Posted on 01/24/2016 4:29:52 PM PST by Fhios
Exclusive: Joseph Farah asks if GOP front-runner is
The National Review rounded up a couple dozen “conservatives†to denounce Donald Trump and tell the world what it already knows – Trump is not a “movement conservative.â€
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Nice.
How an Obscure Adviser to Pat Buchanan Predicted the Wild Trump Campaign in 1996
The Week dot com ^ Michael Brendan Dougherty
Posted on 1/20/2016, 2:17:11 AM by WayneLusvardi
Imagine giving this advice to a Republican presidential candidate: What if you stopped calling yourself a conservative and instead just promised to make America great again?
What if you dropped all this leftover 19th-century piety about the free market and promised to fight the elites who were selling out American jobs?
What if you just stopped talking about reforming Medicare and Social Security and instead said that the elites were failing to deliver better healthcare at a reasonable price?
What if, instead of vainly talking about restoring the place of religion in society something that appeals only to a narrow slice of Middle America. You simply promised to restore the Middle American core, the economic and cultural losers of globalization to their rightful place in America?
What if you said you would re store them as the chief clients of the American state under your watch, being mindful of their interests when regulating the economy or negotiating trade deals?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3385923/posts
Who did NR make the case for?
Wow, look at this one (post 5). Worse than the other one.
"Trump, should he be the nominee, and I am not endorsing him, is the only Republican candidate who could potentially realign the national political landscape and win a Reaganesque-style landslide – even winning states thought, for the last 28 years, to be impossible for Republican candidates to win.
Let’s not forget that a big part of America’s political problem is the Republican Congress. For the last seven years, ever since Republicans won the House in 2010, and even more so when they won the Senate in 2012, the Congress has been in total appeasement mode – giving Barack Obama everything he needed to “fundamentally transform America†in his own image.
Like him or hate him, Trump is where he is as a frontrunner right now because of that – the total capitulation of the Republican Congress and leadership – as much as he’s there because of Obama’s failed policies."
Take it or leave it. There's a good deal of truth to the fact the GOP Congress has failed to stand up to Obama and the American people are mad as hell and Trump for better or for worse - is their tribune. The National Review team has no answer to this national anger except to loudly denounce Trump. Where were they when the GOP nominated liberals McCain and Romney? They sure as hell held their peace which is why they have no credibility with conservatives.
I don't know what Trump would do if he became President but I do know the American people believe the country is heading in the wrong direction. You don't need to endorse Trump to understand Americans don't like the inevitable decline of America the establishment appears to accept as a given. Trump wants to reverse all that and people are told its impossible. Of course, the critics used to say that about Reagan.
Wow , Joseph Farah cheapshotting Thomas Sowell? I wish Sowell were running for President.
Good article. Thanks for posting.
I agree with everything you say.
kill shot vs Trump?
http://dcwhispers.com/is-fox-news-preparing-proverbial-kill-shot-against-trump-campaign/
Well written rebuttal to the NR. They should have been on Mc Turdle and Boner all these years, and where were they?
BTTT
Hope the Establishment feels the ouch of this one!
Sowell was the one name I hated seen includng with that NR gang. Very disappointing.
National Review believes that they are the sole definer of what constitutes a conservative. Considering Glenn Beck is one of the contributors, they are obviously pulling for Cruz.
Dana Loesch is only on board as she took a snub from Trump's campaign personally and has had her panties in a wad ever since.
The rest are just trying to makes themselves relevant.
I haven’t read it myself, but did see his name listed as if he were Moe Howard.
A good article.
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