We are Republicans, proud of the party of Lincoln, and of Ford too, of Teddy Roosevelt, and Ronnie Reagan, of Ike and the Bushes, 41 and 43.
We believe that the survival of American liberty is best assured by limited, constitutional government, and that the success of liberty – the pursuit of happiness by American individuals and families – is best ensured by free enterprise.
We also believe in the fundamental American consensus which existed from World War II through the emergence of the 1960's "New Left," which saw American global power as a force for good in the world, as the indispensable shield behind which human progress could happen, both at home and for all humanity.
In any other year, we would be working hard to elect the Republican nominee for President of United States, regardless of differences any of us might have with particular policies of that person.
But this is 2016. The Republican nominee is utterly unfit, by character, temperament, experience, and professed ideas – to the extent any ideas can be discerned – to be the President of our great nation.
We are organizing to do all we can to elect Hillary Clinton President this November.
Of course, there are many things on which we disagree with Secretary Clinton.
While she has critiqued Senator Sanders for being unrealistic in his stated objective of transforming the United States into a Democratic Socialist Republic, modeled on the states of northern Europe, she has not rejected that vision as a worthy goal. Instead, she has offered herself as the better vehicle by which to reach that goal someday, through a pragmatic incrementalism.
But disagreements over tax rates, spending plans and government regulations, all pale into insignificance if the United States elects a demagogue and wannabe authoritarian, whose pronouncements on America's role in the world and the world in which America lives, to the extent they are coherent at all, herald an unacceptable risk to national security.
When Ronald Reagan ran for election, he told America to be mindful of a "bear in the woods". Today, the world is a veritable “Hunger Games” arena, with Putin’s Russia, the Chinese army, the “Supreme Leader” of Iran, the unhinged leader of North Korea, and the monsters of ISIS and its fellow travelers within the Jihadi movement, all vying to be the beast which takes down the United States of America.
Despite ordinary election rhetoric, presidents really don’t control the American economy or, while Supreme Court nominations do matter, the most important things in our civil society. This goes even for Liberal Democrats, who might want such control. But presidents do have unequalled power and responsibility in matters of war and peace.
So, while there are many reasons to do so, domestic as well as foreign, most fundamentally, we come together as Republicans for Hillary 2016 because we believe a President Trump could well blunder or be sucked into what could become World War III. He could well get our children killed.
Donald Trump must be defeated. Down the road, America will have plenty of time to go back to arguing, civilly and thoughtfully, about taxes, spending, and the right balance between accommodating change and preserving tradition in family and community values.
Just a relatively few Republicans, who love their country more than a political party, can be the difference in this election.
Please join us.
http://www.republicansforher2016.com/