"I love conservatism; I am one. But what good is it if all you do is write about it?
Do the liberals write about liberalism, or do they do it?
There needs to be some implementation at some point,
some advocacy for implementation at some point,
or being a conservative is meaningless."
"It's not the Democrat Party attacking carried interest.
Have you noticed that?
The Democrat Party, whenever they talk about raising taxes, they always exempt the hedge fund people."
"The Democrats are not making a move on carried interest and haven't. They're trying to protect the hedge fund guys because most of the hedge fund guys are big Democrats, a good percentage of them are,
as are a lot of the Wall Street CEOs,
as are a lot of media CEOs.
They're all liberal Democrats."
"The Democrat Party, contrary to what everybody thinks, is NOT circling the wagons and DEFENDING the little guy. The Democrat Party's in bed with Wall Street.
That's why Bernie Sanders is not going to get the Democrat Party nomination
no matter what
because he's serious about implementing policies that would PUNISH those people financially."
"If I know Trump, he'll have a codicil to his tax increase,
and it will be an option not to pay it."
"When Buckley passed away it became an open competition for who was gonna replace him.
Who was gonna be Mr. Conservative?
Who was gonna be the guy that determined what was and who was
and what isn't and who isn't conservative.
The battle's NEVER been WON. I mean, there is no singular figure, particularly in the literary world, to have filled the Buckley role. It's an ongoing competition."
"I have NEVER thought of Donald Trump as a conservative. And I've never felt like, well,
he's not worthy of speaking on things I believe in
'cause he's not a conservative.
That's not my attitude. I know he's NOT a liberal. I know he's nowhere near what modern day liberalism is."
"All of this support for Trump, this movement,
whatever you call this that's happening with Trump,
it's NOT about conservatism. And that doesn't bother me. But some in the conservative movement are pulling their hair out over this."
"People supporting Trump are not supporting Trump 'cause they've been fooled or bamboozled or told to. It's because of real things happening in the country that apparently some don't see."
"I RESPECT, and always have, the intelligence of those of you in this audience. There's not a moment of condescension here, not real condescension. There may be moments of satire and parody."
"When you began to note that your own party was falling for this insane idea
that the only way it could ever win the White House
was to emulate the Democrats on ILLEGAL immigration,
that was it. There was no way you were ever gonna be convinced of that. That was absurd. It was silly. It remains absurd. It remains silly to this day. Mitt Romney, had he gotten 70% of the Hispanic vote, would have still lost the presidency."
"Everybody who's even paying halfway attention knows full well
that ILLEGAL immigration is nothing more than a voter registration drive FOR the Democrat Party.
And people who have been donating to the Republican Party for all these years can't figure out
WHY the Republicans don't see that."
"There's NO immigration policy being followed here.
There's NO immigration protocols being followed here.
This is AN INVASION.
We're being overwhelmed at the Southern border."
"We're not talking immigration anymore. Immigration is made up of people who've been IN LINE for years.
They're filling out the forms. They're doing everything the law requires,
and not nearly enough of THOSE people are getting in."
"This ISN'T politics-as-usual here. We've just SECURED Iran getting a nuclear bomb, for crying out loud. Does anybody really know WHAT THAT means?"
"I'm even cooler than many of you thought I was."
"What in the world has even happened to the political instincts of the opposition party?"
"Even if you DON'T have the votes, you don't think, to override a veto, MAKE HIM veto it. DEFUND Planned Parenthood! Everybody in the world needs TO FIND OUT what's happening in that place."
"With this Republican debate, CNN is gonna get the biggest audience they've had for...
Well, since the Malaysian jet."
"The desire to raise taxes on the hedge funds, get rid of carried interest, is not an idea that originates with Trump. It's been floating out there."
"The tax code to the Democrat Party is social architecture. The LAST thing they care about is whether or not it raises any revenue."
"A lot of industries come up with their own lexicon, their own language. It's a way of identifying who's in and who isn't."
"If Jeb is telling people in Spanish
that Trump isn't a conservative,
does that mean that Hispanics WANT TO ELECT a conservative ?
Because we're not told THAT.
Just a little thing to think about there, folks."
"Within the conservative movement, you have all kinds of people.
You have conservative intellectuals. You have the conservative intelligentsia. You have the rank-and-file.
You have the magazine and website editors and writers.
It's an entire menagerie of people."
"What good are conservative principles if all that's ever done with them is writing? What good are conservative principles if all anybody ever does is talk about them?"
"Occupy Wall Street was everything the Tea Party wasn't. Occupy Wall Street was made up.
It was designed. It was planned,
it was executed, it was created, and it was created as a counter."
"The Republican Party was, in my estimation, given -- not for anything they did -- a majority. And the Republican Party made NOT ONE MOVE to EMBRACE the Tea Party."
"You can only tell people they're UNsophisticated so many times
when they're staring the loss of their country in the face
with this INVASION, ILLEGAL immigration, and ObamaCare,
and all of these executive orders that Obama's doing.
And there's not A SINGLE OUNCE of APPARENT opposition TO ANY OF IT !"
"Snerdley's getting a lot of callers today from people who are supposedly supposed to be scared of me.
Young women -- you know, 19-, 22-, 24-year-old women --
they're supposed to be afraid of me
'cause they don't like being yelled at or some such thing.
That's what I was told,
but here they are. They're calling in in droves!
Massive, massive demographic reach evidence here today."
"I don't have a candidate yet. I have respect for a lot of these people. I have like for a whole lot of them."
113 posted on 09/02/2015 10:20:07 PM PDT by Yosemitest
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