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Hillary: The Conservative Hope [#NeverTrump]
Wall Street Journal ^ | May 9, 2016 | Bret Stephens

Posted on 05/10/2016 11:01:46 AM PDT by C19fan

The best hope for what’s left of a serious conservative movement in America is the election in November of a Democratic president, held in check by a Republican Congress. Conservatives can survive liberal administrations, especially those whose predictable failures lead to healthy restorations—think Carter, then Reagan. What isn’t survivable is a Republican president who is part Know Nothing, part Smoot-Hawley and part John Birch. The stain of a Trump administration would cripple the conservative cause for a generation.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; antitrump; hillary2016; nevertrump; potus; trump
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Bret Stephens another unoriginal thinking so called wonk who only knows how to recite NeoCon platitudes. Luv this quote:

It is a regression to the conservatism of blood and soil, of ethnic polarization and bullying nationalism.

That is rich from Mr. Stephens who never found a war to "Make the World Safe for Democracy" he did not support. If this is not "bullying nationalism" I do not know what is.

1 posted on 05/10/2016 11:01:46 AM PDT by C19fan
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The Media is blasting negative comments about Trump from GOPe scum all day today. And now the WSJ comes out for Hillary.

The Republican Party is dead. The Civil War is on.


2 posted on 05/10/2016 11:04:00 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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Dude’s losing it.


3 posted on 05/10/2016 11:05:02 AM PDT by ksm1
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Shorter Bret Stephens: "... because if I have to shell out more than $4.25 an hour for some guy named 'Jesus' to leaf blow my driveway, principled conservatism is DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED -- !!!"
4 posted on 05/10/2016 11:05:55 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (If you can't graciously honor JimRob's wishes, then kindly stay the hell out of his house.)
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Wow! I’m more excited about Mr. Trump now that I know he is part John Birch!


5 posted on 05/10/2016 11:08:12 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24
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To: C19fan

The U.S. constitution cannot survive 3 or 4 new justices on the high court if Clinton gets elected. Tells you all you need to know about this open borders Uber Alles shill.


6 posted on 05/10/2016 11:10:30 AM PDT by LongWayHome
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Hillary is the only hope ... for the status quo rentiers.


7 posted on 05/10/2016 11:11:16 AM PDT by Lorianne
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As citizens, we have seen enough of a so-called "conservative cause" which has failed to preserve the ideas essential to individual liberty, as laid out in America's Declaration of Independence and protected by its 1787 Constitution's provisions.

In the recent elections, "the People" have spoken, and neither Stephens nor the defeated candidates are wise enough to discern what that foretells for America.

Today's news reports intimate that Ted Cruz is exhibiting an intense mistrust of the judgment of citizens ("the People")--a curious attitude for the one candidate who is, perhaps, the most familiar with the writings and speeches of America's Founders.

After all, approval of their 1787 Constitution relied on the ratification process in the States, and any future Amendment to that Constitution, by the Constitution's own provision, requires the assent of "the People."

"I am not among those who fear the people. They...are our dependence for continued freedom. And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds...our people...must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they (the British) now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers....This example reads to us the salutary lesson that private fortunes are destroyed by public, as well as by private extravagance. And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from the principle in one instance, becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the 'bellum omnium in omnia,' which some philosophers...have mistaken for the natural, instead of the abusive, state of man. And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." - Thomas Jefferson
In 2016, "the People," having watched their elected so-called "conservative" Republican leaders fail miserably at even slowing the oppressive "progressive" "train" of "wretchedness and oppression."

"The People" who Justice Story called "the only KEEPERS of the Constitution" see the so-called "conservatives" they elected betray them, and they have responded with an outright rejection, county by county, in most of the states won by Trump.

It is time now for those the voters rejected to decide whether they will turn over the Executive Branch to a self-described "progressive" who promises to double down on the Obama agenda,

or

whether they will show statesmanship by accepting "the People's" choice, re-engaging in their delegated duties to preserve and protect the Constitution, and placing the Republican Party on a firm footing of fidelity to that Constitution's limits on power and protection's for liberty.
8 posted on 05/10/2016 11:12:16 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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He’s married to music critic at the new York times. He had to do this - he probably doesn’t even know someone who knows someone that knows someone that supports Trump.


9 posted on 05/10/2016 11:15:03 AM PDT by major-pelham
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held in check by a Republican Congress

This is working out so well right now...

10 posted on 05/10/2016 11:19:12 AM PDT by dfwright (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left (Eccl. 10:2, NIV))
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Looks like the Hillary spam paid hacks are really messing up the news feeds...

Hillary is a POS along with that thing that rapes and abuses women, and anyone who supports her or her ilk...

The media might think we are going to roll over, but guess what, WE AREN’T...take your communistic articles and shove them...


11 posted on 05/10/2016 11:20:56 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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“...held in check by a Republican Congress”? In whose fantasy world?
GOP-E betrayed us willfully during the entire 0bama administration. Now they’re failing to support our chosen candidate. I’m. So. Done.


12 posted on 05/10/2016 11:21:41 AM PDT by ntnychik
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Incredible. It’s as if the last 8 years never happened. The Dems live in their bubble world, the GOP lives in theirs. Two fantasy worlds that endure in the minds of the DC elite while reality steamrolls over the rest of us.


13 posted on 05/10/2016 11:23:31 AM PDT by The_Harlequin
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How the Wall Street Journal can stoop to publishing such delusional insanity, is amazing.

Let's be blunt. There is no Conservative principle that is more important than the survival of your own people and the cultural heritage that is their achievement over the generations; an achievement which reflects the best, brightest & most noble of those who have come before.

The implied premises of this loon's diatribe is that there is something wrong with a culture that honors its "Fathers & mothers," that its days may be long in the land. This is a clear attack on the Western ethos in general; on common sense; on the moral strictures that keep a society healthy; on the common sense, which makes all meaningful progress--the type you are able to pass on to your posterity--possible.

Mentally dysfunctional loons, like this writer, clearly punctuate the need for Donald Trump. Let this call us back to the wisdom of the last verse of the Star Spangled Banner: Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: In God is our trust.

14 posted on 05/10/2016 11:25:03 AM PDT by Ohioan
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I hear various WSJ folks on the John Batchelor show. Everyone one of them is stridently pro ‘immigration’ (they always elide the distinction beyween legal and illegal immigration). It seems Murdoch is a harsh master.


15 posted on 05/10/2016 11:27:33 AM PDT by pluvmantelo (He is pure malevolence)
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More BULL$***. The problem is some ‘conservatives” are more interested in an economy which benefits one-worlder globalist crony companies which put large sums of money in the pockets of corrupt politicians in BOTH political parties.

The anti-Trump movement has NOTHING to do with politics, the candidate and his rhetoric or perceptions of a poor image for the GOP (over the past seven years of capitulation to Obama, IT COULD HARDLY BE WORSE). It has EVERTHING to do with MONEY and the perception that these crooked Rats in BOTH political party will loose their affluent lobbyists if Trump wrecks their apple carts. TOO BAD. I hope they made accommodations outside Washington because Trump is going to carry a lot tea party conservatives into office with him.


16 posted on 05/10/2016 11:28:10 AM PDT by ZULU (DON'T GO OFF THE RESERVATION.)
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To: major-pelham

The WSJ is the NYT without pictures.


17 posted on 05/10/2016 11:29:49 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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I’m just sick of these globalist, open borders, one way trade “deals”, LGBT toadying, deficit spending, unending war mongerers calling themselves “conservative”.


18 posted on 05/10/2016 11:31:17 AM PDT by Seruzawa (If you agree with the French raise your hand. If you are French raise both hands)
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The Wall Street Journal is 100% dead to me.


19 posted on 05/10/2016 11:33:00 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Whatever the question, Donald Trump is the answer.)
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Let's be blunt. There is no Conservative principle that is more important than the survival of your own people and the cultural heritage that is their achievement over the generations

Perfectly, PERFECTLY stated! ;)

20 posted on 05/10/2016 11:36:17 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (If you can't graciously honor JimRob's wishes, then kindly stay the hell out of his house.)
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