Posted on 08/02/2015 5:52:26 AM PDT by parksstp
This has gone on long enough. All that anyone can talk about right now is how Republican voters are itching for someone to “stand and fight,” “speak his mind,” and “tell it like it is.” All right then, here goes.
Donald Trump is not a conservative, and it’s beyond time every Republican knows it. This MSNBC caricature of the GOP incarnate is getting heaps of praise from frustrated conservative base voters and unfortunately too much airtime from conservative political pundits because he evidently “tells it like it is.”
Except that he doesn’t.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
Stand in the mirror and repeat this over and over again until it makes sense:
DONALD TRUMP IS NOT A CONSERVATIVE!
I'm done voting for RINOs and fake conservatives.
Trumpty Dumpty.
Ha! Reminds me of that commercial “What’s in your wallet?”
I am totally for Cruz. But right now, I’d rather hear for calls to have Jeb Bush, Lindsey Graham, Kasich, Huckleberry and the others drop out before I’d call for Trump to go away.
He is performing a valuable service in my opinion. Especially if it forces Jeb to go out and speak some more Mexican.
When I hear Cruz say it’s time for Donald Trump to drop out then I might consider it. Until then, now way in hell.
Florida votes in 227 days.
You have plenty of time to make up your mind.
Between now and then, candidates are going to speak, answer questions, and engage in fake debates, so, relax.
>>People that actually vote for this liberal loser when there are clearly viable conservative alternatives (i.e. CRUZ) on the ballot are no better than the GOPe trying to pass some RINO loser off as a conservative.
Cruz needs to step up his game. He and Trump occupy the same space in this primary and Trump is just outshining him.
I like Ted Cruz, but he's not going to win, and remains in the lower echelon of the first debate cutoff. I am highly suspicious of Walker's ability to "ramp up" his ideas to a national vision. To me he's stuck in "small ball." Likewise, Cruz, for whatever reason, has been unable to gin up the enthusiasm of ordinary people. I was in PHX when Trump, with no prior ads or media exposure except one story in the paper, took a meeting that supposedly was only going to have 1500 and turned it into an event with 20,000. He has the ability to speak big picture issues to the people.
So, you can have your purism. Right now, I'll vote for Trump and if he's not in, Cruz, maybe Walker, and after that, I'll sit home.
“I’m done voting for RINOs and fake conservatives.”
Well then you just eliminated about 95% of the republican field. In MY opinion, Trump is the only one that will stand up to the Washington establishment because no one is in his pocket that can tell him what to do. Will there be things I disagree with? Yeah, probably ... but his track record of success speaks volumes to what we need as a national CEO.
We've seen in the past, good conservative people get nowhere and have no traction because they were so easily silenced or covered over
IMO ... We can't afford another confusing and frustrating battle over who is conservative and who is not
We need ... again, IMO ... someone who IS loud and IS a fighter and for whatever reason (and the over abundnce of money is not a bad element to be in posession) ... CAN inspire Americans to become involved and really believe in themselves again
I'd rather make fun of a head of hair than wookies and jug ears and faggots
Trump is the strategy.
Cruz is the candidate.
I don’t care if trump is a conservative. I’ve been betrayed so much by the GOPe that I’d vote for him just out of spite v
“Between now and then, candidates are going to speak, answer questions, and engage in fake debates, so, relax.”.....
When its over, please come back and tell me what Cruz said that the media reported on. How can someone make up their mind when the media doesn’t tell us what these candidate are saying, only what Trump and Bush say. I’ve had it with the rinos and the media.
I listened to 12 candidates speak about immmigration in the past week in media interviews. Only Trump consistently called illegal aliens “illegals”, over and over again. Not “illegal immigrants”, or “illegal aliens”, but “illegals” the most hated version of that term, which Obama himself said is disparaging. Trump gets it, and will win the White vote that the GOPe is too scared to reach. Ted Cruz is the ONLY other conservative in this race, but the GOPe knows how to marginalize him. They cannot marginalize Trump. That’s why they fear him. that’s why there is no end to insipid articles like this. They know Trump will destroy the GOPe consultant/donor corruption that has destroyed the party.
Donald Trump is not a conservative? Who knew?
Didn’t know that. Hey, and thanks to “The Federalist” for letting me know.
Who writes these articles anyways? Does he think conservatives are stupid? We know exactly who/what Donald Trump is. It’s not exactly a second rest. Most of his life has been spent in the media headlines. That’s not what his current popularity in the polls is about.
Agreed.
So having started with Cruz and heard him speak, I'm slowly shifting to Trump because of the leadership issue. Walker is a distant, distant third, because he is "small ball" in a different way. He still hasn't nationalized his (successful) state arguments. He hasn't told the public why unions must be crushed, how they are a Dem slush fund. So either he doesn't understand it, or he doesn't want to be unpopular nationally.
You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. There is one other candidate who has actually done this IN Washington and before that in his own state...for far longer than Trump has been conservative. So, your opinion may include the word only, but history demonstrates at least that part of the opinion is just wrong. And that's FACT.
We've seen in the past, good conservative people get nowhere and have no traction because they were so easily silenced or covered over
IMO ... We can't afford another confusing and frustrating battle over who is conservative and who is not
We need ... again, IMO ... someone who IS loud and IS a fighter and for whatever reason (and the over abundnce of money is not a bad element to be in posession) ... CAN inspire Americans to become involved and really believe in themselves again
I'd rather make fun of a head of hair than wookies and jug ears and faggots
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