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Dinesh D'Souza: National Review Won't 'Dent Donald Trump's Real Support'
News Max ^ | 22 Jan 2016 | Bill Hoffmann

Posted on 01/23/2016 9:07:19 AM PST by VitacoreVision

National Review's scathing indictment of Donald Trump will do very little to dissuade most Republicans from supporting him for the GOP presidential nomination, conservative pundit and acclaimed documentary filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza tells Newsmax TV.

"I don't think this is going to dent Trump's real support," D'Souza said Friday on "The Steve Malzberg Show."

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"It is good for intellectual conservatives to weigh in on this. Their points are not entirely invalid. Also, National Review historically has had a role of, you may say, policing the right. Even in Buckley's day," he said.

"There was a John Birch Society, there were people who were anti-Semitic while claimed to be conservative and Buckley saw it as his job to say the fence is drawn over here, you're on the outside of the fence.

"So they're trying to play a little bit of that historical role, but of course the circumstances are quite different."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
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To: libbylu

That is absolutely true. The question is whether any of it makes a difference to voters on the fence.
70% or so don’t support DT. Is it possible that as their candidates drop out they will not go DT?

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It’s apparent from the diehard Cruz supporters on FR that if Cruz doesn’t win, they will NOT vote. They’ll instead stay home and have a little pity party.

Trump supporters (including me) OTH will gladly vote for Cruz should things take a turn. We live in the real world.


21 posted on 01/23/2016 9:30:02 AM PST by Artcore
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To: dp0622

You just nailed it! A leader is what we must have to reverse the nosedive this country is in. Take it or leave it, there is no other leader on the horizon. Cruz can’t even lead his own party in the Senate. Trump is proven successful in high stakes business. I’m not voting for another get nothing done politician.


22 posted on 01/23/2016 9:30:10 AM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: twister881

“Massive buyers’ remorse to follow when they realize they’ve nominated and perhaps elected White Obama.”

A massive cognitive dissonance will follow. They will claim, “at least Trump SPOKE... Trump was blackmailed into it, the REAL Trump would have kicked the illegals out and built the wall (with the most beautiful door), with his OWN money. Trump has the money for the wall, but THEY stopped him. Trump atleast SPOKE! wah wah”, when Trump switches to the Democratic party a week after his coronation and works with the dems to give blanket amnesty.


23 posted on 01/23/2016 9:30:13 AM PST by sagar
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To: euram

Excellent post and points .


24 posted on 01/23/2016 9:32:16 AM PST by Neu Pragmatist (Cruz rode Trump's coattails . The ride is over . With Cruz we lose)
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To: dp0622

I am in that frame of thought too, only I also realize that Trump is in line with about 80% of the conservative issues. So he is a leader without ties to special interests (big benefit) who mostly agrees with my thinking. (Especially about political correctness — which I believe is sapping our freedom).

I also believe Trump will gain the appeal of disenfranchised dems as time goes on because he will choose positions that help the general middle class. (His words anyway). Who would not want jobs over welfare, if the jobs provided a better life?


25 posted on 01/23/2016 9:32:54 AM PST by KC_for_Freedom (California engineer (ret) and ex-teacher (ret) now part time Professor (what do you know?))
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To: VitacoreVision

National Review is like the boy who cried wolf.

Over the past years and election cycles they’ve blown their credibility.

It is exactly because of people who wrote these articles (with exceptions like Thomas Sowell) that Trump gained so much traction. It is a reaction against the GOPe and NR crowd.

So how could their anti-Trump issue do anything but reinforce to Trump supporters that they are right?

I supported Trump for a while. He won me over til he started impugning Cruz’ integrity and I found out he is a Soros associate.

Trump is not the guy we need. But this NR crowd isn’t either and their arguments are not good.


26 posted on 01/23/2016 9:34:06 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ncpatriot

No, it doesn’t seem so (according to Wikipedia). They were criticized for accepting Jewish members as well as those of other minority religions.

However, I think Mr. D’Souza was listing the John Birch Society and “people who were anti-Semitic” as separate items, not as two ways of identifying the same group.


27 posted on 01/23/2016 9:35:05 AM PST by Tax-chick (Alive, awake, alert, enthusiastic, and mildly hostile toward the universe.)
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To: Eddie01

‘They just threw the kitchen sink at Trump and guess what, they relegated themselves to the dustheap of history.’

That reminds me of the observation by Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame. Speaking of the Gang of 22, he said their screeds are:

‘the linguistic equivalent of throwing your gun at a monster because the magazine is empty.’

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/137816083466/updating-the-persuasion-stack-national-reviews


28 posted on 01/23/2016 9:35:41 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: KC_for_Freedom

1990 - Bush I — pseudo-conservative
1994 - Dole — not conservative
2000 - Bush II — pseudo-conservative
2004 - Bush II — not conservative
2008 - McCain — not conservative
2012 - Romney — not conservative
2016 - Trump — who cares about ‘pure’ conservativism, we need a leader WHO CAN WIN.

Repeating the same thing over and over again expecting different results is called INSANITY. Apparently, Republicans are INSANE!


29 posted on 01/23/2016 9:37:01 AM PST by sagar
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To: joshua c

“Can we agree that Obama is anti-American and Trump is pro-American?”

That seems clear to me. (Of course, Cruz and Carson are pro-American also.)


30 posted on 01/23/2016 9:37:21 AM PST by ChessExpert (The unemployment rate was 4.5% when Democrats took control of Congress in 2006.)
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To: Fantasywriter

Add the girly run with flappy arms and you finish the scene.


31 posted on 01/23/2016 9:37:59 AM PST by Eddie01 (mmmm Donate!)
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To: Artcore

‘Trump supporters (including me) OTH will gladly vote for Cruz should things take a turn. We live in the real world.’

+1

(Not so sure about the ‘gladly’ part, but God willing, would definitely vote for Cruz against any Dem.)


32 posted on 01/23/2016 9:38:00 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: twister881
One third of primary voters want Trump, 2/3 don’t...but that 2/3 is fractured among multiple ‘Pub candidates.

Iowa caucus is just 9 days away. Followed by New Hampshire 8 days later.

After that, the race will most likely be down to the two front runners, and those who poll for the "also rans" will likely decide which of the top two they prefer.

I predict that after "Super Tuesday" on March 1, we will know who the nominee will be.

33 posted on 01/23/2016 9:38:00 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: miss marmelstein

If FR is anything to go by

It isn’t. F.R. consists of very conservative voters and activists. The country as a whole, doesn’t care that much.


34 posted on 01/23/2016 9:38:25 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

What is the point? Two progressives fighting it out? No thanks! I don’t like NR b/c they have become GOP-E suck-ups. But, Donald is not a Constitutionalist or a conservative. No conservative supports Kelo.


35 posted on 01/23/2016 9:38:40 AM PST by alstewartfan (I woke with the frost and noticed she'd lost the veil that covered her eyes. Al Stewart)
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To: bigtoona

I think your question should also be: where was DT when they were lynching McDaniel in Mississippi?


36 posted on 01/23/2016 9:39:46 AM PST by biff
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To: VitacoreVision
Dinesh D'Souza: National Review Won't 'Dent Donald Trump's Real Support'

The libs and RINOs don't seem to understand that most of Trump's supporters can actually think for themselves and don't need "groupthink" or a bunch of pseudo intellectuals to tell us how to think.

37 posted on 01/23/2016 9:40:06 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (My Forefathers Would Be Shooting By Now!)
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To: libbylu

“Is it possible that as their candidates drop out they will not go DT?”

Absolutely possible. I’d guess 95% will vote for DT over Hillary, the other 5% will not vote.


38 posted on 01/23/2016 9:40:41 AM PST by ChessExpert (The unemployment rate was 4.5% when Democrats took control of Congress in 2006.)
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To: Eddie01

What an image! Looks like it’s:

Monster - 1

Twenty-two hand-wringers - 0


39 posted on 01/23/2016 9:40:46 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: libbylu
I think it HELPS Trump's support. There are a whole lot of people who like the idea of less government influence over their lives, of the federal government protecting us and the nation, and our Constitution. But they HATE the influence deep pocket globalist puppetmasters have over the Republican Party.

National Review just told those true conservatives that Trump is okay.

40 posted on 01/23/2016 9:41:15 AM PST by grania
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