Posted on 12/25/2015 8:53:46 AM PST by RC one
If Trump wins the nomination, prepare for the end of the conservative party (According to the bastion of Conservatism, George Will)
If you look beyond Donald Trumpâs comprehensive unpleasantness â is there a disagreeable human trait he does not have? â you might see this: He is a fundamentally sad figure. His compulsive boasting is evidence of insecurity. His unassuageable neediness suggests an aching hunger for othersâ approval to ratify his self-admiration. His incessant announcements of his self-esteem indicate that he is not self-persuaded. Now, panting with a puppyâs insatiable eagerness to be petted, Trump has reveled in the approval of Vladimir Putin, murderer and war criminal.
Putin slyly stirred Americaâs politics by saying Trump is âvery .â.â. talented,â adding that he welcomed Trumpâs promise of âcloser, deeper relations,â whatever that might mean, with Russia. Trump announced himself flattered to be âso nicely complimentedâ by a âhighly respectedâ man: âWhen people call you brilliant, itâs always good.â When MSNBCâs Joe Scarborough said Putin âkills journalists, political opponents and invades countries,â Trump replied that âat least heâs a leader.â Besides, Trump breezily asserted, âI think our country does plenty of killing also.â Two days later, Trump, who rarely feigns judiciousness, said: âIt has not been proven that heâs killed reporters.â
Well. Perhaps the 56 journalists murdered were coincidental victims of amazingly random violence that the former KGB operativeâs police state is powerless to stop. It has, however, been âproven,â perhaps even to Trumpâs exacting standards, that Putin has dismembered Ukraine. (Counts one and two at the 1946 Nuremberg trials concerned conspiracy to wage, and waging, aggressive war.)
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‘Conservative party”?
And which one might that be?
Cause the Dem party is nuts liberal and the pubbie party has become little more than dem lite. Lets both spend as much money as is possible and to hell with America.
Apt image of George Will. I would add the adjective pretentious.
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