What Will Happen in January
Al Ritter
This has certainly been a year full of political
disappointments, and sadly we have all lost friends over their political
stances both in Dem vs Rep contests but also Rep vs other Republicans. This
weeks’ announcement by Ted Cruz to support the Republican nominee has brought
about all new heated controversies. It seems the Republican Party has become so
fractured now it’s hard to believe it will ever survive.
So you understand where I am coming from, I’ll tell you that
I recently left the Republican Party for the sole reason that the RNC refused
to renounce the practice of open primaries, allowing the Democratic Party to
make the choice of the Republican nominee in the presidential election.
A lot of you will be angry at my views, but at this point in
time, I really don’t care anymore, because my view is now that of an “unaffiliated
party” voter.
I view the choice between the two present majority party
choices as such. If the choice is between the lesser of two evils, I really
don’t see a clear choice. Both candidates have taken advantage of the 2014
SCOTUS ruling of “Susan B. Anthony List vs Driehaus” where lying in political
campaigns is now legal based on the 1st Amendment. They have both
lied continually, and in fact both are unindicted felons in different frauds
perpetrated on the American Public, and the DOJ refuses to act on either! We as
citizens would already be serving time in prison had we done the things that
either Trump of Clinton have done, but we keep allowing it to happen, and
neither serves the time they deserve in Federal Prison.
As a result America will be the largest loser regardless of
who wins this election.
Now this is how I view the results of the election based on
who wins. If Trump wins; I see 100% aggressive behavior from the Democratic
Party to ANY actions Mr Trump makes, and I hardly think this can be a statement
that anyone can argue. Furthermore I can see an act of aggression of maybe 20%
of the Republican Congress against Trump. You may disagree with this percentage
but the fact is there WILL be some, call them RINO’s or whatever you wish. If
Trump wins there will be NO primary challenge in the 2020 Presidential election
unless Trump himself doesn’t want to run for another term, and to be honest I
can’t ever see that happening. If Trump wins the SCOTUS is still a toss-up. Far
smarter Republican Presidents have made poor choices in appointing
conservatives to the court. But Trump has a history of supporting candidates
that want to destroy the conservative cause so whether he appoints
conservatives is NOT a given at this point. Trump says he wants to repeal
Obamacare but only to the point of replacing it with a single payer system like
Obama originally wanted. Trump has already abandoned his aggressive stance
against illegal immigration and it’s only a matter of time before his claim to
build a wall disappears too. There are so many stances that Trump had in his
campaign that have already been either abandoned or reversed, everything he now
considers to be mere “suggestions” with no clear policy standards and certainly
no clear fiscal path to achieve those vague goals. His reluctance to ask for
help on subjects he clearly knows nothing about have signaled to many
Republican foreign policy experts that his questions on the use of nuclear
weapons has alarmed many in his own party.
If Hillary wins; she will continue to lie and forward the
same agenda her predecessor has done for the last 8 years. She will never be
prosecuted for Benghazi nor will she be prosecuted for the Clinton Foundation
money laundering or pay for play schemes. She will have the support of 100% of
Democrats in Congress and about 20% or the same RINO’s that have supported
every agenda that Obama has put forward in the last 8 years including
Obamacare. Her Supreme Court appointments will most certainly be all liberal
Justices. There is however a strong possibility that there could be health
issues in a Hillary Clinton Presidency that could end her career prematurely.
Although her political career has been plagued with falsehoods omissions and
outright lies much in the way Trump’s has, her past history shows very few
signs of mental instability but rather an insatiable quest for more power.
Both candidates show signs of being pathological lairs but
Trump has clearly set the path of a 91% lying record, placing him at the top of
the falsehood heap, so to pick either one with the idea that one isn’t as bad
as the other is an asinine idea that will destroy America!
Congress; If Hillary wins I believe the seats in the Senate
will become filled with more Democrats but I doubt they will take the majority,
at least not until the next election cycle. The House will continue as the
stronghold for Republicans. If Trump wins I see the senate staying in
Republican control, but only temporarily as the public’s faith in the
Republican President will quickly erode and the Senate will be lost in the next
election. The public will place even further blame on the remaining Republican
Senators and they will lose their seats to the left. The balance of legislative
power will be in the hands of the President to either gain or lose power based
solely on their performance. The public already knows what a Presidency under
Clinton will be; it will be like a third term of Obama with only small changes.
The public has NO idea what a Presidency under Trump would be like, his
character is not consistent, his temperament is far from mature, and his
policies and how to pay for them are totally devoid of logic or reason.
Some people are upset with Ted Cruz’s endorsement of Donald
Trump, but they need to understand one thing. Ted Cruz wants to run for
President again in the closest possible time frame. Cruz has no choice other than to run as a
Republican, he would flounder as a 3rd party candidate, and he can’t
risk spending time building another party while running for President at the
same time. Understand that he hasn’t given up his principles, but instead is
being blackmailed by Reince Priebus. He is a victim of the RNC and Donald
Trump, and his supporters shouldn’t feel betrayed by him, they should vent
their anger at what the RNC has done to a conservative rather than to label him
as a traitor. If you can’t see your way to continuing support of Ted Cruz the
conservative idea WILL die in this election cycle never to return, there will
be no torch bearer into the next election cycle.
In short, this Presidential term will be filled by either
Trump or Clinton…………how long the misery continues will be up to the voter, but
understand that under either candidate there is NO guarantee there will be ANY
conservative policies either introduced or passed. You lost the ability to vote
for a conservative in the primary when your party allowed Democrats to vote in
that contest!
