Posted on 09/14/2015 4:15:18 PM PDT by cotton1706
New York Times columnist David Brooks chastised supporters of Dr. Ben Carson and Donald Trump for showing insufficient respect for the Republican establishment.
Its like a mutiny, not a campaign, Brooks said on Sundays Meet the Press.The problem is, theres an illusion in this country, and in the Republican base, that you can govern by screaming.
Responding to host Chuck Todds earlier interview with Chris Christie, Brooks criticized the New Jersey governor for attacking the Republican party before he did Democrats. His first answer to you was not an attack on the Democrats, it wasnt an attack on Hillary Clinton it was an attack on Republicans, he said.
We have a very tough legislative system, and you need craftsmen, Brooks continued. And there is insufficient respect for that right now among the Carson and Trump supporters.
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“insufficiently Respect”??? Those traitors-to-their-electorate and traitors-to-their-oaths should be arrested, jailed and exiled.
Conservatives were fed up with the GOP-E when force fed Dole, McCain, Romney, and for many, G.W.Bush:
The party has been good old boy'd to its own death.
“Sufficient respect” for GOP establishment characters would involve fair trials and fine hangings.
I wonder if they thought the Dean Scream was ok?
When the bus is going over the cliff, the thing to do is to softly whisper, "pardon me, but I do believe that we've drifted a bit off course."
Maybe this one:
I know what you mean. These people suffer from head-up-their-asses disease.
I’m not stupid, and hold the gop in contempt! I will respect those I believe have earned it not those that demand it.
I Will vote for Trump/Cruz and if the gope don’t like it... too bad!
Possibly true; I have zero respect for the GOP-e
Brooks is such a complete pu$$y.
I mean he swooned over the Kenyan because he had a sharp crease in his slacks !!!!! WTF?
He can keep his head up his rectum, and then GTH!
Brooks is such a complete pu$$y.
I mean he swooned over the Kenyan because he had a sharp crease in his slacks !!!!! WTF?
He can keep his head up his rectum, and then GTH!
GOp has not earned respect.
I saw that and laughed. All the GOPe pundits are in pre-psychotic breakdown at this point. LOL!
Why should anyone care about advice the New York Times gives to Republicans?
The last Republican presidential candidate they endorsed for a November election was Eisenhower. That was before I was born!
And remember how the Times acted in 2008. First they recommended that the Republicans choose McCain in the primaries. Then when McCain had the nomination in the bag, they turned against him with frivolous charges of sexual harassment. That was a reminder to me that they don’t have the GOP’s best interests at heart, and it’s a safe bet that they don’t want a Republican to get elected next year.
Every statement like this drives Trump’s polls up another few points. And they can’t do to Trump what they are doing to Walker - basically ignore him until he goes away. Trump ain’t going away quietly.
Oh, my, I wonder if Brooks plans to form Etiquette Squads à la the Clinton people during the last presidential run of the PIAPS.
I can assure them, I definitely have no respect for the GOP establishment. This occurred because they first showed no respect for me as a voter.
More advice from a buffon, who is paid by the Ny Slimes to lie and spread dissent to any republican dumb enough to read his bs.
Follow the money on the Trump bashers pretending to help us be good people.
I don’t know who David Brooks is, but I can tell by his comments, he is out of touch with the American people!
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