Posted on 09/01/2015 5:06:30 PM PDT by Steelfish
Trump Has Succeeded in Convincing Conservatives to Discard their Principles Overnight by CHARLES C. W. COOKE. September 1, 2015.
Since he jumped self-confidently into the political limelight, Donald Trump has been quite the upside-down man. Customarily, primary seasons permit each party’s voters to indulge in a rational process of elimination: First, they discover which candidate most closely agrees with them on policy, and then they ask themselves whether that person is capable of representing their ideas in public. This time around, however, this process has been disastrously inverted, a solid portion of the Republican party’s balloters having decided first who they want to speak on their behalf, and then, as if t’were a mere afterthought, wondered what he might end up saying.
That their pick lacks any sort of conservative message at all does not seem to have mattered in the slightest. “We want that guy,” a host of voters have determined. “Whatever he believes, he says it so well.” If you have in the last few years become vexed and frustrated by the Republican base’s penchant for political purity, you should perhaps be breathing a little easier. A handful of months ago many of those who now make up Trump’s rank-and-file were ideological perfectionists who hated the GOP’s leadership, believed to their souls that the country was becoming a socialist hell-hole, and insisted vehemently that they had sat out the 2012 election because Mitt Romney was such a terrible squish. Today, by dint of some dark and unholy magic, these wannabe purists have hitched their wagons to Donald Trump, the greatest shape-shifter of them all. ......................... .......................................
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
LOL. Another hit piece.
Who has the butthurt complaint form? It needs sent to the GOPe ASAP.
Once in a while, it might help to take a full read of the article and see if the author is making any valid points.
Like National Review gives a whit about conservative principles.
But, he's right.
Life-long conservatives have decided to ignore all of Trump's liberal pronouncements. There's no denying it.
You’re right. Jethro Busch should be our guy.
Trump is a tool to hack the GOPee and the ‘rats. 4 yr couldnt hurt. We’ve learned that the GOPee are traitors and need to be removed by any means possible.
Ok let’s just continue electing phoney conservatives who lie to us to get elected and then join democrats in passing every possessive agenda piece possible while pretending to be against it with meaningless phoney votes..
Been there done that
This pompous backstabber of an author
takes words out of contest to compare Trump
to Warren. Obviously, this is from
Team Romney in its vicious attempt to
Palinize Mr. Trump for the Bishop.
They’ve been doing this for years, telling conservatives we have to take the high road, that we’ll always stand on principle while they stomp our guts out.
No, thank you. I wan a street fighter like Trump this time.
Trump Supporter = Hater of lying sack of excrement Congress critters!
They’re like railroad workers taking turns hammering a spike.
First the editor sacked Mark Steyn, then the same editor wrote a 5,000 word love note on the virtues of gay marriage, now they are on a round-the-clock mission to destroy Trump.
I think I’ll go read the Guardian for the occasional peek of conservatism.
Yeah, Jeb is heavy with conservative principles. /sarc
Actually, the GOP has taught us all that principles don’t matter by their example.
We will never move forward until we gut the current republican establishment..until that happens we go nowhere..and if takes a Trump to do it so be it..jmo
So what have the so-called conservatives who have been elected done to uphold conservative principles? Throw all the bums out.
First, I am not a Stormtrumper. But we don’t like Trump because he’s conservative, we like him because he pisses off all the right people.
I think we have the advantage of Jeb’s new youtube ad effectively slamming Trump’s liberalism, without providing any advantage to Jeb.
GO TED!
Cruz is my #1, Trump is putting things in motion that need to be in motion.
National Review had its “Civil Discussion on Abortion” front pager 25 years ago, with pro-aborts treated as if they had more moral legitimacy, than say, a Bircher.
More recently, the front page featured “The Conservative Case for ‘Gay Marriage’” [sic, and sick].
NR forfeited its position as gatekeeper of the conservative movement a LONG time ago. Its the Byte magazine of conservatism. Byte, at least, new when to close shop.
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