Cruz If We Can, Trump If We Must

Ben Shapiro and others have written several well-reasoned and impassioned pieces explaining why they will not vote for Trump in the general election under any circumstances, and why conservatives should follow their example. Most of these arguments are well-taken... in the primary process, even in a brokered convention. But this anti-Trump conservative cannot abide this going into November against Hillary Clinton. Shapiro is concerned that conservatism itself may not survive a Trump presidency. Why? Will conservatives roll over and abandon their principles because they failed -- again -- to educate enough people in those principles in advance of this election season? Trump isn't the conservative candidate any more than Gerald Ford was, so be it. There is no doubt that a Trump presidency may tarnish the Republican brand and make it all the more challenging to elect Republicans in the future, something for which Mr. Shapiro expresses no sentimentality, but there is no reason that...(Read Full Article)