Posted on 02/12/2016 8:29:55 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
We the people have responded--to the disbelief and chagrin of the elites: "We love America, we think it is great, and you can take your global utopia and shove it where the sun don't shine!" God bless America!
Trump’s no conservative an’ I don’t care. Doo-da, doo-da. Trump’s no conservative an’ I don’t care. Oh de doo-dah day. Gonna run all night; gonna run all day. Trump’s no conservative an’ I don’t care. Votin’ Trump anyway.
To the tune of “Camptown Races/Ladies,†Stephen Foster (1826-1864) (Note: also works with “Trump’s not a liberal….â€)
Trump is a philosophically unmoored political opportunist who would trash the broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP in favor of a free-floating populism with strong-man overtones.—The Editors “National Reviewâ€
The next Supreme Court appointments are probably the most important thing the next President will do. That impact will last decades.
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All the GOP candidates left except Trump and Ben Carson have worked for the govt their whole lives - even when they were briefly in the private sector. So we have this cognitive dissonance where limited govt espousing conservatives are voting for govt employee lifers.
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All the GOP candidates left except Trump and Ben Carson have worked for the govt their whole lives - even when they were briefly in the private sector. So we have this cognitive dissonance where limited govt espousing conservatives are voting for govt employee lifers.
Ted Cruz. Since 2012.
Mike Lee, Cruz and Sessions are the only Conservatives I am aware of in the Senate.
What sort of deals will trump make with his friends McConnell, Schumer and Pelosi?
I sure they are all in on touch and go amnesty.
The GOPe already took out Walker quite handily, in case you have amnesia.
Jeff Sessions: Donald Trump’s Immigration Policy Is ‘Exactly the Plan America Needs’
“So we have this cognitive dissonance where limited govt espousing conservatives are voting for govt employee lifers.”
So I should just vote for the big businessman who says government will fix everything when he’s in charge? LOL. Ok.
Well, you apparently believe that anyone who has spent their career in government is automatically not a limited government conservative. For a variety of reasons, I think that is a flawed assumption. It is entirely that someone can spend their career in government fighting for the principles of limited government.
That being said, none of that changes my point. Trump should be providing more specifics to reassure Republicans as to what he intends to do in office, and so far, it appears that he is deliberately avoiding that.
George Soros hasn't spent his career in government, and neither has Progressive CEO Peter Lewis, both of whom are virtually socialists. So, the mere fact that someone is coming from the private sector provides me with zero confidence that they are a limited government conservative at all.
Yes, incompetence does play into this but isnt the primary issue. Its lack of fidelity to a conservative world view. Threy blow in the wind and react to every poll thinking its the way forward. I would prefer a candidate with some track record of actions matching rhetoric.
For me, there isn’t an ideological purity test... but there is a reverence for the Constitution test and a rule of law test. I trust Ted Cruz on those. Although I know where Trump stands on immigration, I don’t know where he stands on the rest of his prospective job description.
So I should just vote for the big businessman who says government will fix everything when he’s in charge? LOL. Ok.
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That is your characterization. You can vote for the lifetime govt employee who has never had to meet a payroll or get anything done in the private sector his whole adult life.
The problem is not whether Trump is a conservative icon or not. The problem is Trump is simply not conservative.
When Cruz, Rubio and Trump gave their announcement speeches to run for president, the ONLY one of them that sounded ‘conservative’ was Donald Trump. Cruz sounded like John Lennon, asking dozens of times for us to ‘imagine’.....
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3396178/posts
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A conservative lifetime govt employee is like a vampire sunbathing. It don't belong. That is cognitive dissonance on your part. The ideal has always been a conservative enters politics for a time and returns to the private sector from which he came. Or upon retirement from the private sector spends his later years in politics.
“That is your characterization.”
All he did was twist the rhetoric that somehow he’s going to be the one that gets the government to fix everything. I’ve heard a different version of that fiddle played before.
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We have seen that before. Reminds me of Union generals appointed for their adherence to the Republican party over their competence. It did not end well for their troops.
All he did was twist the rhetoric that somehow he’s going to be the one that gets the government to fix everything. I’ve heard a different version of that fiddle played before.
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Conservatives are for limited govt not zero govt. I think you are looking for the Libertarian party which is next door. Good people. A little odd but good people.
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