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Donald Trump Is an Affront to Anyone Devoted to William F. Buckley’s Legacy
National Review ^ | August 12, 2015 | GEORGE WILL

Posted on 08/12/2015 5:53:27 PM PDT by Steelfish

Donald Trump, Counterfeit Republican By GEORGE WILL August 12, 2015

In every town large enough to have two traffic lights there is a bar at the back of which sits the local Donald Trump, nursing his fifth beer and innumerable delusions. Because the actual Donald Trump is wealthy, he can turn himself into an unprecedentedly and incorrigibly vulgar presidential candidate. It is his right to use his riches as he pleases. His squalid performance and its coarsening of civic life are costs of freedom that an open society must be prepared to pay.

When, however, Trump decided that his next acquisition would be not another casino but the Republican presidential nomination, he tactically and quickly underwent many conversions of convenience (concerning abortion, health care, funding Democrats, etc.). His makeover demonstrates that he is a counterfeit Republican and no conservative.

He is an affront to anyone devoted to the project William F. Buckley began six decades ago with the founding in 1955 of National Review — making conservatism intellectually respectable and politically palatable. Buckley’s legacy is being betrayed by invertebrate conservatives now saying that although Trump “goes too far,” he has “tapped into something,” and therefore

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TOPICS: Politics
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To: conservativejoy

We need a like button.

Is that specific enough for everyone?


161 posted on 08/12/2015 9:32:56 PM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Soros primarily plays with financial instruments. Trump manages real assets - apartment buildings, hotels, golf courses - as well as employees. Night and day.


162 posted on 08/12/2015 9:35:23 PM PDT by ELS
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To: Colonel_Flagg; Steelfish; MeshugeMikey

“George Will missed the Reagan Revolution not only in 1976 but as late as 1980. In the 1979 Republican Presidential Primary, his first choice was Howard Baker, his second choice was George H. W. Bush, and his third choice was Reagan. Not until days before the 1980 general election did he write on November 3, 1980 that Reagan deserved election.

For all his wonderful columns, the Republican electorate better understood the needs of the nation and the excellence of a potential Reagan presidency than Will. It is hard to believe he was so wrong about a matter of such great import, despite Reagan’s presence on the national scene for many years.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2727010/posts


163 posted on 08/12/2015 9:36:16 PM PDT by Pelham (Deo Vindice)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

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>> “I hate it when George Will is right and so many Freepers are wrong.” <<

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Amen!

Will gives me the creeps, but Trump dupes are far worse.


164 posted on 08/12/2015 9:36:22 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: DannyTN

That’s a great list.

I’m hoping Trump can stay popular for a long time. I don’t think he’ll be the eventual nominee ... hoping for Cruz ... but he is the elephant in the room right now, and a fun elephant he is.

A lot of the air will go out of the campaign if he gets out. You might call it hot air, but I call it a breath of fresh air.


165 posted on 08/12/2015 9:41:12 PM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: hoosiermama; xzins; MeshugeMikey; Steelfish; P-Marlowe; onyx; JustAmy; trisham; DJ MacWoW; ...

Thanks! Enjoyed that Trump/Laffer/Forbes video very much!

Also loved the clip you sent me of the 1988 Trump interview by Larry King. Looks like he was a Republican then and loved “republican principles.” Also noticed he was the same guy back then, only a little more mellow. LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usb0iE5WiZI


166 posted on 08/12/2015 9:42:57 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: hoosiermama

Thanks for that link.


167 posted on 08/12/2015 9:44:38 PM PDT by ELS
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To: Steelfish

George Will has been squishy to the X over the last twenty years. So now he is the self-appointed guy to vet Trump using William F. Buckley.

George, thanks for volunteering, but you outed yourself too far back to have any credibility now.


168 posted on 08/12/2015 9:45:52 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (If the fetus at one minute old is not alive, what is it?)
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To: DannyTN; hoosiermama; xzins; onyx

Great post!! Consider it stolen.


169 posted on 08/12/2015 9:46:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

Ask yourself how many times George Will has been right in recent years.

Then ask yourself how many of these Trump FReepers have been wrong over those same years.

Good luck with that, because sooner or later you’re going to need new prescription lenses.


170 posted on 08/12/2015 9:47:15 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (If the fetus at one minute old is not alive, what is it?)
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To: DoughtyOne

Never forget the Buckley Rule:

“The wisest choice would be the one who would win. No sense running Mona Lisa in a beauty contest. I’d be for the most right, viable candidate who could win. If you could convince me that Barry Goldwater could win, I’d vote for him.”


171 posted on 08/12/2015 9:48:16 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Walker.


172 posted on 08/12/2015 9:49:24 PM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: chris37
I agree on all points.

Trump connects with an audience.

173 posted on 08/12/2015 9:52:47 PM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: DannyTN

Thanks! Bookmarking :)


174 posted on 08/12/2015 9:54:53 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: erkelly

I will not vote for another pretend conservative like Trump. If a true conservative like Cruz cannot win the general election, all we get is a continuation of the slow rolling of the progressive tide with someone like Trump. The kind of thinking that will lead to the inevitable destruction of our nation is exactly that which is satisfied with just “some very important things”. We need to articulate a conservative vision, not be satisfied with mediocrity and half measures. From where I stand, only Cruz (and perhaps Carson) truly offer that vision. Trump is playing the chumps....he is not the conservative savior.


175 posted on 08/12/2015 9:56:12 PM PDT by The Unknown Republican
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To: Jim Robinson; RoosterRedux

In the same location. Today cavuto show Ben Carson interview
Aft the end Ben says that Trump is one of the kindest, mostcourteous. Generous men he knows. Not at all links his persona

In contrast my nephew has been telling me for weeks about the Billionaire Wrestling match. Stating. “He’s one of us!”

What a character! All for fun and charity of course !


176 posted on 08/12/2015 9:58:26 PM PDT by hoosiermama (psalm 150;3 Praise him with the sound of the TRUMPet!)
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To: Brilliant
Why should the other candidates commit to support him if he wins given that he’s not willing to commit to them?

(Waves hand wildly..."I know, I know!")

Because they won't support him and are already trying to backstab him?

177 posted on 08/12/2015 9:58:40 PM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: HandyDandy
He should start pacing himself for the long haul.

The man does not strike me as a slogger. I think he's not so much campaigning as just being The Donald. He seems to be having a good time.

178 posted on 08/12/2015 10:05:14 PM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Interesting history behind him.

I’m still a Cruz Gal.

Cruz or Lose! :)


179 posted on 08/12/2015 10:05:28 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris, Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!w)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I don’t agree. We need a lot more wheeling and dealing coming out of the White House.


180 posted on 08/12/2015 10:06:34 PM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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