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2016-05-12 Home Front: Politix
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Five Reasons My Fellow Republicans Should Vote for Hillary Clinton
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[BLOGS.WSJ] Andrew Weinstein is CEO of Ridgeback Communications. He was director of media relations for the Dole/Kemp presidential campaign and was deputy press secretary to then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
He was responsible for dumbass ideas, I guess.
Last week John Feehery, a former colleague of mine in the House leadership staff, offered five reasons that he supports Donald Trump and thinks that other Republicans should too. Here, in response, are five reasons Republicans should consider voting for Hillary Clinton.
1. We are Americans first and foremost, not Republicans. Voting for Mr. Trump as a duty of party membership misunderstands the proper role of a political party. Parties exist to represent the interests of their members, not to issue diktats on how to vote, particularly over a candidate anathema to the members’ core beliefs.
Depends on your core beliefs. If it's your core belief that you've voted for "conservative" house and senate candidates for years and watched them cave to the Party of Plunder, then you don't want to do it again because you're tired of being lied to.
A vote is a decision of individual conscience. A vote for president should be determined by judgment of a candidate’s emotional, intellectual, and professional fitness to hold the nation’s highest office. Questions have been raised about Mrs. Clinton’s character and actions, but she has proven herself qualified on all three of these points.
I'd say she's been proven undesirable on each point. Emotionally she's been an enabler of her husband in his serial sexual conquests. Intellectually she's espoused virtually every cause "conservatives" claim to be against: gun control, abortion, you name it. She is the antithesis of a conservative. Professionally? As Secretary of State she was a disaster. As senator from New York she was a chair warmer. In many ways, being a Republican consists of not being a Democrat: the Party of Lincoln as opposed to the Party of Boss Tweed.
2. Donald Trump is neither a conservative nor a Republican. Look at the policy records of Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Trump, and you’d be hard-pressed to tell who is the Republican.
But it's easy enough to tell which one's the politician.
Mr. Trump has supported a range of liberal Democratic positions, and he has not adequately explained his reversal on his long-standing positions on universal health care and Second Amendment rights, nor his shifts on abortion. Now that his primary rivals are gone, Mr. Trump’s conservatism-of-convenience is being replaced by more liberal stances on potential tax increases and a minimum-wage hike.
It's the chance we take against the certainty of what we'd get. Devil? Deep blue sea? The writer suggests going with the devil we're familiar with.
3. Presidential respect for the Constitution is critical. Throughout this campaign, Mr. Trump has shown ignorance of and disregard for our nation’s Charters of Freedom. He has questioned the media’s First Amendment rights, claimed power to order the military to break the law, asserted a presidential prerogative to expand the death penalty through executive order, and proposed targeting religious minorities and birthright citizens through databases and deportation, respectively. To “preserve, protect and defend” our Constitution, a president must also understand it.
And to elect a better constitutional course he suggests Hillary Clinton? I'll stick with Trump on the off chance he's got Newt Gingrich as part of his cabinet.
4. There is no viable third option. Politics is the art of the possible, and the possibilities in this contest are Mrs. Clinton or Mr. Trump. This year’s primaries have been dominated by a “Fight Club” electorate, voters who want to blow up the system rather than work within it, but experience matters in a chief executive.
Trump has way more actual executive experience than the Lady of Chappaqua.
As distasteful as a President Hillary Clinton would be to many, the republic will survive four more years with a liberal in the White House, particularly if that liberal president is blocked by a GOP House and Senate filibuster. Mr. Trump, however, is a threat on a different order of magnitude.
The GOP house blockage and senate filibusters haven't appeared over the past eight years. Suddenly they're going to appear like magick with the election of Hillary Clinton with the support of Publican turncoats? I have grave doubts.
5. The best way to save the GOP is a Clinton victory. A Trump win could create an institutional bond between the GOP and the racist demagoguery and proposals Mr. Trump has espoused while simultaneously abandoning the party’s positive messages of inclusion, growth, prosperity, and individual liberty.
That's taking the Dem position that Trump's a racist. He wasn't one before the campaign started. I suspect strongly that he won't be after the election, regardless of which way it goes. The Wonder Bread Mitt Romney was painted as a racist. McCain was painted as a racist lunatic. Bush was painted as a racist incompetent. It's all racist, all the time. Doesn't it ever get old?
If Republicans rally behind Mr. Trump, the White House is likely to be lost for a generation.
If Trump wins, the party's changed for good -- with a dose of Whiggery added to the mix of conservative and libertarian that are the dominant streams, of which I'd put Trump in the libertarian stream.
Voting for Mrs. Clinton, however, would signal that Republicans will not sacrifice the soul of their party on the altar of an angry authoritarian.
It would usher in four to eight more years of the same poopslide we've been enduring.
A one-time vote for Mrs. Clinton is not an endorsement of her as a person or politician.
Then what is it?
It is a statement that she is the lesser of two evils in a contest in which her opponent threatens the Republican Party and the country.
Some of us regard her as much the greater of two evils. 
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