Posted on 01/22/2016 11:37:44 AM PST by don-o
It's one thing to publish an editorial denouncing Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump; any news outlet can do that, and plenty have. It's another to get almost two dozen leading conservative thinkers to write essays arguing against the Manhattan billionaire's nomination and agree to print them under a single banner: "Against Trump."
That's what the National Review and its editor, Rich Lowry, just pulled off. Lowry spoke with The Fix about how the special issue came together, what he hopes it will accomplish and the price that the conservative magazine was willing to pay in its relationship with the Republican National Committee, which has removed the magazine as co-sponsor of a debate in response to this issue.
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Yeah because these conservative thinkers have done so much in the last 8 years or 10 or 20. They are useless thinkers.
I’m ‘tween a rock and a hard place. I won’t click on the Compost or the NRO websites. So I guess I won’t benefit from the “wisdom” of those two esteemed founts of political “journalism.”
I think it was more like two dozen stinkers.
The loony Glenn Beck and a bunch of neocons who are worried that Trump doesn’t need their money or advice to run his campaign.
SPOT ON !
The look on their puke Globalist faces sums it all up. Trump should use that photo with the caption, “They think you are an idiot”.
Jack Fowler, the Publisher of National Review, has a Twitter page that is truly bizarre! Take a look: https://twitter.com/jackfowler
This no doubt explains why Rich Lowry has been on Fox more than ever the last two weeks. They were in on this ugly piece of yellow journalism from the gitgo.
NR has long struggled and relied on donations. Like NPR
“As with most political opinion magazines in the United States, National Review carries little corporate advertising. The magazine stays afloat by donations from subscribers and black-tie fund raisers around the country. The magazine also sponsors cruises featuring National Review editors and contributors as lecturers.
Buckley said in 2005 that the magazine had lost about $25,000,000 over fifty years.”
Not exactly a free market economic model that...
Look at these names.
I know David Boaz. He and I were in Young Americans for Freedom together. We actually served together on a Platform Committee for one of YAF’s conventions. (We even co-sponsored a resolution.)
Mona Charen is a longtime conservative columnist and writer.
Danea Loesch is a conservative, pro-Second Amendment TV and radio host.
Ed Meese was President Reagan’s Attorney General.
Katie Pavlich is a pretty, young activist conservative commentator whose credentials are beyond question.
Thomas Sowell is a great contemporary free-market economist.
Cal Thomas is perhaps the leading voice of social and religious conservatives in America today.
According to the Trumpkins, they’re all GOPe. Somebody is out of touch with reality.
Two things:
The only thing Lowry is creating is a score to be settled by Pres. Trump.
Thanks for the link. I’d heard of Jack Fowler, but never read anything by him until I just read his Twitter page. He sounds like a real fruitcake.
Thomas Sowell is a great send manufacturing to Asia while we flooded the country with Mexicans to lower the wages of what jobs remain economist.
Dear Lord, could the man be more of an unfunny, puerile twit?
That comment shows that you don’t really understand market economics.
Oh, it's no longer a problem if someone is GOPe - didn't you get the memo? As long as they support Trump, being GOPe is fine - Trump will even make deals with them to "make things work" and will help defend them against conservative attacks. Now it is only if they don't support Trump that being GOPe is a problem.
I know it's hard, but try to keep up! :-)
Several of the writers are not conservatives and certainly not “leading conservatives.” How pathetic that NR had to stoop to people such as deranged Glenn Back, who by no definition is a conservative” and the liberal Bill Kristol.
My distaste is palpable.
A couple of the ones listed I am very disappointed in for participating in a project like this.
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