Thanks Extremely Extreme Extremist!
Key paragraphs:
The problem isn’t that the Republican voters aren’t conservative anymore. They simply don’t believe in the agents of conservatism they have entrusted with power.
They’re now finally rejecting them as weak and ineffective, not to mention obnoxious and increasingly nasty to their own voters.
Great job!
Good editorial.
The Daily Stormer was asking its readers to troll the site and to post comments.
“National Review means well, but they mean well”
I have to take issue with just this small part. No they don’t mean well at all. NRO and their chattering bobble heads are the gatekeepers for the GOP establishment and the political class in general. They wet their beaks in the same pond. Trump is a threat to their whole ineffective orderly way of keeping the status quo. They mean to take Trump down and Cruz along with him if possible and get Rubio or Jeb or somebody in the club to the nomination.
Fortunately they are doing a poor job of reading the electorate as you pointed out and its going to massively backfire on them.
I thought this HTML problem was taken care of.
“will they support the Democrat? (either by voting for her directly, or by backing a third party or not voting, which amount to objective support for the Democrat).”
This will make some FReeper heads explode.
“they mean well in the same way a retarded cousin means well”
LOL
(Tsk, tsk. you have committed ‘able-ism’, just as bad as racism.)
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This will get rid of the rogue characters. Since the problem seems unfixable.
I'm glad you (or the original poster) highlight this point.
That was my first reaction when I saw that NRO cover with '11 Conservatives Against Trump'.
Where was this passion against Obama in 2008 - when it was clear we had a Marxist, Christian hating, American hating, fraud running for President? It was nonexistent.
Where was this passion regarding this Administration's desertion of our people in Benghazi? Just a bump in the road. Maybe a few harrumphs by these Media pundits - but no full page magazine cover calling them out.
How about Hillary's malfeasance in handling secure documents? Anyone else would be in jail. Again, just some minor tisk-tisks from these same Conservative members of the Chattering class. They don't want to lose their invitations to the best Washington D.C. parties, so they keep it low when attacking the in-house enemies in Washington D.C.
But sure, grow a spine and go after Trump.
Their opinions register zip on my Geiger counter. Or, if anything, it pushes me more into Trump's corner.
Well reasoned and written. Many thing become clear to those who inform themselves on all sides of an issue and apply integrative thinking, rather than living in an echo chamber.
The opposite reaction to Obama would be a conservative. Trump is not a conservative. You are correct in saying that some (in my opinion, gullible) conservatives are projecting their hopes and dreams onto Trump, just as liberals did with Obama, but while the liberals got much of what they want, given Trump's record and obvious lack of a defining conservative ideology, conservatives will not.
We will not see a significantly smaller, less costly, and less intrusive government after a Trump Administration - Every indication, based on Trump's own words and record, is that it would be significantly worse. And that assumes that he can even rise above his polarizing negatives to be elected in the first place.
Exactly!
It’s worse than just the GOP leadership being process oriented and the Dem leadership being goal oriented: The GOP-leadership process has been doing nothing but helping the Dem-leadership goals.
What NRO has demonstrated is that there is a conservative establishment. They have never been in government power. But they thought they had power within the movement.
Remember that the Conservative establishmnet opposed Reagan and supported Phil Crane. Very similar to now.
Rush is right, nobody can herd us cats.
Im for Cruz despite the conservative establishments mistakes.
Close, but not quite. Let me first congratulate NR for finding 22 conservative (notice that isn't capitalized) writers who, having searched among themselves, finally found a pair of balls. Therein is a feat unparalleled by the writing they produced. Too little, and much too late. Had NR continued in all these years (one might truly argue decades) to be a font and light for true Conservatism, your opining might in fact hold great weight. As it is, at this late hour, waking from your literary (read drunken) stupor, asserting yourselves with the loud rigor of one caught sleeping will not be effective.
You will receive nothing more than *rolls eyes*... And rightly so.
The problem is this:
Liberalism has almost destroyed us - Not because it is winning on merit, but rather because it receives no opposition. That is your fault, directly.
Now, even here, many people don't even understand what Conservatism IS. Few here can recite it's principles. Few see it as a single coherent thing. That is your fault, directly.
Because you didn't stand in the breach, because the educators do not stand in the breach, and because politicians do not stand in the breach, to stand and FIGHT, we are left with the very reasonable conclusion that you approve, or even collude with those forcing liberalism, globalism and multiculturalism down our throats. You dirty, no-account sonsabitches.
So go back to your hallowed halls and contemplate. Blow smoke rings with your fine cigars, and fart in your fine leather chairs. And know that you have failed us all.
Trump is a sleazy crony capitalist who makes most of his money preying on pathetic, compulsive casino “gamblers.” He has the highest unfavorable rating of any candidate including Hillary’s. You are a stooge supporting this Trojan horse.
Good job, Ted Grant!