Have yourself a great week, and
Posted on 03/13/2016 7:54:48 PM PDT by CreviceTool
For 26 years, Rush Limbaugh has insisted that conservative values, clearly and passionately articulated, will win every time. By conservative values Rush meant: God, country, family, community, liberty, individualism, personal responsibility, limited government, and free markets. Reagan was the model, and the promise: it had happened once, and could happen again.
Easier said than done.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotgas.net ...
Good article...what many of the conservative establishment are failing to see is that Trump IS articulating conservative values in a way that is appealing, understandable and desirable. The trust the author refers to is that Trump really truly believes what he’s saying. That’s why he needs no scripts. No teleprompters.
I be lovin on dat!
You too,mk!
| Nicely put. The article from HotGas truly is a spectacular piece. It really explains what we've discovered in the last few days. There are many great thoughts in the piece, but none more insightful than the one in its conclusion:
"...I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University." "The basis of political economy is non-interference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Do not legislate. Meddle, and you snap the sinews with your sumptuary laws. Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and property, and you need not give alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue, and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile, to the industrious, brave, and persevering." Quod est Veritas? I know the answer no more than Pilate did. But this, at least, I have observed in forty-five years: that there are men who search of it, whatever it is, wherever it may lie, patiently, honestly, with due humility, and that there are other men who battle endlessly to put it down, even though they don't know what it is. To the first class belong the scientists, the experimenters, the men of curiosity. To the second belong the politicians, bishops, professors, mullahs, tin-pot messiah, frauds and exploiters of all sorts — in brief, the men of authority. My inclination, I suspect, makes me lean heavily in favor of the former. I am, as the phrase is, prejudiced in their favor. They fall, now and then, into grevious errors, but in their fall there is still something creditable, something that takes away all shame. What fetches them is the common weakness of humanity, imperfectly made by a God whose humor has been greatly underestimated. They have, at least, the virtue of fairness. And that of courage. Unhorsed, they pick themselves up and try again. They do not call for the police. |
D***, that IS nice! Thanks onyx, and thanks LS for the link to it, I was perusing your posts looking for your delegate predictions.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3408875/posts?page=34#34
He meets with Jeb Bush and hires his people.
He demonizes Trump’s supporters as dopes, morons, and incipient Fascists.
Now, as icing on the cake, he is blaming the candidate for the fact that a bunch of communist and anarchist thugs managed to shut down a Trump rally in Chicago...
The 'Chicago' stuff was where I quit wanting Cruz as VP... dreadful excess...
| There's a positive side to putting your name on everything, too. It's like a Picasso or other artist signing his name to his art — as a mark of quality and trust. And judging by his $10 billion of success in a customer service business, the Trump name lives up to its advertising.
Not only is it a big plus in business to have a trusted brand, in politics it's valuable name recognition. How many people are voting for Trump simply because they recognize his brand as being in the public eye for decades? It's a McDonald's or a Johnson & Johnson. In my view, Trump's so-called "narcissism" is more a pride-in-ownership thing. And it's also insurance that he does a good job in office, because he doesn't want to hurt the brand he's spent 40 years building up. |
Quite possibly the stupidest Trumpanzee post ever. As recently as 2012, Drumpf claimed that Mitt Romney's plan to enforce existing immigration law to force illegals to leave was "mean-spirited" and "crazy," and another example of why "people hate Republicans."
His words. His position.
That puts him to the left of Mittens on the issue at that date, and well to the left of Limbaugh even after Limbaugh met with Schmuckie.
As for Rush's "green eyed envy" of Trump, I seriously doubt it. I'm not aware that any of Rush's businesses wound up in Chapter.
Your ideology-free candidate can claim any position he wants, and you and the other acolytes will redefine that as "conservatism." I have no doubt that when Drumpf tells you that sticking scissors in a baby's brain is really "compassionate conservatism" the Spirit of Populism will move you to redefine the meaning of pro life yet again.
Lincoln's famous question about how many legs a calf has if we call the tail a leg comes to mind. Only one problem: the meaning of conservatism hasn't changed, and you haven't achieved anything the least bit conservative simply by calling non-conservative things that animate a mob "conservative."
He was never a populist.
Reagan made his support for Barry Goldwater public sixteen years before he ran for President. Not sixteen months before, like the Drumpf.
I am shicked to see so many “conservatives” at Freerepublic support a progressive conman, who forgets his lines/lies, mocks the Constitution and conservatism, and supports eminent domain for private use, and Planned Parenthood. They support a conman who wants to build half a wall, and supports touch back amnesty as a negotiating start with Democrats. In otherwords, on illegal immigration, Trump is to the left of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson. And Trump has abused H1B, H2B Visas, outsourced jobs and been fined for use of illegal alien labor.
Which conservatism? George Washington and Alexander Hamilton’s conservatism? Oh, yeah, they are with TRUMP on tariffs.
You’re the one in serious need of reviewing what constitutes conservative.
Yes, and I hope they succeed. Trump is already whining that the idea of majority rule is a "random number." It's been in the GOP convention rules for a century and a half. He knew it when he jumped into the campaign, or he should have.
Ted Cruz: Donald Trump sees protesters as disloyal people who must be punished
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3409076/posts
‘It’s also reflected in his treatment of protesters, where anyone who’s a protester is disloyal and must be punished,’ Mr. Cruz told reporters ...
NO, SENATOR CRUZ. READ MICHELLE MALKIN’S ‘UNHINGED’. That’s EXACTLY what Trump, Hannity, and Rush are talking about.
Drumpf is completely indifferent to the Constitution. I doubt he would even know who Alexander Hamilton was if he weren't on money. Please ever mention a third-rate, business failure, non-entity in the same sentence as George Washington, ever, unless you want to meet up with me in Weehawken, New Jersey; such a comparison shows an appalling ignorance of history.
bkmk
Rage, rage hard. Losers rage very hard.
He's bi-winning.
Politics is like a box of chocolate. Sometimes you get the good ones.
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