Posted on 01/19/2016 3:58:05 AM PST by TBBT
Donald Trump has been teasing a "major endorsement" that he is scheduled to release today in Iowa, and the rampant speculation is that it will be Sarah Palin's. I don't really know if this particular speculation is true, but I do know that if Palin doesn't endorse Trump today, she will endorse him eventually. At this point, only a particularly aggressive hair splitter would concede that she has not endorsed Trump already.
The last few months have not been pretty for conservatives who have long denied with angry vehemence the allegation that many of the leading figures in the conservative movement were only in it for the money and/or the attention. Liberals have long claimed that this was true about people like Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and a long list of others, especially including Sarah Palin.
Oh, how we have been deceived by the dulcet tones of arguments that sound internally consistent and which fit with our own preconceived notions of the world. "Nonsense," we loudly declared. "These people believe things, and we can tell you with certainty what they are! See, we have their books that we have purchased where it is all laid out!"
The going narrative in and around DC is that the Trump assault has been an eye-opening phenomenon to the GOP Establishment. Maybe, maybe not. I have my doubts about Mitch McConnell and gang's ability to learn anything, and they are moreover already cozying up to the Trump organization anticipating that he will win the nomination.
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“Yesterday Rush sounded like a shill for Cruz “
He sure did, big-time. Disgustingly so, because he won’t own up to the fact that he’s a CruzBot. He isn’t being honest with his audience. We’re on to him because he’s so blatant about it. You’d have to be a total dunce to not have figured it out. Good old Mr. Impartiality is whoring for Cruz, while trying to deny the obvious.
As I said in Post #27:
I have never known him to be dishonest, but he was yesterday and It opened my eyes to Rush.
I still don’t dislike him, but I realized much of what he says about his rules are just baloney.
He was a big GWB fan, so I guess he isn’t all that conservative because Bush sure wasn’t.
You will know that the Sanctimonious Conservative cult is a small minority. Conservatism is growing and Trump is growing it.
You just don’t think anyone other than someone who has been in politics for decades and has a pure record is qualified. You believe there is a Holy of Holies when it comes to politics.
Where does Goldman Sachs fit into your Temple?
Pray America wakes
He probably does prefer Cruz, I think he's called him the most consistent conservative in the race, that's an open secret.
Rush also once shilled for Scott Walker, saying he was our perfect candidate, lauding him daily for months.
He also apparently loves a lot of things Trump has done, as his program has pushed him during other times.
You don't like what he's doing today? Call him or get your own show.
PDS is expected to once again rear its ugly head at Free Republic today.
At best, Trump is an opportunist. At worst, he’s a globalist. Here’s an article he wrote in 2013. http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/22/business/opinion-donald-trump-europe/
So he bought the Trune golf course which is one of the most famous courses in the world when the Euro was down. As he said he stole it. He should be lynched for being such an evil globalist.
Don’t you have some sort of High Priest sermon to go to for the sanctimonious Conservatives. Since when is there a purity test for Conservatism and how bad would Reagan have failed it with the internet.
As I said in Post #51
No Rush did not "laud" Walker "daily for months." The only one Rush has done that for is Donald Trump.
Your case of butt hurt is duly noted.
GO TRUMP GO!
And he did it over a period of months.
I hear him most days for his first hour over lunch. I said the same thing on a thread of yours about this same subject when Walker tanked. There were others that remembered it too, not just me.
It was hard not to notice when he did it. Unfortunately, it had little effect.
It's also hard not to notice him saying he thinks Cruz is the most consistent conservative in the race, as the Trump supporting FlagLady just complained about.
From a gray hair: Conservatism is not only gone, so are many things in our country - morals, honesty, marriage is on its way out (40some percent living together), family unimportant, pedophilia soon to be allowed. Just name it- if policies or laws were good for our physical and emotional well being - it is on the way out.
We have to face facts, look to God and pray for the best.
Can’t wait for author Leon Wolf and others like him to be rendered irrelevant in the Trump era of American politics. I’m sorry but this whole thing about “conservative” puritinism is just silly. It’s a variant of the crap that the GOPe has been doling out to religious voters for decades; you construct this big litmus test around a set of ideas that matters immensely supposedly in the political process, but in the end means nothing in the actual corridors of power in Washington. Let’s get real people, Ted Cruz hasn’t done any more to move the needle towards conservatism than Mitch McConnell has. It’s all Kabuki. Palin will help Trump win Iowa and if he does that, then he’ll run the table, get the nomination, win the general, close the border, deport the illegals, arrest the crooks, kill the terrorists, bring jobs back and make America great again! Leon Wolf will start an ostrich farm somewhere and Ted Cruz will become Prime Minister of Canada.
You are 100% right...and buy ammo.
This post is so absolutely telling. You have no idea. I’m going to hold on to it for further reference.
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