Posted on 05/11/2016 2:35:52 PM PDT by detective
It's time to clear up misconceptions, deceptions and distortions by the #NeverTrump crowd.
Of course Trump is a conservative. Actually on the most important issues of the day, he's the most conservative GOP Presidential candidate since Reagan. Keep reading- I'll prove it to you.
I’m one of you. I’m a true-blue lifelong conservative patriot. I’ve been a “Cruz conservative” my whole life. Except in my day it was called “Reagan conservative.”
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
The first thing a conservative must conserve is the nation and the rule of law.
Most Republicans have steadfastly refused to do that.
The RNC/GOP has given us only amnesty candidates since the last amnesty.
They had intended to do the same this time.
Everyone who wants to see the illegal alien inundation stopped owes Trump their vote.
He did not have to do this.
This is why Townhall has savage him for almost a year
There are YouTube videos of old interviews that dipute that notion.
Trump is not only a Conservative, but is infinitely better as a candidate than Cruz.
Sure, Cruz is a Conservative wet dream with the Bible thumpin' sermons on the Constitution and pregnant pauses followed by canned applause lines.
But as a candidate in a general election, he was embarrassingly bad.
He just wasn't a good candidate.
The great thing about Trump is that he is not the proven liberal GOPe. Anything he does is likely to be more conservative than Ryan / Boner / McTurtle, almost by definition.
Trump will be great at utterly destroying Hillary. For that, he’s totally worth the price of admission.
I like everything I hear from Wayne Allyn Root, except, tragically, he’s pro-abortion.
It is up to us, American people, and the people Trump surrounds himself with, to hold him true to his words.
As of now, who is more conservative is yet to be determined. One thing for sure, he’s better than a Hillary in WH.
I find it interesting to look back and see the range of positions taken by previous Republican presidents who may nowadays be assumed to be conservative.
In the 1932 election, FDR’s VP running mate accused Herbert Hoover of being a big government socialist. And apparently that resonated with some voters (which considering how FDR governed must have indicated either cognitive dissonance or a general adherence to socialism across the board).
Eisenhower was certainly a good president who was similar in tone to Ronald Reagan, but some of his philosophy was clearly centrist and not conservative.
Calvin Coolidge had more sound conservative credentials but he was a social liberal on some fronts (probably ones that would attract mostly support from conservatives today but certainly did not back then).
Nixon had the reputation among the left of being an ultra-conservative for his earlier anti-communism, but there again he was quite happy to open up relations with Red China and was centrist in some of his views.
Personally, I think “conservative” is a label that has split into two camps since the downfall of the Soviet Union. One camp is nationalist and somewhat isolationist, Trump clearly has settled among that camp (and it’s well known that he wasn’t with that camp in fairly recent times but people do see the light sometimes). The other camp is more concerned with libertarian issues and may or may not be socially conservative, but in some cases may also be hawkish on foreign policy, in particular Israel. Trump appeals to some in that group too, but probably Ted Cruz was more their flavor.
The division in conservatism can be overcome. Conservatism can be thought of as the application of logic and truth to politics. We want to keep that which worked in the past and is likely to work in the future. But we are, or should not be, stupid enough to cling to ideas that aren’t working and won’t work in the future. That we leave to our progressive opponents (climate change and gender ambiguity being two obvious examples). This is why the conservative movement has moved on from its former opposition to women’s rights and earlier opposition to race equality, although we retain a healthy skepticism that legislation alone can create the equality of different cultural groups.
Donald Trump is more of a pragmatist than a conservative perhaps, but he resonates with the conservative desire to see special interest groups reined in, the constitution respected and America not pushed around or humiliated (from within especially) on the world stage.
Borders matter — but this should not be a right/left issue anyway, a border is a border, either you enforce it or you abandon it. Allowing it to become porous like Swiss cheese is just a slow-motion abandoning, destined to dissolve the nation into the mess that surrounds it.
i would have preferred a conservative next President but YES, it is gonna be FUN FUN FUN watching Donald Trump SHREAD the Wicked Witch
You need to put down your bong!
Globalism, corporatism, “free trade” pacts which dilute or destroy American Sovereignty are not conservatism regardless of what Bushies, Cruzers, and almost the entire talk show crowd e.g Hewitt et.al. say.
Let us never fall for that again.
Good article.
Patriots, please beware of the PC term “conservative.” Just because the media regards someone as conservative doesn’t mean that person knows anything about the federal government’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
With all due respect to the family and supporters of the late President Reagan for example, Reagan was a constitutionally low-information conservative imo, respecting Congress’s Section 8-limited powers only by accident imo.
In fact, noting that I will gladly vote for Trump for president, although constitutionally low-information Trump has been outlining plans to make America great again, like Reagan, Trumps plans support Congress’s limited powers only by accident imo.
On the other hand, I think that when Constitution-savvy patriots get Trump up to speed on the fed’s constitutionally limited powers after Trump wins the Oval Office, patriots are probably going to find that Trump is an excellent student.
Patriots must also keep in mind that since POTUS basically has constitutional authority only to sign or veto bills from Congress, that patriots must support Trump’s vision for America by giving him a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its Section 8-limited powers to support Trump’s vision.
Remember in November !
I knew Cruz would fail as I listened to his announcement of his candidacy. He talked at about one-sixth the speed of a normal human. Every line was an applause line, including “...with fifty dollars in his underwear.” I could see that Cruz was phony and repellent, with the totally unnatural speechifying, and the dentist’s-drill nasal voice.
It’s called “talking like a human being.”
Nixon had the reputation among the left of being an ultra-conservative for his earlier anti-communism, but there again he was quite happy to open up relations with Red China and was centrist in some of his views.
**************************************************************
When Nixon dreamed up and proposed the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), was he “centrist”?
Proposed by Nixon, signed into law by Ford and increased under every administration since, no exceptions.
ha! okay. that’s a whole lot better than Hillary, who talks like a dam*ed Liar
I’ve been saying something similar - since Rand Paul dropped out, Trump is the only one left in either major party with a demonstrable loyalty to the United States. The rest don’t seem to prefer this country over any other, and some even want to place us below everyone else.
Well, I did have a couple of spelling mistakes, but my statement is correct.
Tax returns report summaries of transactions not the transactions themselves. The larger the return the less likely it is to reveal anything.
Romney is a moron.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.