By Mark Rhoads -
Because I have been very critical of the Trump campaign, I want to emphasize those points that I agree with Trump supporters on and which points i do not.
First, I agree with Trump supporters that the main stream news media is biased against Donald Trump. There is nothing new about that. The TV and elite eastern newspapers owned by liberal publishers, have shown documented bias in both in news reporting and in columns and editorials against every GOP candidate for President since 1960.
Second, I agree that the failure of the FBI to recommend an indictment against Hillary Clinton for her blatant disregard for national security in using a private email server is not something that can be defended.
Third, I agree that Hillary Clinton and the Obama Administration failed to effectively deal with national security threats from ISIS, Al Qaeda, and the Taliban and failed to directly identify and confront radical Islam as the enemy.
Fourth, I agree that our immigration policy is incoherent and fails to protect our borders from potential terrorists.
Fifth, I agree of course that Hillary Clinton would make terrible appointments to the Federal Courts including the Supreme Court, and would have to try to fix Obamacare with higher taxes.
Sixth, I agree that Hillary Clinton would continue to do a terrible job in foreign policy.
My disagreement is this.
First, Donald Trump himself has endorsed many bad protectionist trade policies that his running mate Mike Pence and most GOP leaders in Congress reject.
Second, Donald Trump himself in the last year endorsed the Canadian single-payer socialist health care system that is as bad or worse than Obamacare or anything that Hillary Clinton proposed and yet his supporters choose to ignore that glaring contradiction.
Third, allowing for all the media bias against Trump, he alone has provided them with a lot of useful ammunition to use against him and the media did not put a gun to his head and force him to make crazy tweets against women in the middle of the night or make so many degrading statements about women many times in the last year even before the most recent audio tape of Trump and Bobby Bush recorded by Access Hollywood in 2005.
Last, a conservative Republican President is supposed to take seriously an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States but that is hard to do if a candidate could not even pass a simple high school test on what the Constitution says about the separation of powers and the rule of law.
All these contradictions that Trump himself created leave many Republicans with a terrible dilemma that is almost impossible to resolve because they do not want to vote for Hillary Clinton and they do not want to reward Donald Trump for his own incurable policy of mendacity. For the self-appointed leaders of the Evangelicals and so-called Christian right who demand that we forgive Trump every mistake but never forgive Clinton or fellow Republicans any mistake, I can only remind them that Satan wears many clever disguises and his favorite disguise is to pose as a champion of little people against evil elites.
All candidates and all parties at all times need to be reminded of the wisdom of a great Irish leader:who wrote this: "There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong." — Daniel O'Connell, Irish statesman, 1775-1847.
