A Clear Choice

Any attempt to reduce the two candidates, Clinton and Trump, to the same level amounts to an exercise in “false equivalency”, a tiresome phrases frequently deployed by those ill equipped to form even the most rudimentary moral distinctions, but in this case quite apt.

By whatever criterion one choses - from considerations of right-to-life, to the selection of judges, to military preparedness, to reducing the role of government, to protection of religious liberties, to simplification of the tax code, to job creation, to personal temperament, to the candidate’s record of professional accomplishment, and on and on – any sentient being capable of rational thought and untrammeled by a personality disorder (this latter eliminates the hysterical Glenn Beck, the frantic attention-seeker, Bill Kristol, the cowardly and envious Mitt Romney, and, most recently, the prissy, social-climbing, bow-tie Beltway conservative, George Will) ought easily be able to distinguish the arrant criminality of Hillary Clinton from the metaphysical and stylistic inadequacies of Donald Trump.  

As a movement conservative for over half a century who consorts regularly with conservatives and who has followed this campaign closely, if there is a credible argument for a conservative to do anything other than vote for Trump, I have not heard it.