Pragmatist, Not a Liberal Or a Conservative

Joe Dan Gorman (Intellectual Froglegs) has an article up about how we need Trump because we need a pragmatist, not a liberal or a conservative.

However, while he rightly defines liberals, he only addresses the "so-called Republican conservative perspective." He does not address true Constitutional republican conservatism at all.

I suppose Trump looks better than Cruz, if you're just "sick of lawyers" as RickZ says, and Trump may seem the pragmatic choice if you think "most of the country is not conservative" as Notsothoreau says. Or, if you're one of those who's found a thing or two Cruz did that outweighs all else he says and does - which I can sort-of understand.

Joe Dan, to his credit, is not anti-Cruz, in fact, seems to recognize Cruz as the next best thing, but he won't change, I'd wager, from his "pragmatic" idea. (His uncritical all-out Trumpeting has almost but not quite dampened my enthusiasm for his excellent Intellectual Froglegs videos.)

Personally, I can and have voted "pragmatically" in the past, but even if the whole rest of the country is so ruined that it chooses to commit national suicide by electing another Communist, I'd still welcome a chance to vote for a candidate who understands and supports Constitutional issues, and Trump is not that guy. Cruz is as close as we seem to have.

And I'd not have to hold my nose, at least as hard, as I did with Romney and McCain. Hoping, of course, that Cruz is the real deal, not another liberal in conservative's clothing.