I am a pro-abortion, anti-gun, pro-gay marriage Democrat, and I will be voting for Donald Trump for President.
This is the only way to save the country I love.
I know people will shun me and ridicule me, I will cause chaos at family gatherings, I will lose reservations at fancy restaurants, I will lose a ton of Facebook friends.
But while I recognize the shortcomings of the former Republican president, I have come to realize that the election of Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris to the nation's highest office is far more frightening.
In an interview with CNN on Thursday, Harris consistently doubled down in cowardly attempts on what she called her “core values,” including on the environment, borders, health care and crippling inflation.
She won the vote of the middle class. She sacrificed Israel.
The performance was brutal, explicit, nasty and revealed a win-at-all-costs mentality that took my breath away, making me wonder how else she would pull off such an immoral transformation in pursuit of a prize. Does she believe in anything other than herself?
With her running mate and ally, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (who was found to have lied about his National Guard background), Harris has obfuscated her own disastrous record as vice president and before that as a senator and prosecutor, ignoring the border and promoting decriminalization of all crimes as unscreened immigrants flooded into the US. Now she wants to be seen as the law-and-order candidate.
Seriously?
We wanted answers to our burning questions, and Mr. Harris lied to us, for lack of a better word, using a whole bunch of words.
She has vowed to ban fracking, the lucrative way of extracting oil and natural gas from the ground, as harmful to the environment, and has called for the end of gasoline-powered cars, but she doesn't care that fracking and fossil fuels may sway her vote, especially in battleground states.
“You mentioned the Green New Deal. I've always believed, and I've been working on, that the climate crisis is real and that it's an urgent issue that should be met with deadlines and other standards,” Harris told CNN's Dana Bash, who took the gibberish with a straight face and almost skepticism.
“My commitment to Israel's defense and ability to defend itself is clear and unwavering and will not change,” she said, but added, “how that is done matters.”
“Too many innocent Palestinians have been killed.” Israelis who have been killed, tortured or kidnapped have been put on the back burner.
She declined to say whether she would block U.S. arms exports to Israel.
On the other hand, Trump has demonstrated a moderate approach to social issues that I strongly believe the government should not intervene in, such as opposing traditional Republican opposition to same-sex marriage.
He believes the six-week ban on abortion is “too short,” and said elected state governments, not the federal government, should decide local abortion restrictions. He also said the government or health insurance companies should cover the costs of in vitro fertilization treatments, which pro-lifers oppose because they can destroy fetuses.
He is an outspoken supporter of Israel.
Secure borders. Ending rampant crime. Freeing ourselves from crushing inflation. While Kamala Harris is unsure, with Donald Trump at the helm, there's a good chance we can fix at least some of the problems.
I'm with him.
