Posted on 04/25/2019 12:01:21 PM PDT by Starman417
Dear National Review:
FU
Have a nice day.
Sincerely,
Bonemaker
Some of the NT crowd appears to believe that participating in a circular firing squad, thereby signalling their anti-Trump virtue to "moderates", will help conservatism in the long run.
It won't. All they'll succeed in doing is alienating the great mass of working/middle class Republicans who celebrate having someone, however flawed, who punches back.
I sent an email to Faux News saying something similar.
“We already have PMSNBC...why do we need you?”
He put it all into words that I would like to have found 12 years ago when I quit NR. NR is an elitist club that has a different facade but is not much different from the Left elite clubs on the same street.
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2016/02/15/conservatives-against-trump/
Screw NR.
He has nearly accomplished that first Great Task of Conservatism.
The second Great Task of Conservatism, packing the courts with judges who are NOT Lefty Democrat ideologues, is proceeding apace.
This is a YUGE bonus brought to us by the President.
After these tasks are accomplished, we can get back to "Muh Principles", for the playing field will be somewhat leveled.
I've maintained for years that wringing our hands about abortion, gay marriage, illegal immigration and the like is pointless without addressing the two Great Tasks.
From the on-going hysterical squealing on the Left, we can see this was correct.
I miss VDH, but he was about the only rational one left.
Good-bye NR - we hardly knew ya'
If DJT doesn’t accomplish another thing, his destruction of corporate conservatism has been worth the price of admission for me..
I got my first copy of NR the week after Reagan won in 1980. I had to go to the ONLY news stand in the Chicago area ( in Evanston) to find it. I had a subscription since then until last year. I just couldn’t take it anymore.
Edit.
The ONLY news stand in the Chicago area that sold it.
National Review once was a great magazine. I subscribed from 1976 to about 1992. Often read it cover to cover.
But after Reagan left office it became a GOP establishment rag pushing amnesty and open borders. A lot of good writers and editors either left on their own or got pushed out.
And that was long before Jonah Goldberg’s mommy inexplicably got him installed there so that he could run it into an iceberg.
Sorry but I have tossed the "Muh Principles" meme until the liberals are dust under my feet.
They want to kill or enslave me. I do not care about "level playing fields". I do not care if "gentlemen do not read other people's mail".
When having an amusing with gentlemen you observe the MoQ rules. (Although what kind of bone head fights for fun?) Only a fool does that when fighting in a bar brawl where they are trying to kill you.
I have a broken pool cue in hand and am going to keep swinging.
They want a piece of me?
Over their dead body.
I dropped them 30 years ago when they decided to have a cover story that would be a “civil discourse” on abortion with baby-killers getting equal time.
National Review started down the drain when Bill Buckley started to become senile. When he died, National Review died with him. As did my subscription.
When you got the Free Republic who the heck needs the National Review? I wouldn’t subscribe even if I couldn’t have the Free Republic.
National Review needs to move their offices to Tulsa Oklahoma. Maybe they could get in touch with the America they’ve forgotten if they lived in it!
Consider: “Franklin Graham and the High Cost of the Lost Evangelical Witness” - https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/franklin-graham-and-the-high-cost-of-the-lost-evangelical-witness/
French’s article could be cut to 2 words: Trump Satan!
I originally took over my father’s subscription that goes back to when it included a newsletter between magazine arrivals. It was my favorite reading when I was in Jr. Hi. T took it for over 10 years until it lost the Buckley essence.
When I finally decided I was a republican/conservative circa 1993, one of the first things I did was start a subscription to NR. Seemed the next logical step in my conversion. Not any longer. I have not looked at an issue for years. As far as I am concerned, NR is a tool of the left. The left gets to point at NR articles as examples of how “even conservatives hate Trump”. ESAD, NR.
A few years back NR posted an idiotic editorial condemning the budget that Ryan and McConnell passed, without naming them. However they managed to work in the name of presidential candidate Trump as a cause for the final budget.
I noted in the comment section that while they could only find one name to mention, a name who had nothing to do with the budget, they failed to name the perpetraitors (spelled this way on purpose) of said budget. They corrected the editorial.
It was one of my proudest days.
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