Uptown dweebs! Is there anything they don't know?
Posted on 07/20/2015 9:23:55 AM PDT by rickyrikardo
The summer Trump polling spurt has nonetheless been instructive in exposing a growing problem on the political right. All too many conservatives, including some magazine editors, have been willing to overlook his hucksterism as he’s risen in the polls. They pretend that he deserves respect because he’s giving voice to some deep disquiet or anger in the American electorate.
But America has rarely lacked for demagogues willing to exploit public discontents. William Jennings Bryan won three Democratic presidential nominations running against eastern elites. In 1948 Henry Wallace ran as a Soviet sympathizer while Strom Thurmond won 39 electoral votes running as a segregationist. Either one would have been a disaster as President.
As a standard-bearer for conservative ideas, Mr. Trump would likewise be a catastrophe. His only discernible principle is the promotion of his personal brand. His main message seems to be that because he’s rich and doesn’t care what anyone thinks, he can afford to tell everyone to go to hell. Some Americans may find it satisfying 16 months from Election Day to tell pollsters they’d vote for him, but that doesn’t mean conservative elites should validate this nonsense.
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Apologists? Who is apologizing?
“...he’s rich and...he can afford to tell everyone to go to hell.”
Would that I were.
You are right. I appreciate the WSJ editorial board for the most part. But when they embrace a position, such as illegal immigration, they are just as human and underhanded as power hungry as the leftist media. They are not about informing the public but rather about controlling the public.
My trust in media in general is long, long gone.
If I remember correctly, wasn’t there some scandal years ago about Linda Chavez hiring an illegal alien?
Yes, it is very sad. They have clearly lost their way--and the gratuitous attack on the late Strom Thurmond is beneath contempt.
what its like to whore yourself out to Jebbie , troll?
The Amnesty journal run by Murdoch left wing son attacks the person fighting the invasion of the slave labor the WSJ demands ! Ricky are you a Amnesty bot like this Murdoch rag.
I bet YES.
Paul Gigot is protecting his WSJ job by sucking a lot of globalist scum.
There are many of us who wouldn’t vote Trump for dog catcher, who are still nonetheless appreciative of his ability to speak out on certain untouchable topics without the liberal language shroud.
They blasted Reagan almost identically....It’s really funny. It’s like the same article about Reagan.
WSJ caters to the very rich. And the rich donors command and control 15 candidates running in 2016. It does not take a rocket scientist to see what is going on.
The cheap labor express is a huge motivator for the Wall Streeters.
+1
Don’t post this one here...
The Trumpers will excoriate you and call you names...
While never admitting that they support a Liberal ;-)
The Reagan onslaught was endless. He was “just an actor”, a clown, a cowboy who will have his finger on the button...
An exchange of insults--like pre-adolescent confrontations in a playground--is not an issue for anyone really serious about an American future, to get upset over. That the Journal would seek to focus attention on that exchange--and draw moral conclusions from that exchange, antagonistic to those who have the sense not to comment on that exchange--is to take journalistic absurdity into the clouds of really confused analysis.
Let me suggest that the Journal focus on something that concerns the U.S. Military, that is 1,000 times as important as Trump returning John McCain's insult, with one of his own. What is that?
In recent weeks and months there have been repeated threats from America haters, against our military personnel & their families. Yet the Administration still has Marines & others, serving as potential targets in "gun free zones." Does anyone reading this not believe that that is the sort of outrage that the Journal ought to be concerned with--not an exchange of insults?
Will anyone defend the mental priorities of the Journal staff, in this situation? They, not Senator Cruz, who has a sense of proportion, need to be the butt of condemnation & ridicule.
I don’t see anyone claiming Trump is a born-in-a-manger, 100% pure conservative. He’s Trump, and people support his platform.
Uptown dweebs! Is there anything they don't know?
What platform is that, exactly?
Oh, there you go being logical!
Geeze, where have you been?
-Building a real wall to protect and defend the USA
-Fixing the VA
-re-negotiating all foreign trade deals
-deporting violent illegals
-making our military stronger
Sounds a lot like Cruz...
But, does he have the history to back it up?
Funny, you didn’t mention that he only wants to keep hard working illegals here.
What about the 2nd Amendment?
How is he going to make our military stronger?
How does bombing the oil fields do any good in Middle East policy?
Eminent domain?
Sounds a lot like Cruz...
-—True, but much more proactive.
But, does he have the history to back it up?
-—He has a history of accomplishing big (yuge) things in the private sector.
Funny, you didn’t mention that he only wants to keep hard working illegals here.
-—Immigration is a complex issue, and perhaps the most important in this stage of America. I don’t see anyone with a 100% perfect solution, not even Cruz with his visas.
What about the 2nd Amendment?
-—He was for gun control 15 years ago. Now he says he’s pro 2nd. Does he really look as if he’s planning this entire campaign as a sneak attack to pry the guns from our cold, dead hands?
How is he going to make our military stronger?
-—I’m ready to hear the details on that, same as you. We are a long way away from detailed plans from candidates.
How does bombing the oil fields do any good in Middle East policy?
-—How did shooting a missile through Quadafi’s living room do any good in ME policy? These people need to be smacked down, or we won’t be respected. If we aren’t respected, policy don’t mean crap.
Eminent domain?
-—kicking out all illegals as a national policy is a form of claiming eminent domain. My grandparents lost their home through eminent domain. On the totem pole of issues we face as nation, I don’t personally rank it at the top of my worries.
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