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.
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I think by lowering the corporate tax rates, companies would build their plants here, and employ workers here.
We still have the most inventive and skilled work force.
If companies like Martin guitar can still make money and produce quality instruments why can’t anybody else?
Secondly, the waste in federal govt is deafening. All these worthless depts. We have no business being in the train business. All the postal workers should be rehired in the private sector.
EPA, Dept of Energy, Eduaction etc etc.
All those worthless Ad Council ads that are played on RUsh and Hannity and that hapless dope Glenn Beck, I bet they cost the taxpayers millions.
Planned parenthood, when they cater only to those who wish to destroy rather than live. Why not offer any young person pregnant a full scholarship for education or training and full medical care, if they carry their pregnancy to term and give it up for adoption? Why shouldn’t a young girl who has her baby be rewarded? Didn’t Liberty college with Jerry Falwell do something like that?
Author is young and inexperienced.
I posted something on the article, I hope he reads it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3318299/posts
Sell out in what way? Sounds like BS to me. What are specific examples please. It isn't necessary, in my mind, that I agree with 100% of the positions of anyone candidate. Some thing are however non starters. So give specific examples of Walker selling out.
RINOs????
The majority of the GOP IS RINOs...........
Look at Boehner and McConnell are considered their “leaders” of the GOP. That’s who the majority of House Republicans and Senate Republicans support. Conservatives cannot even get them removed from their leadership post.
The Republicans won big time in November of 2014. Although it was not to support the GOP, but to STOP the Obama agenda. Did they do that? NO!!!! They helped the Administration that only Reid and Pelosi fantasized about.
This is why Trump is popular. The people do not trust the rest of the GOP filed. The people gave the Republicans their trust in 2014 and look what happened. It was the best thing that happened to Obama.
What’s that old saying about doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result? Well that is what is at play.
This is why Trump is popular. He is not another GOP mold promising to lead us only to disappoint us once again. The best part of Trump is that he is not Politically Correct. He is not afraid to speak his mind. That is what people want in a leader. Not a censored lifetime politically Establishment politically correct coward.
Yes Trump is the wild card, but at this point I’ll take that risk. The way I see it... this country (the good old USA), the way we know it, with the hoards of immigrants pouring through the border like a Dam that is broken. We are being fundamentally changed and EVERYONE knows it. It is over unless we have a wild card. Trump appears to be that wild card.
As for Walker, Jeb, etc.... I just do not see them even so much as winning an election. I am sorry but outside of Wisconsin they are just fall guys like McCain and Romney. ‘
There are only 2 people I will vote for in the next election. As much as I like Cruz I don’t think he is electable UNLESS.... he runs as a VP under Trump. Trump and Cruz ticket will probably get in for the next 8 years. Turn things around, and then Walks into the White House. Much like Reagan, Bush.... However, this time instead of getting a liberal Bush... We get a conservative Cruz.
LOL....so, Trump is included in your “they’re all in it just for the money” statement?
“Patrick Hedger is the policy director of American Encore, a group dedicated to promoting free markets and free speech.”
The free speech item is sneaked in to advance “free markets”, which is another term for “free trade” which is what has led to the de-industrialization of the United States. That is this author’s perspective; that is all you need to know to assess his hit piece.
Wow. So many flaws.
A: that is off topic of my response, and not in context relevant. That's a fact.
B: Do you think I"m not aware of that? REALLY? I am, that's a fact.
C: AT this time last cycle, Newt was at 0%. He then led by big double digits in Iowa and nationally in December....tanked again....and then won SC by 14%. In Florida, he tanked again by abandoning his SC strategy. In the meantime, the lead switched between him, Bachmann, Cain, Perry, etc. In other words, polls in August of 2011 were totally and absolutely not relevant nor predictive of the final outcome. You can point to the scoreboard all you want...but remember, the game has not even started. We're still in preseason warm ups.
Them's the facts.
Problem is, what Patrick Hedger thinks is just wonderful, the vast majority of Americans don’t. Or we’d have had Hedger’s nirvana by now. Bummer, but that’s the facts of life.
Another GOPe establishment hit piece of bs, they are crapping their pants. President Donald Trump the only true conservative President since President Ronald Reagan.
>>So having started with Cruz and heard him speak, I’m slowly shifting to Trump because of the leadership issue.
Same here. America needs a leader right now, even more than it needs Conservative purity. Don’t get me wrong, we need Conservatism really bad, but we need it under a person who can say the tough things that need said.
“Your failures aren’t due to someone else’s bias.”
“Your job as a forklift driver in a factory moved to China. Did you ever even think of learning to be a forklift mechanic...or an electrician...or...?”
“College is not a place to expand your horizons and have fun. It is place to gain the knowledge that will propel you into the workforce so you can work your way to the top. If you have fun and expand your horizons while you are accomplishing the primary mission, then that’s just awesome.”
“Healthcare is a right. Getting paid to be a healthcare provider is a right. Keeping the money that you earn and spending it on your own healthcare is a right. All these rights have to work in unison.”
“It is not the job of courts to create law!”
“It is the job of Congress to make law.”
You are right about Walker. He is good VP material, but he is a light bulb next to an arc welder and an atomic bomb.
I haven’t been watching much Fox News lately, so how is Rove responding to the surge of The Donald in all the recent polls?
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First time I’ve seen his wife up close. My compliments :)
Yes, I said exactamumdo. :)
As I pointed out in my reply. I do not get a say for almost a year. Last cycle, I wanted to vote for Newt in the primary. He dropped out months before the Colorado primary.
The thinking, informed voter wants Cruz. The emotion driven voter wants Trump because he makes them feel good.
Trump is winning among Hispanic legal voters. He will pull in millions of Apprentice watching LIV types. Disaffected democrats will vote for him.
Until the voting starts just enjoy the show.
“Out of curiosity, what’s wrong with tariffs?”
Let me see now, if tariffs aid in stopping the de-industrialization of the United States, then I am for tariffs, or whatever it takes. Now, you can argue in theory that tariffs are an inherent evil, and strike a blow for righteousness by eliminating them, but if the outcome to sustain that level of righteousness is the de-industrialization of the United States, you have forced righteousness to prevail at the cost of the destruction of the country.
This country was founded on tariffs and protectionism. It was wildly successful.
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