This pro-life, gun-loving, drill-baby-drill, climate change skeptic’s decision for president

I know exactly how bad Harris is. She is a threat to our conservative Supreme Court and would appoint whackadoo leftists to high positions

October 29, 2024 - 2:29 PM

This combination of images shows Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris at separate campaign events Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024, in Duluth, Ga., and Aston, Pa., respectively. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, left, Matt Rourke, File)

I am a bit conservative.

• I am pro-life. I love that Donald Trump and his Federalist Society judicial nominees overthrew Roe v. Wade, a lawless example of judicial overreach.

• I am skeptical of climate change and the extreme environmental agenda.

• I am glad Trump allowed us to drill our way to energy independence and shut down the Green New Deal.

• I believe the Second Amendment protects the God-given individual right to self defense and for me to own my AR-15 along with the high capacity magazines that make it a blast to shoot. Trump’s indifference to calls for gun control is exactly the right stance.

• I believe China is a menace that competes unfairly. Trump was exactly right to impose big tariffs and begin the process of decoupling our economy from the dangerous totalitarian state.

• I am the great-grandson of immigrants on both sides of my family who came after World War I — some of them to St. Joseph, Missouri — but I agree with Trump that immigration is out of control. I am all for shutting down illegal immigration, deporting as many undocumented immigrants as we can and rethinking the way we do legal immigration to put American interests first.

But I will be forcing myself to trudge to the polls and pulling the lever for Kamala Harris, the most awful, socialism-friendly, fake Democratic presidential candidate of my lifetime. I feel so strongly that I have handmade a sign I put outside my house in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District where our one (blue dot) electoral vote may hold the key to putting her in the White House.

The reasons I will vote against Trump are searingly clear and undebatable.

I am an Army veteran sworn to uphold the Constitution and a conservative who reveres the institutions of our democratic republic.

Trump tried to overthrow our 250-year-old system of government on Jan. 6, 2021. He tried to force then-Vice President Mike Pence to ignore the Constitution and our votes.

He emitted a blizzard of lies for months that drove his true believers to storm the Capitol, bringing violence into our political system in the most dangerous way since the Civil War.