Posted on 06/18/2015 4:34:22 PM PDT by cotton1706
Well. This is telling.
One of the striking aspects of Donald Trump’s announcement that he is running for president is the vehemence of his critics – on the conservative side.
The normally even-keeled Dana Perino almost foamed on the set of Fox News’ “The Five” as she fumed about Trump’s line that he would not only build a wall that only he could build along the Mexican border but he would make the Mexicans pay for it. Over at National Review the normally astute Kevin Williamson went off not just the deep end but the very, very deep end in a column calling Trump – no kidding – a “Witless Ape.” In which it seems that Trump’s style (“the worst taste since Caligula”) and wife (a “ plastic-surgery-disaster wife”) were as offensive as Trump himself, the latter “a reality-television grotesque…grunting like a baboon about our country’s ‘brand’ and his own vast wealth.”
Let’s start with Williamson, whose piece should perhaps be retitled “Witless Writer Jumps the Shark.”
Having worked his way through a spray of bile unworthy of National Review not to mention the normally serious Williamson himself, there was a Williamson presentation of bankruptcy that was either willfully ignorant or maybe just blissfully so. Not to mention, Williamson revealed himself as historically clueless on the subject of presidents and bankruptcy.
And, oh yes. Let’s not forget the panel that appeared on Bret Baier’s “Special Report” the evening of Trump’s announcement. In which “conservatives” George Will and Charles Krauthammer joined liberal Mara Liasson in dissing Trump to substitute host Doug McKelway.
Why would conservative commentators pile on America’s arguably most famous capitalist? And not just pile on, either. This was, both individually in some cases and certainly collectively a full-blown temper tantrum worthy of a two-year old.
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I think they’re also pissed because Trump stepped on Jeb Bush’s big moment. NOBODY is talking about Jeb!
Trump contributed to the Clinton Foundation. He could be running as a spoiler, imho.
Trump is an easy target. He’s the ‘short bus’ candidate and the mean kids are going to dogpile him because there’s no downside to being mean to Trump.
I thought that it was because in 1999, said that he wanted Oprah for his veep candidate, and in 2004 said that he was a democrat, and then this week said again that he wants Oprah for his vice president, and also said this week that Clinton was his favorite president?
If you support the 69 year old huckster, do you think that Oprah would take over as president in 2020, or 2024?
IMHO?
They are scared Lhitsess because "The Donald" will get a Harley Ridin' Union Steel Worker who is tired of the Bull**** to the lever for him like they did for Reagan.
I am not sure Jindal, Cruz, Walker, Paul will get um.
Just my 2 cents...
Or maybe: Ross Perot.
Celebrity candidates are untested and usually erratic or unstable.
Jeb who?
Donald Trump Says He Would Threaten to Tax China 25%
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2698460/posts
Donald Trump: Chinese ‘Looking to Strip Us of Everything’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2666755/posts
Donald Trump: Oil warrior
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2702389/posts
Donald Trump Running for President of the United States (Good example of really bad writing)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2693630/posts
Why We Need Donald Trump
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2699093/posts
It made sense either way.
Indeed...that’s definitely the case here. Before anyone draws a comparison with Reagan, Reagan had foundational conservative beliefs which shone through during his electoral campaign.
That is a most ridiculous comparison, do you know anything at all about Churchill?
Trump by the way, went after a stack of draft deferments, Churchill was just the opposite.
Trump is loudly speaking about the things the American public really want. I believe he is sincere and is one of us. He’s born here. He is wanting to get rid of the illegals. He wants America to run it’s businesses here.
I think it’s true that many of those running do not have a chance to win. What is their purpose of running when that is so obvious?
He is not with the insiders and likely that is it. He’s not in the clique and for that I say good.
I don’t know about GOP-E big wigs, but I do know why conservatives are not happy with Trump:
He’s not a conservative.
You don’t donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats, who are our sworn enemies where our liberties and freedoms are concerned, donate to Liberal Republicans who could care less about our rights and liberties and then refuse to donate to conservatives and still get to call yourself a conservative.
Additionally, you don’t get to denigrate Reagan as if he was just some two-bit actor, as Trump has done, and get to call yourself a conservative or get my respect.
Finally, you don’t declare that Bill Clinton was the best President out of the last four and get to call yourself a conservative.
He’s a trojan horse, whose sole purpose is to pull a Perot in 2016.
Trump is an idiot, RINO fraudster who is only there to help Hillary by dividing the GOP. Does Mark Levin (who owns part of Conservative Review) actually support him?
Did you read the article without spouting your usual blather?
Trump is good for some fireworks and little else.
He would, and he will, throw every single American man woman and child to the sharks to make a dollar for HIMSELF.
I rather enjoyed Kevin Williamson’s kneecapping of The Donald.
We do NOT want this azzclown as President. He isn’t conservative. He isn’t a viable alternative to Ted Cruz or Scott Walker, or even Rick Perry, and anyone who thinks he somehow is has not been paying attention to the man’s history and his career.
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