The #nevertrump crowd should get a grip, get over it, or get out of the Republican Party

(Trump.news) Okay, the party elders and a great deal of the Republican electorate have placated the #nevertrump crowd out of respect for their conservative contributions and party loyalty over the years, but enough is enough.

Loud and clear, once and for all: Bill Kristol of The Weekly Standard, if you can’t get off your high horse and endorse the GOP’s presidential nominee, the party doesn’t need you or want you anymore. It is changing, so you’re free to leave, and take the rest of the #nevertrump crowd with you.

It isn’t just that you are sore losers and you’ve made spectacles of yourselves after floating some ridiculous notion that you were going to select a ‘conservative’ candidate to run as a third-party Independent. Now you’re actively hurting the party with your disloyalty and your disunity, because as everyone knows, no third-party candidate has a chance in Hades at winning the presidency. Any candidate you put forth wouldn’t be running against Hillary Clinton, they’d be running against Trump because he’s the one you really don’t like (even less than Hillary – and why is that?) The party doesn’t need that kind of self-destructive attitude or behavior; you GOP Establishment types have made quite a mess of things already, thank you very much.

And as to your self-appointed exalted position of nominee-chooser, can you tell us, please, when was the last time you picked a winner? Oh sure, George W. Bush won a close first election and then handily dispatched the hapless, feckless John Kerry in 2004, yet that was more circumstance than substance. But John McCain? Mitt Romney (almost twice)? Come on.

Remember the also-rans that you had a hand in selecting, like Bob Dole in 1996? Heck, you couldn’t even help a Republican incumbent and two-term vice president, George H. W. Bush, beat a philandering huckleberry from Hope, Arkansas. In fact, we could say (and are saying, actually) that because of your haplessness, you and those like you are partially responsible for saddling the nation with the Clintons for the past two decades. Apology, please.

Speaking of Romney, the #nevertrump crowd is still trying to woo him into helping them steal the nomination from the rightful owner of it, Donald J. Trump. In this open letter to Romney (gee, do you think Romney has read it?) at Kristol’s insignificant Weekly Standard, Jay Cost practically begs the former Massachusetts governor and backer of his state’s own version of Obamacare to run again:

I write to you not as a fellow conservative, not as a fellow partisan, but as a citizen of our republic. You have served your nation admirably for many years and by any ordinary standard are entitled to a happy retirement. But these are extraordinary times, and your nation still has need of your service. I respectfully implore you to run for president as an independent candidate in 2016. 

America is not bound by a shared nationality, religion, or even geography, but a commitment to certain ideals—that all people are created equal, endowed by God with inalienable rights, and that government is instituted to secure these blessings. This is the republican creed that has animated our experiment in self-government for 240 years. And yet neither of the major party candidates represents it.

As if that tripe wasn’t bad enough, Cost gets downright arrogant and insulting, as all good #nevertrump establishment types do when they don’t get their way (which actually has been pretty rare):

Donald Trump is a sympathizer with the nativist “alt-right,” a twisted and angry ideology that views the world through a racialist lens. Worse, his intemperance knows no bounds, making him liable to lash out at any (real or perceived) rivals.

Did you catch that? If you’re a Trump supporter you’re clinging to a “twisted and angry ideology” and you are viewing “the world through a racialist lens.” So, not only are you ignorant and angry, you’re a racist as well.

Isn’t this what we’ve heard from President Obama and his sycophants for the past eight years? Why does Cost, who claims to be a conservative, use the hateful language of the Left to make his argument?

And who said anything about Romney actually being “conservative?” That he is milquetoast at best when it comes to true conservative principles is even a stretch.

Trump may not be the conservative’s candidate, but he most definitely is the conservative party’s candidate. Now you “never Trumpers” can either jump on board and unite the party, as you should do, or take your ball and go home (to another party). We hear Romney’s looking for some supporters.

If you choose the latter, well, don’t go away mad…just go away.

Sources:

WeeklyStandard.com

ConservativeReview.com