Warner Todd Huston

I am seeing WAY too many Republicans all of a sudden attacking Trump over abortion and marijuana. Folks, if you are really surprised by any of this, you just haven't been paying attention.

On abortion he always said he wants it to be a state issue and without federal control. He has never been an anti-abortion absolutist. Never.

As to pot, he has never been super worried about pot, either. He is against cartels, certainly, but has never been overly active against pot.

Obviously, his recent statements on these two issues has been aimed at moderate voters.

But the point is, he has never been an absolutist on either pot or abortion. And if it is surprising you, you just haven't been paying attention.

Here, though, is the FACT... if you are suddenly all worried about voting for the one candidate who will give you most of what you want, you are allowing someone who won't give you ANY of what you want. to win

Opposing Trump is acting against your own supposed "principles."

Would I want pot wholly outlawed? Yes. Would I want abortion wholly outlawed? Yes. But we don't have a candidate who wants that. We have one that is mostly for restrictions of some sort and one who is 100% in favor of taking all the restrictions off -- not to mention destroying the country otherwise.

THAT is your choice.

Tim responds:

Cerulean thinking from you as always Warner!

There is none more pro-life than I but to go for the whole enchilada now is beyond stupid.

In point of fact the SCOTUS decision made it quite plain it's a states rights issue and any federal ban on abortion would likely be struck down as unconstitutional (and rightly so; the whole reason SCOTUS vacated Roe v. Wade was because ANY federal law on abortion cannot be constitutionally justified.)

Trump GAVE US the chance to defeat abortion at the state level in the first place. Had he not appointed Constitutionalist justices we would still be crushed under the heel of Roe.

We won a major victory; now is not the time to overreach. The American People aren't there yet.

I heard some moron say he wouldn't vote in the next election because Trump won't promise an abortion ban. That is beyond stupid. I would love to take a bullwhip to such idiocy.

The reality is the Left has won for a hundred years on multiple fronts because they will settle for half a loaf and then go for the rest later. We act as though not getting the whole loaf is somehow a defeat, and we attack those who took back that half loaf. Foolish.

I'm all for purity and taking a bold stand but not for fool-heartiness.

To win in politics one first must win elections. These dimwits seem to believe that is immaterial.

Trump is doing the right thing. Too bad so many on our side are falling for the trick of the Left/Democrats and eating him over it.

Selwyn Duke adds:

Correct, Warner. Look, I'm adamantly pro-life, and were I king, abortion would be illegal. But I'm not king. And as Otto von Bismarck put it, politics is "the art of the possible." It's not the art of "I get exactly what I want, right now, 100 percent, no questions asked." In politics, you take what you can. That means if the choice is half a loaf or no loaf, you accept the half a loaf. People need to put the emotion aside.

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