[Fhios]

Not one bad thing said about another candidate.

[LS]

Nice.

[Grampa Dave]

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

[TornadoAlley3]

Who did NR make the case for?

[goldstategop]

This is a good description of why Trump could up end the GOP as well as the Democratic establishment - what people deride as the Uniparty:

"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.

[gusopol3]

Wow , Joseph Farah cheapshotting Thomas Sowell? I wish Sowell were running for President.

[datura]

Good article. Thanks for posting.

[biggredd1]

kill shot vs Trump?
http://dcwhispers.com/is-fox-news-preparing-proverbial-kill-shot-against-trump-campaign/

[Dr. Scarpetta]

BTTT

[uncitizen]

Hope the Establishment feels the ouch of this one!

[PJBankard]

A good article.

[Albion Wilde]

Just one post today, FRiends.
Snow shoveling day.

Ping!

This list provides two daily round-ups of Trump-related titles on FR,
to cut the clutter and simplify finding your area of interest.
If you are a Trump opponent, you won't be happy here.

To be added to or dropped from this ping list,
post your request on the thread below or freepmail to Albion Wilde.

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Selected Trump articles on FR, with links, from 12:00 AM to 7:45 PM EST, 1/24/16:
Trump and the National Review Irrelevants
The Long Game: A Guide to Counting Delegates
On Abortion, How Trump And Cruz Stack Up Against Reagan... And Each Other [freeper editorial]
The Latest: Turban-wearing activist ejected from Trump rally
Sanders: I will beat Trump 'badly' in general election
Trump, Sanders Gain Strength in Iowa Homestretch
Donald Trump Hears a Lesson in Humility at Church
Trump Spokesperson Says Ted Cruz Eminent Domain Attack Ad 'Outright Lies'
Poll: Donald Trump gained 15 points on Ted Cruz in Iowa in two weeks
Trump Rekindles Feud With Megyn Kelly 'She Should Not Be Allowed to Be a Moderator'
Lewandowski: Trump May Stage Townhall if Fox Won't Dump Megyn
Fox News Poll: Donald Trump Takes Back Iowa with 11-Point Surge
To Understand Trump, You Must Read "Art of the Deal"
VIDEO: Black woman says Trump 'gives real hope and change'
Trump's Boast: Blacks will like me better than Obama
ADN poll: Alaskans like Trump, Sanders for president
The Ten Conservative Principles of Russell Kirk
Shocker From Ed Schultz: Trump 'Would Function Very Well as President'
Hey National Review, What's Conservatism?
Trump, Conservative Ideolgues and Populists
Donald Trump Would 'Love' to See Michael Bloomberg Run
Two Entertainers Sing Praises Of Trump (Pat Boone and Robert Davi)
Fox polls: Trump ahead in Iowa, New Hampshire (Trump +11 in Iowa, Trumo +17 in NH)
Huh? Glenn Beck Tells Iowa Crowd He Prefers Bernie Sanders Over Donald Trump
Poll: Trump retakes IA lead, keeps big edge in NH and SC (IA Trump 39%, Cruz 34%, Jeb 1%)
Trump Haters: Blinded By The 'Right' [Doug Giles]
POLITICO Playbook: EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Prepares To Run Against Trump!
Cruz Insurgent, Trump Playing for Middle of the Green
Common Core Politicizing America's Schoolchildren [Trump says dump it!]
Selective Outrage: National Review Trashes Trump, Rallies Behind Ryan
Fox News Poll: Trump gains in Iowa, still dominates in New Hampshire (Iowa: Trump 34%; Cruz 23%)
Donald Trump's Widening Lane to the GOP Nomination
Phyllis Schlafly: National Review Is Not the Authority on Conservatism
Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 24 January 2016
Donald Trump is the favorite to be the Republican nominee. Period.
Donald Trump, Challenging Political Correctness, Strikes a Chord
Paths To The Nomination: Trump, Cruz, And Rubio
Russia Insider: Donald Trump Takes on the Neo-Cons
Bitter Truce Fox News Ailes FURIOUS at NR's Lowry for Forcing Fox to Cede Moral High Ground to Trump [backstory from 9/15 - NR editor's possible motives for hit piece]
Buchanan, Schlafly Pound NR Anti-Trump Tirade
TRUMP: If I'm president, 'Christianity will have power' in the US
Tone-deaf Trump touts eminent domain support

[Toughluck_freeper]

Trump Irrevelant?

Hahahahahahaha!

[Gator113]

Best part: “And I know the National Review team has no answers – zero. The National Review elitists are part of the problem, not the solution.”

[AuntB]

“And let me quickly point out that neither John McCain nor Mitt Romney were conservatives at all - “movement conservatives” or otherwise. They were both hostile to conservatives. They hated them. So where were the denunciations of McCain and Romney in the 2008 and 2012 primaries from the National Review crowd and their Trump-hating friends?
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/trump-and-the-national-review-irrelevants/#MQumYm1JIIak7V1b.99";

Nice!

[Duchess47]

Good article, thanks.

[HarborSentry]

I can’t disagree with every point (and I hadn’t read them all yet either). There are some things about Trump that make me uneasy.

But the party has been spitting on us. The party and National Review need to acknowledge that, over and over again.

Trump recognizes that. The GOP seems blind to it. They have a long way to go, and they haven’t even started. This kind of stuff only makes Trump seem better.

[dynoman]

I think this might be the article Trump read at the rally in Pella.

[Guenevere]

TTTT

[Gene Eric]

I agree with Farah.