Posted on 06/18/2015 4:34:22 PM PDT by cotton1706
Well. This is telling.
One of the striking aspects of Donald Trumps 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 Trumps 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 Trumps 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 countrys brand and his own vast wealth.
Lets 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. Lets not forget the panel that appeared on Bret Baiers Special Report the evening of Trumps 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 Americas 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at conservativereview.com ...
Is this a joke? $9 billion in assets and $11 billion is debt makes you a "famous capitalist"? I could name at least 30 men who deserve that title about this schmuck.
Does Trump still support single payer healthcare??
Trump deserves to be attacked but only on his past liberal positions
Usual blather?
What does that even mean? I guess you didn’t want to acknowledge these facts.
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?
Why do you always seem to be searching for slick ways to support liberals?
Because the article isn’t really about Trump. Jeffrey Lord is an historic master. He tears apart the GOP media establishment.
Again, READ. THE. ARTICLE.
Yes, and he was a Democrat originally, so all this BS about to whom Trump has contributed is just so much crap. Hell, I'll bet you that the Koch Bros. give money to some RATs. The way things are unfolding for the “politicians” that are running, Trump may be a charlatan of sorts, but I think he knows that the politicians are not going to do anything to fix what's wrong with America.
Really? He considers himself a democrat, he wants Oprah Winfrey to be his vice president, which means the future president, and his favorite president is Bill Clinton.
Your OK with the GOP nominating a Bill Clinton loving democrat, with Oprah as his veep?
What time frame is, “Originally?” Did you see Reagan’s speech in support of Goldwater? If not, you should watch it. That was forty years before his Presidency.
Well, to start with, Dana Perino made a complete ass out of herself on “The Five” yesterday attacking co-host Eric Bolling, who was semi complimentary to Trump. But, everybody knows she orgasms over anyone named Bush. The last 4 letters of her last name spell RINO. As Joe Scarborough said this morning: The Joke just might be on anyone who thinks that Trump is a Joke.
They’re all worried Trump is going to get on the debate stage and throw populist hand grenades. If he pulls the pin it will expose the beltway pigs for their double dealing.
So the beltway GOP & allies will do their best to make Trump irrelevant before that happens.
Yeah, it is an article that praises Trump,
Trump is bad news, and he doesn’t “resonate” with conservatives.
Yes I think he’s a spoiler, yes I think he will stick us with an establishment candidate, and yes I am certain he will gleefully skewer (or suck the oxygen out of the room for) any candidate he doesn’t think is up to snuff.
No, don’t be looking for the Mexicans to be paying for a border fence anytime soon.
Piss on Jeb
No Trump.
Except that Trump is like one of those kids who gets punched and knocked down, stands up, spits out his front tooth, and smiles...
...and then punches back.
Like Ronald Reagan or Sonny Bono, or how about Clint Eastwood? Might want to rethink your post.
If not literally double dealing, at least for not following through. By the way, very nice turn of phrase by you. It captures the establishment fears very well. All will try to make the message about Trump, not about the issues. He's not afraid of them - has nothing to lose. I hope he hangs in for a year.
“Celebrity candidates are untested and usually erratic or unstable.”
Does that include successful billionaires who are stable enough to become celebrities?
“I think its true that many of those running do not have a chance to win. What is their purpose of running when that is so obvious?”
You just made an excellent point. Do you hear anyone accusing any of them of doing it just to get attention? Actually, that is what it is for.
“Trump is an idiot, RINO fraudster who is only there to help Hillary by dividing the GOP.”
Boehner, McConnell, and the Republican caucus already have that cornered.
**”Yes, and he was a Democrat originally, so all this BS about to whom Trump has contributed is just so much crap.”**
Don’t be a fool, what does voting democrat in the 1930s and WWII have to do with Trump’s liberal politics of the 21st century?
Reagan wasn’t a draft dodger (Reagan served from 1937-1945), Trump was.
The last time Reagan voted Dem for President was 1948, for Bill clinton is Trump’s favorite president, By 1952 Reagan was campaigning for Republicans as a Democrat for Eisenhower, he kept using that anti-liberal, conservative campaigning slogan until 1962.
In 1952 Reagan was campaigning for Republicans like Eisenhower, who he campaigned for again in 1956, and then campaigned for Nixon against JFK in 1960, already having earned a reputation as an active speaker for conservatism for years.
Reagan formally registered Republican in 1962 and spoke at the Goldwater convention in 1964.
Reagan was famous for his conservatism before the Vietnam War, and the Great Society, Roe V Wade, the abortion wars, Jimmy Carter, decades of Cold War defeats, and the radical 1960s, before the Reagan Revolution and the Contract with America, and the Clinton years, and the Gore election of 2000, and two terms of Obama.
Reagan and Trump have nothing in common.
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