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The ‘Never Trump’ Pouters
Breitbart ^ | May 8,2016 | David Horowitz

Posted on 05/08/2016 8:02:40 PM PDT by Hojczyk

In opposing the clear choice of the Republican primary electorate, the “Never Trump” crowd is simply displaying their contempt for the most politically active Republican voters.

This contempt was dramatically displayed during a CNN segment with Trump’s spokeswoman, Katrina Pierson, and Bill Kristol, the self-appointed guru of a Third Party movement whose only result can be to split the Republican ticket and provide Hillary with her best shot at the presidency.

Pierson urged Kristol to help unify the Party behind its presumptive nominee. Kristol grinned and answered her: “You want leaders to become followers.” Could there be a more arrogant response?

By what authority does Bill Kristol regard himself as a leader? Trump has the confidence of millions of highly committed and generally conservative Republican voters. That makes him a leader. Who does Bill Kristol lead except a coterie of inside-the-Beltway foreign policy interventionists, who supported the fiasco in Libya that opened the door to al-Qaeda and ISIS?

But what can it possibly mean? During the first Republican debate, in front of a television audience of 17 million people, Jeb Bush took a pledge saying he would support whoever eventually won the Republican primaries. But as soon as the winner was declared, Bush reneged on his promise. Is telling the truth a presidential value? Or do the anti-Trumpers make allowances for politicians they support, cutting them slack that permits them to lie or change their minds when it is convenient to do so?

The anti-Trump crowd seems most concerned about the personal insults that Trump used successfully to defeat his formidable and more experienced rivals. Perhaps they are forgetting the hundred million dollars worth of personal insults and attacks that were directed at Marco Rubio and Trump by Bush’s PAC, which the candidate himself never repudiated.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cruz; davidhorowitz; hillary; kristol; marklevin; nevertrump; trump
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To: Hojczyk
Kristol grinned and answered her: “You want leaders to become followers.”

Bill Kristol, Democrat.

He wants to hand the Supreme Court to his fellow Democrats.

41 posted on 05/08/2016 9:03:07 PM PDT by kiryandil (To the GOPee: "Giving the Democrats the Supreme Court means you ARE the Democrats.")
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To: yarddog

To temper your misgivings somewhat, I’m certain he will put together the greatest cabinet in American history.

Trump is like Reagan: Assemble the best people and let them do their jobs.

So many people think he’d be an Obama-style dictator.

That’s not the way people like Donald Trump roll. They delegate authority to their lieutenants and make sure things get done.


42 posted on 05/08/2016 9:06:45 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far.)
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To: nopardons
Geez, no - harsh much?

He said he'd vote for Trump.

I have the cudgels out for the #CleverNevers, but try a little honey for the Galvanized Trumpkins. :)

43 posted on 05/08/2016 9:08:03 PM PDT by kiryandil (To the GOPee: "Giving the Democrats the Supreme Court means you ARE the Democrats.")
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To: Jane Long

They are hypocrites, fine Trump is not a Conservative, and neither was Mitt Romney, Romney was a Conservative on Monday, a moderate on Tuesday, back to a Conservative on Wednesday, etc etc..yet these same people who post on twitter how they are Never Trump are petitioning to have Mitt Romney be the 3rd Party Candidate..so Trump not a Conservative but Mitt Romney, who CREATED Romneycare, who is pro abortion, who is pro amnesty, is their pick


44 posted on 05/08/2016 9:28:32 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: kiryandil

Maybe tomorrow, or in three weeks, or three months....we’ll see. ;^)


45 posted on 05/08/2016 9:29:03 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Hojczyk
Kristol grinned and answered her: “You want leaders to become followers.”

The sign of a good leader is the ability to recognize someone else is a better leader.

There are many outstanding individuals who have been ineffective as leaders for whatever reason. Yet we're inviting them to join us to work together to correct the course of America. You see, Bill, we have 15 million voters and counting on the Trump Train and there's just no space available for lookie-loos or negative nancies. It's simple, really: get on board, or get off the tracks.

46 posted on 05/08/2016 9:38:19 PM PDT by blueplum (March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?)
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To: DaltonNC

Brings to mind the words of one of our Founders: ...our lives our fortunes, our sacred honor.


47 posted on 05/08/2016 9:44:21 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: ifinnegan

A person sacrificing a fortune and putting himself at bodily risk is not someone to denigrate. Was Washington a messiah? No. But he was an amazing man who refused total power when it was open handedly offered.

Trump HAS power, and he has handled it wisely as he has matured in life.

Messiah? No.

Someone who really CAN “make America great again?” Very possibly.


48 posted on 05/08/2016 9:49:47 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
I have yet to find a Never Trump account willing to actually engage in a rational debate. They either resort to ad homs, e.g. racist, xenophobe, block, or refuse to engage altogether.
49 posted on 05/08/2016 9:54:30 PM PDT by OddLane
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To: Hojczyk
You're thinking of Daniel.

He works for Mark Levin.

50 posted on 05/08/2016 9:56:19 PM PDT by OddLane
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To: Lurkinanloomin

No, some just don’t like him for the same reason they don’t like Hillary- he is a habitual and unrepentant liar.


51 posted on 05/08/2016 10:04:35 PM PDT by piasa
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To: OddLane

Yep, we are racist because we want borders and Syrian ISIS refugees out of America..check out some of their tweets, and then compare it to a known liberals tweet, they look IDENTICAL


52 posted on 05/08/2016 10:06:55 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: ifinnegan; DaltonNC

>>>Spare us the Trump Messiah nonsense<<<

I read the Post you are referring to and I must have missed the word “Messiah”.


53 posted on 05/08/2016 10:19:28 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary Clinton has killed four more People than Three Mile Island.)
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To: Hojczyk

Trump does not have legitimate conservative credentials. But as a lifelong conservative, this year strict ideology doesn’t matter. Saving the country comes first, then we will do what we can to push him to the right.


54 posted on 05/08/2016 10:20:52 PM PDT by doug from upland
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Well, you are talking with Hillary supporters.
55 posted on 05/08/2016 10:29:42 PM PDT by OddLane
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To: Hojczyk
This is actually the best defense of Trump I've read so far.

I'm not surprised it was written by David Horowitz.

56 posted on 05/08/2016 10:31:38 PM PDT by OddLane
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To: RedWulf

They said what they were going to do, Now they are doing it. There should be no surprise.


57 posted on 05/08/2016 10:50:45 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors)
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To: nopardons

Without Midge and Irving, Bill Kristol doesn’t exist.


58 posted on 05/08/2016 11:01:18 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors)
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To: rockinqsranch

Nothing can be done to prepare for such an event.
If Shrillary thinks it will help her win, she will have him offed.
Nothing can be done to stop it.


59 posted on 05/08/2016 11:15:13 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Hojczyk
The ‘Never Trump’ Pouters

I thought it was spelled "poofters."
60 posted on 05/08/2016 11:16:49 PM PDT by Rastus (#NeverHillary)
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