Posted on 07/31/2015 5:33:12 PM PDT by cotton1706
Amid all the sound and fury of the Trump surge, there are conservatives who have not taken to Donald Trump. Yet simultaneously, new polls show that the Trump surge continues, unabated. Shocking the Bush camp, a poll out of St. Petersburg, Florida – the St. Pete’s poll shows Trump defeating Florida’s own Jeb Bush (in Florida!) 26-20, carrying a full 22% of the Hispanic vote. A new Reuters poll has him leading the GOP pack with 25% to Bush’s 12%.
Yet over at The Wall Street Journal, our friends who run the editorial page have bashed The Trump Apologists. Sir Charles Krauthammer dismissed him as a “rodeo clown.” The left-wing attack machine Media Matters has conspicuously posted a list of conservatives who have bashed Trump, a list that includes George Will, Linda Chavez and National Review’s Eliana Johnson, Jonah Goldberg and Kevin Williamson. And, but of course, Bushie Karl Rove has helpfully weighed in comparing Trump to Missouri’s rape-challenged Todd Akin.
It’s fair to say there is disagreement in the world conservative over Donald Trump. But I would respectfully suggest that this disagreement is about more than Trump. This disagreement goes to the very heart of the differences between Reagan conservatives and more Establishment-oriented conservatives in both the media and on Capitol Hill.
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Jeffrey Lord rocks. I like how he dismantled Kevin Williamson, and Kevin is a helluva writer in his own right.
Very good read! I hope the outcome is as it was when Reagan ran. Yea Ha!
And, I have a prediction: The aug 6th debate will not be a Trump hate-fest.
He'll be accorded respect by all but the stupid so as not to further inflame US.
While slow, the GOP consultants are probably starting to pick up the Trump vibe and are working on how to shift their candidates' position.
Charles Krauthammer, George Will, Linda Chavez and National Review’s Eliana Johnson, Jonah Goldberg and Kevin Williamson.
Great article!!!
Nixon, Ford, Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain, Romney.
And now the establishment boys want another Bush? And want to trash Cruz? And Trump for speaking the truth on illegal aliens and hitting back at the establishment hacks who attack him?
The establishment boys are so scared of someone actually willing to push a small government agenda that they savage them 10X as much as they would any Dim. And they wonder why the conservative base hates their guts?
I hope, however, that Jeb Bush stays with his established themes: illegal immigration is an "act of love"; Obama is right, we have been blind to racial injustice; conservatives are bad, yada, yada, yada...
If he does, he'll be gone from the race that much sooner.
And I'm at the point of very much wanting to see this Bush gone, goner, gonest.
Excellent article and BTTT.
NR’s Linda Chavez is an amnesty shill. The rest are conservatives with qualifiers in front of the term: neo, ‘crunchy’, moderate, eggsucking, etc.
“And, I have a prediction: The aug 6th debate will not be a Trump hate-fest.”
I think Rush or someone said that jebs people gave him instructions to ignore him.
Where did he dismantle Kevin Williamson? I’m not seeing it.
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