[Cincinatus' Wife]

Good internal article links at source.

No doubt there will be some comments.

[central_va]

I Can’t Spare This Man; He Fights.

[Westbrook]

Jonah, if “anger is not an argument”, then explain how the Left has been wildly successful exploiting and employing it for generations.

[greedo]

Jonah Goldberg is a senior editor of National Review, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute


Jonah's mom must be so proud of him,

working for two employers that have to ask for donations

to keep the doors open and the lights on.

 https://www.nationalreview.com/donate

 https://www.aei.org/donate/


But he still has every right to criticize and ridicule a man who

gets up every morning and goes to work in the real world.

[txrefugee]

Apparently, Goldberg doesn’t realize that conservatives are ready to move on from the corrupt Republicans in D.C. who don’t care about anything but lying their way to re-election. Read Ted Cruz’s book, “A Time for Truth” to learn how real conservatives are persecuted by slime like Mitch McConnell.

[miss marmelstein]

Jonah, who is a New Yorker, is suddenly surprised that Trump hits back at his critics? HE’S BEEN DOING THAT FOR NIGH-ON 40 YEARS, PEOPLE! That’s his style; either get used to it or ignore it.

Funny, Jonah rode to fame on his highly-conservative mother’s coat-tails but now has joined the stupid party lock, stock and barrel.

[CincyRichieRich]

Perot put Clinton in power. Period.
For gosh sake enjoy Trump but please still vote Cruz.

[bert]

-——The Republican Party is a vessel, a tool for achieving conservative ends.-——

out of the mind of bert into the mouth of Jonah

Absent the Republican Party, there is no conservative political power

The main reason for being anti Trump is that he is a through and through New Yorker. Being labeled a New yorker is as bad as it ever gets

[dennisw]

the GOP scorecard

1. Donald Trump -- My favorite braggart! Self funded campaign but he will get hundreds of millions in donations from the outraged peasantry and patriotic millionaires. Trump is who the Dems fear the most due to Trumps populist appeal.
2. Jeb---useless RINO tool. An open borders embarrassment "Illegal immigration is an Act of love"  This idiot is successfully raising millions from Chamber of Commerce type open borders, cheap labor Republicans
3. Scott Walker  --excellent but how much money/funding can he get?
4. Rick Perry --- solid governor who is a useless Presidential candidate
5. Huckster---  name sez it all. Just go away!
6. Marco Rubio   ---really running to be Vice President. He has a good shot at it being Hispanic so a ticket balancer allegedly pulling in Hispanic votes (yeah! right!)
7. Cruz---  Very solid but what kind of money can he raise?
8. Rand Paul---  I have nothing against him

Dems

1. Hillary--- the devil incarnate in a plus+++ size pantsuit
2. Bernie Sanders--an honest socialist who is same as Trump in being against awful trade deals and open borders. Or so he says.
3.  

When I tally up I see Trump as our best candidate

[trebb]

I'm a fan of anyone who speaks the truth like Trump has been doing and then refuses to back down because the rabid Left (and some twisted-panty conservatives) don't like truth unless it comes out of their own favorite candidate's mouth.

It is the "trash Trump" while he is speaking such Truths, mentality that gave us both terms of Obama and may very well give us a Hillary.

[TalBlack]

Jonah, Trump is the measure of the Republican stupidity. THEY created the vacuum.

[JacksonCalhoun]

The problem with Jonah. and most of the conservative media in general, is that they live in an echo chamber with little or no influence on the public at large. The 2012 election really solidified that notion for me. I’m smart enough to figure out who to support and vote for without his help. And no, I’m not buying your next book.

[austinaero]

Sorry, found this article to be a tad condescending. What’s with the book mention?

So it’s ok for his boss and friend to take the same positions as Trump but not ok for Trump to do it?

I feel like I just chewed a whole lotta gum and the flavor’s gone. Reads like someone who got their feelings hurt by Trump. It’s a big “so” for me.

[WorkingClassFilth]

People who share principles should not only hear each other out when they disagree; they should be able to see each other’s points and hold open the possibility that one’s opponents have the better argument. This is not one of those times . . .


Unfortunately, Constitutional conservatives have always been given a wink and then kept in the back of the bus and only let out to do the leg work. I've been listening to this kind of crap for nearly forty years as the establishment pubbies have failed to carry the platform over and over when they have had the power and the opportunity to really make change. Now that we're on the brink of forever, this nattering nabob of negativity want us all to participate in the Punch and Judy show one more time.

[stevie_d_64]

Well, it does prove that if you have a lot of personal wealth, you would have had to do a few things right, but that doesn’t mean you are a good politician...

That being said, I do not think Trump is in this to win...He’s in there to make a splash, and a few under the table assurances for future money making endeavors...

I do not see Trump sticking around after Super Tuesday...By then a lot of these campaigns will be done for at that point, and his purpose will be done...

To push the GOP’s Jebby to the convention and another hold your nose at the polls next year...

If that happens to be the result, you can be assured Hillary will be the next president...

I really, really hope to be proven wrong next year...

[RoosterRedux]

Here's the best way to understand Trump. Trump is the first ship, the ice breaker, and Cruz is the trailing ship.

[LS]

Here is the thing about all those previous positions: Trump is just waiting for thiose questions. I think he salivates over getting them. Because he's going to be the only candidate out there who can (and will) legitimately say, "Yes I did endorse Obama in 2008 and like many Americans I am very disappointed in what a terrible job he has done. He let us all down and now we need to fix what he messed up." Or, "yes I had high hopes for Hillary, but as we have seen she was a disaster."

Trump is not an ideologue and is no conservative. Few think that.

He is a business-oriented problem solver. I would rather have a guy in there with whom I believe on three issues, but who fixes those three issues, than a guy who shares 100% of my views but can't stand up to the media and elites to get anything done.

Jonah is right, anger is not an issue. But you know what? Neither was "hope and change" or "a chicken in every pot" but they win elections because Americans anymore don't seem to have the capacity to talk issues, only passion and personality. Heck, Reagan ran on one line: "Are you better off today than you were four years ago?"

Goldberg us stuck in policy wonk world where this or that candidate's cute little tweaks impress him.

[Tax-chick]

I agree with Jonah.

[BobL]

“If you want to give him credit for starting a worthwhile debate about sanctuary cities and illegal immigration, fine. I think that argument is way overdone, but certainly reasonable enough.”

Way overdone? Does Joanne have ANY IDEA that there are 30,000,000 ILLEGALS in this country. Or does she just think that it’s only the handful he sees at Home Depot once in a while?

This is SCARY STUFF.

[Ronald_Magnus]

Great read. Thanks.

[BobL]

Calm down Joanne, if you gals REALLY want to silence him, you gals can start addressing Illegal immigration.

But since that isn’t happening, TRUMP OWNS THE STAGE - and it is YOUR FAULT that is the case, not our fault. We’ve been SCREAMING FOR YEARS for Republicans to address the issue, and we get laughed at and stepped on by your type of people.

You can’t do that to Trump - the only option you have is to ADDRESS THE ISSUE - or you may very well be covering his inauguration, because there are a lot of DEMOCRATS and Independents also fed up with what this country has become due to Open Borders.