at Maralago with the Log Cabin Republicans of something that already was a part of American law, one wonders how much of what we saw in him in 2016 was genuine. Certainly, he’s flawed (as we all are), but missing the significance of mail-in balloting and blaming the conservative base, as opposed to the milquetoast country club republicans says we should be concerned and pay very close attention. It may very well be time for him to stop aside. We don’t need a kingmaker. We need a leader whose eye is on helping his country out of a path to ruin. Meanwhile, time for more prayer.
January 2, 2023 at 11:33 am
These sorts of times are when Trump is most ineffective and unimpressive. Politicians are, for the most part, mercenaries, and should be treated as such. One should never confuse their effectiveness against one’s opponents as loyalty, while also remembering they are in it for various reasons; money, power, glory, etc. Once they stop being effective, they should stop being paid, and sometimes you have to hire another mercenary to take care of the former one.
Trump definitely likes money and power, but I think it’s the fame/glory that is what really motivates him. I don’t doubt he probably has some of the actual MAGA-ness in him; after all, we are all a bundle of motivations. For him that motivation- manifested in his ego- is a very sharp double-edged sword. It gives him the ability to think he’s right and push through on something important no matter how much of the political or chattering classes disagree with him; however, it also makes him incredibly vulnerable to flattery, manipulation, etc., and ultimately makes him a poor judge of character, which causes him to surround himself with people who may be fighting against him while smothering him with words of praise and loyalty. While I’m generally opposed to executives ruling by fiat, he needed to exert more power during Covid than he did, instead of handing his presidency over to Facui and the like. I think that the prospect of saving the world from Covid was more tantalizing to him than the exercise of power, and led him to make terrible decisions when his instincts seemed to be largely correct.
Given that I think politicians are mercenaries, I’m not opposed to them getting their money or power or fame or glory as long as they are useful. Trump was able to use his over-size ego to his advantage in 2016 and through the first few years of his administration because he was able to turn it towards things that often aligned with his constituency. And I think that perhaps on some level he understood that. MAGA wasn’t just a slogan; it was the selling of a vision. He likes to be great and known to be great and wants his country to be the same. Those two things didn’t have to be in opposition. Those who supported him did so not because of him per se, but rather because he was giving a voice to those whom much of the rest of the political class had shunned.
What’s happening now, however, seems to be that he has drunk his own Koolaid and doesn’t remember or misunderstands why people elected him the first time. Now him being great and seen as great is starting to rub against MAGA and sparks will fly as constituencies that formerly felt represented now have a potential mercenary who isn’t fighting for them anymore.
January 2, 2023 at 3:32 pm
Or…he’s just paving the way for DeSantis by pretending to go off the rails. He’s not a stupid man. He would not have gotten as far as he has in the world. He knows EVERYthing he says is scrutinized by everyone especially the media. A split ticket of Trump and DeSantis would not be good. So lets give the Governor a shot at it.
As far as being pro-life, he may be or not be but he did the most for the unborn than any president we’ve ever had. He put more conservative justices on the SC than anyone else and we saw what happened with Roe. If he’s a fake pro-lifer than God used him for His own purposes like he uses all of us by His will.