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A Response to My Conservative Critics About Trump
Townhall.com ^ | June 6, 2017 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 06/06/2017 4:34:31 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: RummyChick

It will be interesting the ripple effects that tweet may create. Maybe Conway’s husband is in an indirect way trying to get her put before she totally destroys her credibility and career after Trump.


61 posted on 06/06/2017 9:17:14 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: joesbucks

See how easy it is to attack him. Makes you seem so above it all.


62 posted on 06/06/2017 9:22:11 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: bray

No. Simply points out he too often makes it difficult to convey praise.


63 posted on 06/06/2017 9:25:35 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: arthurus
Well stated, arthurus.

I consider myself to be an Almost-Never-Trump.

However, I voted for Trump because he was the most “Conservative” candidate who had some possibility of being elected president.

No one else on the GOP national ticket had any chance of beating Hillary.

In my opinion, Trump has never been a Conservative, and at least one third of his top Cabinet secretaries and top advisers are center-left RINOS who never publicly challenge the Democratic Party.

On the other hand, Trump has clearly enforced some Conservative policies and has dramatically changed the national and international political conversation.

However, in the long run, democracy always comes down to basic math.

Trump won the 2016 election because of a sharp drop off in Black voters, because new immigrant citizens vote at a very low rate, and because there was a small increase in Conservative white voters.

Maybe Trump can be reelected in 2020.

But, unless massive LEGAL immigration stops immediately - which Trump will never do - electing a Conservative president will be completely impossible by 2024.

64 posted on 06/06/2017 9:27:59 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: joesbucks

Interesting point. Notice he withdrew from consideration last week. Maybe trying to save both of them.


65 posted on 06/06/2017 9:32:59 AM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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To: joesbucks; bray
Simply points out he too often makes it difficult to convey praise.

Way to buy into leftist "resistance theology".

I doubt you have any idea of what he's been able to do with no help whatsoever.

Thank God for Trump being the one to deal with this stuff, I really don't think anyone else could have done it.

Yet, here you are pissing and moaning about how difficult it is to praise him.

Meh. Go suck your paws elsewhere.

66 posted on 06/06/2017 10:19:56 AM PDT by Lakeshark (Trump. He stands for the great issues of the day. Stay the course!)
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To: Lakeshark

You know. Had this been a continuation of Obama or had Clinton had been elected, this forum would have gone ballistic, and justifiably so, had either done or did the same antics as Trump has. The tweets. Make comments to the Russians that he did. Health Care proposal. Even the Russian mess. We would have been just as looney to impeach them on the same evidence as the left is about impeaching Trump now.


67 posted on 06/06/2017 10:28:42 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: joesbucks
Kindly list the antics he did that offend you.

And oh yes, include the "Russians", and what he did with the health care proposal. That is if you actually know anything, which I doubt.

Are you from CNN or MSNBC? A friend of Reality Winner?

Wow, so easily duped.

And you expect us to think you're some kind of conservative?

68 posted on 06/06/2017 11:37:51 AM PDT by Lakeshark (Trump. He stands for the great issues of the day. Stay the course!)
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To: joesbucks

Give us an example rather than a CNN talking point.


69 posted on 06/06/2017 12:05:56 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: ripnbang

With Mrs Bill the Republic would be definitely over and the Constitution would be relegated to being a quaint but racist artifact of the bad old days. Trump, at worst, is life support for a little while. At best he will turn out to be like Pinochet of Chile. I don’t expect much more than the “at worst” but am relieved that the Corporate State and all its ramifications won’t be fastened down for a few more years. I still tell my children to keep their passports up to date and don’t wait until they get cancelled.


70 posted on 06/06/2017 12:23:48 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: Lakeshark
Frankly I could care a whip what you think of me. So that's off the table. I am honest and that's all that matters.

Health care proposal. He promoted, lobbied, twisted arms, called, visited and pushed for the horrible Ryan health care plan. The first one.

As for Russia, everyday something a little closer hits home. Now Flynn and Manafort are under criminal investigation. Sure, no indictments at this time. But the investigation is young. Should be crying "lock them up"? And how in the world does Flynn, Sessions and Kushner seem to forget meetings with Russians that were supposed to be disclosed. Had the back channel to Russia been set up as Kushner wanted in a Clinton WH, Free Republic would have gone crazy, as it should have.

Hey. I understand that sometimes, like the mother of an ugly baby, you've got to find beauty somewhere. A lot of folks are grasping at straws.

I sometimes wonder that if Trump for whatever reason admitted collusion on the Russian election involvement, the spin among some would be it was the right thing to do.

71 posted on 06/06/2017 2:44:32 PM PDT by joesbucks
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To: bray

Anything other than a Hannity talking point is seen as a CNN talking point.


72 posted on 06/06/2017 2:45:07 PM PDT by joesbucks
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To: Kaslin

These people are ridiculous. They will be debating with each other at the very moment a Muslim walks up and slits their throats. They are useless.


73 posted on 06/06/2017 3:15:38 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: joesbucks

Collusion meaning what?


74 posted on 06/06/2017 3:18:32 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: joesbucks

Really? You going to trash Hannity and Trump? Notice you cannot give a single example so you go calling Hannity names. Sounds familiar.


75 posted on 06/06/2017 3:21:10 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: The Toll

Anything from knowledge of to actively assisting.


76 posted on 06/06/2017 3:57:28 PM PDT by joesbucks
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To: bray

What name did I call Hannity?


77 posted on 06/06/2017 3:58:42 PM PDT by joesbucks
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To: joesbucks

Knowledge of or actively assisting what?


78 posted on 06/06/2017 4:14:33 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: arthurus

Trump is hated by the left because they understand him to be a man of action.

The right has so consoled itself with intellectual exercise that most are more offended by a word poorly spoken than the criminal excess perpetrated by the elite. Better to banter niceties than face the depths of absurdity that we meekly accept as government. Trump is so nouveau riche; so bourgeoisie; so utterly crass; so damned American!

Look beyond his fifth grade tweets. Overlook his repetitive repartee. Go as far as to ignore even his accomplished speeches—and he has many. Look at what he has done and add it to what hasn’t been done because Hillary was defeated.

If Trump “fails,” it will be because we have failed the government. Everyone speaks of checks and balances. It’s so easy to blame the President, the Courts, and the Congress when the truth is the people are the ultimate and only check.


79 posted on 06/06/2017 4:15:50 PM PDT by antidisestablishment ( We few, we happy few, we basket of deplorables)
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To: antidisestablishment

There is a bit more calculation or instinct behind those “fifth grade tweets” than is immediately apparent.


80 posted on 06/06/2017 4:23:43 PM PDT by arthurus
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