Posted on 03/24/2016 4:29:48 AM PDT by Hilda
The irony of this article is awesomely funny.
A few years ago, Matt Walsh was just another small town, two bit radio opiner who gained a local following, even though he wasn’t a native of the area. I can see where he would be a Cruz supporter because they have followed the same path, more or less. Matt was recruited to be the Conservative token commentator on a liberal site, I forget which one. His bread and butter is taking the most extreme opposite view of the people who pay him.
Is he more relevant than bert on Free Republic. Probably not nearly as much.
In your humble opinion, right?
Does Trump ever, EVER, mention the Constitution? Does he EVER mention that the problems we face are because of BIG government? More rules, regs, loss of freedom, and more oppression. No, no, he’s just going to put the “right people” in there to “get things done” and “make America great again”. Well allow me to quote Lord Acton, “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts, absolutely”. He’s a progressive.
Um, no. And, unlike Donald Trump, Matt Walsh "knows words" and actually "has the best words."
The liberal media loves to talk about Trump 24/7 so I guess they are part of the GOPe establishment too!
I believe Matt Walsh should take his own advice.
So you want a strong man? Okayyyyyy. History shows that never turns out well for free people.......
and your response was substantive? what???
So Matt, full disclosure time. Who is paying your bills these days?
Are you getting donor checks from LGBT activist, and Rubio billionaire backer Paul Sanger, like your fellow GOPE AstroTurf Erick Erickson is?
“Conservatives” really should wise up. Just because someone tells you what you want to hear, does not mean they really are on your side.
Lincoln? Teddy R? Churchill? Reagan? I don't think now's the time for a weak man, Mom.
Is this a trick question?
The 1st Amendment?
God?
Mother Nature?
Lists can be helpful, IMHO.
No, he will be called worse than that.
Almost every reply to your post proves his point.
There’s no point in talking when there’s nobody listening.
“Conservative Media” is the home plate of Dogmatic Conservatism. They live eat, breath, sleep dogma. For them theory of “Conservatism” is more important then anything else
The 2016 GOP Primary has brought up an old divide in Conservatism. There currently is a war being waged between the Dogmatics and the Realists. The Dogmatist care nothing about political realities, only the purity of the candidates political dogma matters to them. The Realist understands you have to be able to advance the political ball down the field to achieve the goals of the dogma. The Realist understands some times a flawed tool is going work better then the flawlessly poltical pure tool.
Reagan, who was a realist, wrote about it.
By Ronald Reagan in his autobiography An American Life
“When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn’t like it. “Compromise” was a dirty word to them and they wouldn’t face the fact that we couldn’t get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don’t get it all, some said, don’t take anything. I’d learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: ‘I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.’ If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.
The Dogmatic at NR, Town Hall, Red State and the rest of the “Conservative” media sneer at the realist as being “nihlistic towards DC and the GOP”.
It is not Nihilism, it Realism. Since 1988 Conservatives have faithfully pledges their treasure and time to the GOP. Despite elections successes in 1988, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2010 and 2014 what have Conservative gotten from the GOP?
Prosperity? Nope worse economy since 1979.
Reduction in Government-nope as expensive, corrupt, incompetent, intrusive and bigger then ever
Supreme Court? Nope as far left as it has ever been.
A Nation secure? Nope at risk in a dangerous world. Military broken, exhausted and overextended.
A respect for rule of law and the Constitution? Nope. Government, and society, is more lawless then it has ever been.
A healthy growing vibrant society? Nope stagnant, or in decline, everywhere in every way.
So, it not Nihilism, it Realism. It is a realistic assessment that doing the same thing again this year electorally is going to continue this decline and degradation from DC.You can only overcome inertia in any system with force. So we need to force DC out of it denigrate path onto a new path. So why Trump rather then Cruz?
I know this falls on deaf ears with 100%ers at NR, Red State and other “Conservative” media but the fact remains, we are a Constitutional Republic that rests on the notion that the people’s Representatives in Government know how to compromise and negotiate.
This feeling that Cruz will ride into DC and dictate the Conservative Media’s 100%er terms to everyone else there is simply wishful thinking. What is more probable is Cruz would be a GOP Carter.
Carter was the same sort of religious political puritan who went to DC and assumed he would dictate his political dogmas to everyone there. The record shows how badly that idea failed.
“Conservative” politicians talk a good game and then go to DC and accomplish nothing. After 30 years of fail, it is time to try another solution. The winning candidate is, brace yourselves.... going to have to cut DEALS! And some times those deals require..compromise!!!
Another fail point for the “Principled Conservatives” is they think only as far as the election. Then once they win their purity candidates go to DC and fail against the inertia of the DC/Media political machine. 1988-1994-1998-2000-2002-2004-2010-2014 are all example of where this “Next election” mindset has failed.
Trump is merely the 1st wave of a multi wave assault. Cruz might do for a follow up wave, he is not a 1st wave candidate. Without Trump to lead the way, the Cruz boat would of either been ignored because it was irrelevant, or been shelled into oblivion by the $10s of millions of GOPE attack ads.
The 1st wave job in any assault is to shatter the defenses and open the road for the follow up waves. No matter how flawed you think the vessel is, Trump is the best 1st wave political assault team we have had to hand in my lifetime.
We need to use Trump for all he is worth to shatter the corrupt, “my party right or wrong” mindset that grips vast swaths of the electorate. Break that inertia, get the people thinking outside the party label box and real change is possible. Do not an we slide into a stagnate European style decline that will not end in my lifetime. Cruz shares that agenda point but is not as well equipped by background and media following to achieve that break through as Trump
We either win this now or we have little chance of ever doing it again politically. Once we win we must relentlessly stay on the attack election wave after election wave until we are dead.
I am really not willing to leave this fight to my kids and grand-kids. We have let the ship of state drift since Reagan in the hands of the “smart people”. We failed and must redeem that failure.
This is our generation’s “go” time
No it doesn’t. Odd how the Crybully culture has taken over the “Principled Conservatives”. They race around the web throwing verbal punches like this Matt Waslh posting then whine hysterically when the targets punch back.
Don’t like getting punched? Don’t throw the 1st punch.
Who is Matt Walsh and why is his Facebook rant taking up space on the FR?
Geesh Matt! Used to think you had your head on straight. Do you MIND if other people have a different opinion?
I’m not a Trumpster by any means but will vote for him or Cruz. Neither are perfect by far. And only one of them can survive a natural born citizen contest/lawsuit by the Dims.
Put down the pipe, Matt!
This describes the attitudes and actions of the Trumpazoids to a "T". If you don't agree with their worship plan, you are an establishment tool, excrement, human slime, and the list goes on. All pejoratives used right here on FR to describe non-Trump worshippers.
Beyond that, the hypocrisy of these people goes beyond even the Democrats.
Um, no. He’s as deranged as Ben Shapiro.
You only listen to the part you want to hear.
I remember Trump talking about how regulation was killing business.
Several times.
Look it up.
Matt Walsh loves to hear himself talk.
Too bad he has nothing to say.
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