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Trump: No
National Review ^ | October 15, 2020 11:17 AM | Ramesh Ponnuru

Posted on 10/20/2020 7:29:35 AM PDT by Zhang Fei

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To: Zhang Fei

It is absolutely impossible to National Review to be of value to a conservative. A shame, really. When I became a republican in 1994, one of the first things I did was start a subscription to National Review. I used to get the Weekly Standard, too. Those publications are bird-cage liner material now.


61 posted on 10/20/2020 7:56:50 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Does the left like anything about America?)
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To: trublu

The GOP is the useless party...Trump is the last man standing...if he wins he needs to overhaul the GOP and change its name..


62 posted on 10/20/2020 7:57:35 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Zhang Fei

The face of stupidity, like we care how he votes, because we will win without you loser.

63 posted on 10/20/2020 7:57:42 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Zhang Fei

Scummy bribe-taking kiddie-diddler is more moral than Trump, says bonehead!


64 posted on 10/20/2020 7:57:58 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Another foreign name wuss who hates America. Burn in hell.


65 posted on 10/20/2020 7:58:33 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Zhang Fei

I wrote this in 2016 and it is still true.

Which of the writers of Biblical patriarchs or writers of the New Testament would you vote for?

Abraham, adultery with Hagar
Joseph, comes across as sort of a self righteousness braggart, in front of his brothers as a young man.
Moses, a murdered and Egyptian.
Samuel, had really depraved sons indicating poor parenting skills.
David, adultery, murder, disobedience to God.
Solomon practically defines the term “womanizer” and worshiped idols.
Hezekiah boasted about his wealth to the king of Babylon.
Jeremiah, What negative narrative he espoused!
Ezekiel, preached naked.
John the Baptiser went around condemning everybody to Hell.
Jesus sent a lot of time with disreputable people
St Paul, accessory to murder. He also appeared to be somewhat intolerant towards Jhhn-Mark.
St Peter, had a really foul mouth.
St John, was probably an epileptic and thus unfit for office
St Luke, he hung around with Paul.

Notice, many of these men actually wrote the Bible. They all had serious character flaws at least as bad as Donald Trump.
Waiting on a perfect person is a fool’s errand.


66 posted on 10/20/2020 8:00:40 AM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no justice until PIAPPS is hanging from a gallows.)
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To: Signalman

This ponnaru oaf is an ultimate nitwit. Does anyone with at least one functioning brain cell take this pathetic loser seriously...about anything??? The tool is concerned about President Trump’s “character flaw”??? If this goof opened his eyes he would see that being a communist/fascist (kamala) or being a traitor/criminal (SleepyJoe) just might fit into that category.


67 posted on 10/20/2020 8:02:01 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: Hojczyk

I told my wife, whichever party loses this election is in serious trouble. If Trump loses, the Republicans my get shut out of power for a generation. If the Democrats lose, there will be civil war between the far left and those who still think the JFK Democrat party still exists.


68 posted on 10/20/2020 8:03:13 AM PDT by trublu
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To: Zhang Fei

Oh, how the National Review has fallen. To discourage people from voting for Trump given the present state of the nation is despicable.


69 posted on 10/20/2020 8:03:18 AM PDT by Stravinsky (Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
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To: marktwain

[There is another possibility.

The Author may be praising President Trump with faint accusations.

Many people are going to read the column, be reminded of what President Trump has actually done, and have the same reaction which is occurring here.

The author is free from being accused of being a Trump supporter, gets paid, and keeps his high-paying Bloomberg position, is invited to the DC cocktail parties... etc.]


The more I think about it, Ponnuru’s article might be penance for this earlier piece slamming Biden for influence-peddling on behalf of his son, among other things.

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/07/08/ponnuru-bidens-decency-is-being-greatly-exaggerated/

This was before the current e-mail scandal where Biden has now been linked to actually taking a 50% cut.

What Bloomberg wants from his employees, Bloomberg gets. He *is* signing Ponnuru’s hefty paychecks. And I’m not exaggerating. Bloomberg has a reputation for paying his employees well.


70 posted on 10/20/2020 8:04:54 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: marktwain

I’m with you. We are actually witnessing a grand reformation of the GOP. Old fart RINOs and Never Trumpers have been jumping ship for 4 years (while deluding themselves that Trump is a temporary mistake) and these fools actually believe that their old Repub Party will be there ready to resume the Bushes agenda and new world order. WRONG! Trump found the truth about us conservatives and campaigned to it in 2016. Close border, clean swamp, punish China, fix military, destroy ISS, improve economy, deregulate business, lower taxes, stop the silly climate change spending, withdraw from never-ending oil wars, fight fake news.... etc. We will NEVER go back to those pasty old Republicans and their corruptions. We now see how it’s done and we aren’t returning.


71 posted on 10/20/2020 8:10:36 AM PDT by moodyskeptic (MAGA convert)
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To: Grampa Dave
Does National Review have any paying subscribers?

I dropped them at least 12 years ago, especially after Buckley died. they had more and more treacherous articles like “the conservative case for” this or that leftist dogma, or fawning over Barack Obama.

When they finally switched to Facebook-moderated comments, I stopped visiting their site entirely.

72 posted on 10/20/2020 8:11:41 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Zhang Fei
“I’m not voting for him, rather, because his character flaws keep him from meeting the threshold conditions to be entrusted with the presidency. “

So he want to elect a candidate (biden) who is for sale, wants to impose radical policies on the American people, whose drug addicted son was his bagman and apparently has child pornography on his laptop.

This article won't age well.

The NR will eventually sell for $1 just like newsweak.

73 posted on 10/20/2020 8:15:28 AM PDT by desertfreedom765
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To: Zhang Fei

“Ramesh Ponnuru.”

I stopped reading right there.

I leave it to others to say whether I was right or wrong.


74 posted on 10/20/2020 8:16:21 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: Zhang Fei

Yes, President Trump delivers on substance, to an historic degree.

But because of the tone of his voice, I’d rather turn the country over to corrupt socialists, bent on destroying it...


75 posted on 10/20/2020 8:16:29 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: moodyskeptic; marktwain

I’m with you. We are actually witnessing a grand reformation of the GOP. Old fart RINOs and Never Trumpers have been jumping ship for 4 years (while deluding themselves that Trump is a temporary mistake) and these fools actually believe that their old Repub Party will be there ready to resume the Bushes agenda and new world order. WRONG! Trump found the truth about us conservatives and campaigned to it in 2016. Close border, clean swamp, punish China, fix military, destroy ISS, improve economy, deregulate business, lower taxes, stop the silly climate change spending, withdraw from never-ending oil wars, fight fake news.... etc. We will NEVER go back to those pasty old Republicans and their corruptions. We now see how it’s done and we aren’t returning.


Wishful thinking. The GOP is structurally corrupt and has exactly zero interest in reform. Rotating in a few fresh faces isn’t going to change a thing. Reelecting China Mitch and Linda Grahmnesty will not result in new outcomes. The GOP is what it is. Sorry.


76 posted on 10/20/2020 8:18:27 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Zhang Fei

This story needs a “barf alert,” it’s so bad.


77 posted on 10/20/2020 8:20:19 AM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: Zhang Fei

National PeeYou still doing the globalist/NWO/DS/Dem bidding, I see.


78 posted on 10/20/2020 8:20:32 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Zhang Fei

The Never-Trumpers at National Review spew their garbage!


79 posted on 10/20/2020 8:21:46 AM PDT by oil_dude
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To: Zhang Fei

Who still reads this tripe?


80 posted on 10/20/2020 8:23:23 AM PDT by Antoninus (The press has lost the ability to persuade. They retain the ability to foment a panic.)
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