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Against Trump (RINOs dedicate entire magazine to Trump bashing)
NRO ^ | January 22, 2016 | Numerous RINOs

Posted on 01/22/2016 6:44:33 AM PST by 20yearsofinternet

Trump nevertheless offers a valuable warning for the Republican party. If responsible men irresponsibly ignore an issue as important as immigration, it will be taken up by the reckless. If they cannot explain their Beltway maneuvers - worse, if their maneuvering is indefensible - they will be rejected by their own voters. If they cannot advance a compelling working-class agenda, the legitimate anxieties and discontents of blue-collar voters will be exploited by demagogues. We sympathize with many of the complaints of Trump supporters about the GOP, but that doesn't make the mogul any less flawed a vessel for them.

Some conservatives have made it their business to make excuses for Trump and duly get pats on the head from him. Count us out. Donald Trump is a menace to American conservatism who would take the work of generations and trample it underfoot in behalf of a populism as heedless and crude as the Donald himself.

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To: major-pelham
Brent Bozell was a great guy - until 9pm est last night. Frig him.

I'm with you. That is, my stoppage came at 10 this morning when I watched him come unhinged on the Bill & Martha show.

61 posted on 01/22/2016 7:21:00 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: central_va

What’s wrong with attending an Ivy League school and being a lawyer and a US Senator? Robert Taft, one of the founders of modern conservatism was all three.


62 posted on 01/22/2016 7:21:16 AM PST by Fiji Hill (Ted Cruz in 2016!)
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To: AuntB; Liz; hoosiermama

Highly respected Constitutional law professor Mary Brigid McManamon has just stated, "Ted Cruz is not eligible to be President." Big problem— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 22, 2016


63 posted on 01/22/2016 7:21:39 AM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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Note to self . . buy more popcorn.


64 posted on 01/22/2016 7:21:58 AM PST by Jenny217
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To: major-pelham

and in return Bob Dole is now the greatest here on FR


65 posted on 01/22/2016 7:22:34 AM PST by Chauncey Uppercrust (CHRISTIAN LIFE AND DEATH ISSUES ARE NOT "JUST POLITICS" VOTE CRUZ)
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To: montag813

Did they EVER do this before? Dedicate an entire issue in opposition to one candidate before a single vote is cast? Did they ever do an issue like this when 0bama arrived on the National stage?

I have always voted for the nominee, no matter who I voted for in the primaries...and since 1992 they were always a different candidate than who eventually ended up on the ticket.


66 posted on 01/22/2016 7:23:56 AM PST by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

Kind of sums it up, doesn’t it?


67 posted on 01/22/2016 7:23:57 AM PST by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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To: Bushbacker1
When was the last time you felt good about anything?


68 posted on 01/22/2016 7:24:46 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Jane Long; Cboldt

C check out Jane’s post


69 posted on 01/22/2016 7:24:59 AM PST by hoosiermama (Make America Great Again by uniting Great Americans)
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To: The Toll

It is about telling us that THEY chose the candidates not us. Just that simple.

Like the thugs on the internet, who scream that: we are dumb, not Christian and not conservative enough to pick our candidate.

It is about telling us that THEY chose the candidates not us. Just that simple.

How an Obscure Adviser to Pat Buchanan Predicted the Wild Trump Campaign in 1996

The Week dot com ^ | Michael Brendan Dougherty
Posted on 1/20/2016, 2:17:11 AM by WayneLusvardi

Imagine giving this advice to a Republican presidential candidate: What if you stopped calling yourself a conservative and instead just promised to make America great again?

What if you dropped all this leftover 19th-century piety about the free market and promised to fight the elites who were selling out American jobs?

What if you just stopped talking about reforming Medicare and Social Security and instead said that the elites were failing to deliver better healthcare at a reasonable price?

What if, instead of vainly talking about restoring the place of religion in society something that appeals only to a narrow slice of Middle America. You simply promised to restore the Middle American core, the economic and cultural losers of globalization to their rightful place in America?

What if you said you would re store them as the chief clients of the American state under your watch, being mindful of their interests when regulating the economy or negotiating trade deals?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3385923/posts


70 posted on 01/22/2016 7:26:08 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Obama is living proof off the disaster of not sticking to the Wisdom of our Founding Fathers!!)
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To: publius911

I hope if she starts, Trump just walks off the stage saying, you want to make your point, make it to this empty podium.


71 posted on 01/22/2016 7:28:21 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: Fiji Hill

Taft ate whole bakeries and couldn’t fit into a bath tub.


72 posted on 01/22/2016 7:30:25 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: hoosiermama; Jane Long
Trump is drawing attention to Brigid McManamon's story published in WaPo on January 12. Perhaps this will pit the opposing "legal experts" in a public battle.

Thank you very much for alerting me about Trump's tweet.

73 posted on 01/22/2016 7:31:09 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: LostInBayport

“He doesn’t “reach across the aisle” like McCain. And, he got Mitch McConnell upset by calling him a liar. Turtle didn’t come out of his shell for a week. I remember NR being very laudatory towards Boehner and McConnell.”

Exactly. Someone should ask: and where did these Ideas of yours work out for us?


74 posted on 01/22/2016 7:31:32 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: SueRae
,i>Did they EVER do this before? Dedicate an entire issue in opposition to one candidate before a single vote is cast?

In 1962 and 1965, NR devoted an entire issue to attacking the John Birch Society, but as far as I know, they have never before done this to a presidential candidate.

75 posted on 01/22/2016 7:31:57 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: 20yearsofinternet

I’m betting they endorsed McCain and I know NRO endorsed Romney. Some real conservative’s there.


76 posted on 01/22/2016 7:34:24 AM PST by DouglasKC (I'm pro-choice when it comes to lion killing....)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin
Look, the issue with those people is that the first thing they're interested in is winning the election.

Yes, they foolishly want to win and not have Hilary or Bernie Sanders select the next 3 or 4 SCOTUS justices.

So they almost always gravitate to the candidate they see as the most electable. Most of them would agree that they'd personally prefer a more conservative candidate, but they've become defeatist and no longer believe a strong conservative can win.

And they aren't fooled by Trump into thinking he is a "strong conservative." There is no evidence to support that theory, and lots to debunk it.

77 posted on 01/22/2016 7:34:43 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: 20yearsofinternet

Donald Trump is a crony capitalists and a charlatan with a conservative record of ZERO, Sarah Palin is a sellout for not giving the only Tea Party conservative in the race a chance to even make it to the FIRST PRIMARY (!!!), and a growing number of Tea Party conservatives are beginning to speak out about it. Amen to that!


78 posted on 01/22/2016 7:34:50 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: Cboldt; BlackFemaleArmyCaptain; Amntn; onyx; nopardons

Thanks for the information about the magazine article. Others should. Know


79 posted on 01/22/2016 7:36:36 AM PST by hoosiermama (Make America Great Again by uniting Great Americans)
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To: 20yearsofinternet
I'm in shock. Not really. Some seem to think as this bunch can speak on behalf of all. What complete arrogance.
80 posted on 01/22/2016 7:38:08 AM PST by djstex (Sarah Palin," I'm in It to Win It" Trump Towers Above the Rest)
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