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No Trump!
Right Wing News ^ | Jan. 26, 2016 | Cal Thomas

Posted on 01/26/2016 7:10:54 AM PST by Theo

When the publisher of National Review Magazine, Jack Fowler, called and asked me to write 300 words on why I oppose Donald Trump for president of the United States, my first thought was about the derision that was sure to come from Trump supporters.

I was not disappointed, or rather I am disappointed that no one who reacted negatively rebutted any of the arguments I, or the other contributors, made about why we think a President Trump would not pursue conservative goals.

Sounding like Trump, I was called a "loser" and someone for whom one writer said he had "lost all respect." Sure, there were some who called me "brilliant" (I'm filing those away), but the name-callers resembled their political master. Trump also refused to address our arguments. Instead, he mislabeled the magazine a "dying newspaper" and said it had lost circulation and no one reads it. Many are reading this issue.

One friend said he is convinced that Trump is "teachable and we can move him in the right direction." On June 14, Trump will be 70 years old. By then, most people have long been settled in their worldview. Trump likes to cite Ronald Reagan, who was a Roosevelt Democrat before he famously said he didn't leave the Democratic Party, the party left him. But Reagan spent many years honing his conservative principles in speeches, articles, and radio commentaries. He did not have, as some nominees to high office experience, a "confirmation conversion."

Quoting myself would be redundant (read us all at National Review.com), so here is the key paragraph from the lead editorial:

"Trump's politics are those of an averagely well-informed businessman: Washington is full of problems; I am a problem-solver; let me at them. But if you have no familiarity with the relevant details and the levers of power, and no clear principles to guide you, you will, like most tenderfeet, get rolled. Trump has shown no interest in limiting government, in reforming entitlements, or in the Constitution. He floats the idea of massive new taxes on imported goods and threatens to retaliate against companies that do too much manufacturing overseas for his taste. His obsession is with 'winning,' regardless of the means -- a spirit that is anathema to the ordered liberty that conservatives hold dear and that depends for its preservation on limits on government power."

In the February 1 issue of The Weekly Standard, Stephen F. Hayes writes: "The Republican frontrunner is a longtime liberal whose worldview might best be described as an amalgam of pop-culture progressivism and vulgar nationalism. His campaign rallies are orgies of self-absorption, dominated by juvenile insults of those who criticize him and endless boasting about his poll numbers. He's a narcissist and a huckster, an opportunist who not only failed to join conservatives in the big fights about the size and scope of government over the past several decades but, to the extent he was even aware of such battles, was often funding the other side, with a long list of contributions to the liberals most responsible for the dire state of affairs in the country, including likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton."

What is the counter argument to these substantive opinions? Anger against the "Washington establishment" is not one. Those who worship Trump have an obligation to say why he is worthy of their faith. Given his liberal background and poor explanations of why he now believes differently, how do his supporters know he will govern conservatively should he win the White House? He once said his sister, who is pro-abortion, would be an excellent nominee to the Supreme Court. His story of how he supposedly became a pro-life convert lacks credibility.

Electing a president, especially in a dangerous world, is important work. Anger and emotion should not govern the choice. Considered judgment should. Trump appeals to the former, but not the latter.


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To: Finny

What if Cruz admits he’s a naturalized citizen?


41 posted on 01/26/2016 7:34:10 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: Gaffer

Sad to see Thomas Sowell and William Kristol on there but I’ve got to say, most of those I’ve never heard of.


42 posted on 01/26/2016 7:35:02 AM PST by ozarkgirl
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To: Wizdum

“I hope I am wrong about that, but something just doesn’t add up when your political ‘awakening’ happened last year.”

Setting aside social issues, Trump is saying now what he has said for the last thirty years. Google the Oprah Winfrey of Trump, 1988.


43 posted on 01/26/2016 7:35:48 AM PST by odawg
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To: Theo

From the same guy who wrote this BS!

http://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2016/01/05/roots-and-identity-n2099859


44 posted on 01/26/2016 7:36:31 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Theo

Thanks!

Please keep finding trash like this and posting it!


45 posted on 01/26/2016 7:36:43 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Trump has not been allowed by many posters on this site to change his views from 20 - 30 years ago.)
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To: Theo

Hey Cal, unlike anyone in the NR or GOPe, he fights. Grow a little thicker skin if you are going to write a hit piece.

Pray America wakes


46 posted on 01/26/2016 7:37:05 AM PST by bray (Trump/Palin 2016)
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To: Theo
So here is my question back to Cal Thomas and the other 21 authors who came out "against Trump" ....

If Trump (or Cruz) wins the nomination, will you be voting for Hillary/Bernie, or will you withhold your vote come November?

If you withhold your vote, exactly how does that stop/delay/slow the decline of this country into outright Progressive Leftist Socialism?

Think carefully, Cal.

47 posted on 01/26/2016 7:37:18 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Theo
What is the counter argument to these substantive opinions?

Aholes and elbows, everybody has them.

Electing a president, especially in a dangerous world, is important work. Anger and emotion should not govern the choice. Considered judgment should.

Math is hard.

The PTB have done such a wonderful job in helping to select what we have been stuck with for the last 30 years. Seems their help and judgment was somewhat lacking.NO?

Witness whom they would rather have us vote for, the likes of perhaps Rubio, or Jeb. Or perhaps I missed where any one of these clowns said they would prefer Mr. Cruz

This is the good judgment to which they refer?

Screw em, the whole bunch.

Time to step aside and let the people decide.

We own it, win or lose.

48 posted on 01/26/2016 7:37:56 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
And Jethro Bush or Mario Rubio would "pursue conservative goals?"

Uh, you're conveniently leaving someone out.

49 posted on 01/26/2016 7:39:22 AM PST by Charles Henrickson (Social and constitutional conservative)
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To: Charles Henrickson

So you’re saying they want Cruz? Seriously?


50 posted on 01/26/2016 7:40:29 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The goal of socialism is communism." -- Vladimir Lenin)
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To: traderrob6

The man regurgitates the same old bile.

NR is sending the troops out to play Baghdad Bob, there’s a reason why.


51 posted on 01/26/2016 7:41:31 AM PST by moehoward
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To: smoothsailing

What if you admit that you stopped beating your wife?


52 posted on 01/26/2016 7:41:57 AM PST by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: Theo
Perhaps it's time for a re-reading of that remarkable 1776 document which formed the philosophical foundation of our liberty and an outline of the grievances which prompted it.

Of the Declaration, Lincoln wrote:

"All honor to Jefferson--to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of re-appearing tyranny and oppression.- Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Messrs Henry L. Pierce & others. Source: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler.

Source for this reproduction of the letter here.

The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription


IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.


The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:

Column 1
Georgia:
   Button Gwinnett
   Lyman Hall
   George Walton

Column 2
North Carolina:
   William Hooper
   Joseph Hewes
   John Penn
South Carolina:
   Edward Rutledge
   Thomas Heyward, Jr.
   Thomas Lynch, Jr.
   Arthur Middleton

Column 3
Massachusetts:
John Hancock
Maryland:
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton

Column 4
Pennsylvania:
   Robert Morris
   Benjamin Rush
   Benjamin Franklin
   John Morton
   George Clymer
   James Smith
   George Taylor
   James Wilson
   George Ross
Delaware:
   Caesar Rodney
   George Read
   Thomas McKean

Column 5
New York:
   William Floyd
   Philip Livingston
   Francis Lewis
   Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
   Richard Stockton
   John Witherspoon
   Francis Hopkinson
   John Hart
   Abraham Clark

Column 6
New Hampshire:
   Josiah Bartlett
   William Whipple
Massachusetts:
   Samuel Adams
   John Adams
   Robert Treat Paine
   Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
   Stephen Hopkins
   William Ellery
Connecticut:
   Roger Sherman
   Samuel Huntington
   William Williams
   Oliver Wolcott
New Hampshire:
   Matthew Thornton


53 posted on 01/26/2016 7:42:27 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: Theo

Cal Thomas rushed to Bob Beckel’s side when he going down for the third time. Then Cal and Hannity found work for him at Fox News. How has that worked out?


54 posted on 01/26/2016 7:43:10 AM PST by CreviceTool (A Good Samaritan with a handgun saved my life...)
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To: Theo
MEDIA We have tried voting for our conservative beliefs. ONLY to be sold down the river time after time after time. Now you want us to believe your lying words again? I have had it with ALL POLITICIANS.

I am voting for the businessman hoping he can save the destruction our REPUBLICAN Congress has allowed.

55 posted on 01/26/2016 7:43:37 AM PST by IC Ken
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To: ozarkgirl
You think Cruz could win in the General? He can't even win in the primaries. . . .

Last I checked, nobody has won any primaries yet.

56 posted on 01/26/2016 7:43:55 AM PST by Charles Henrickson (Social and constitutional conservative)
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To: MNJohnnie

and thank you for proving my point. go back and read the comments. see how many simply dismiss the article, with no counter points given or who dismiss the author...then get back to me about your superiority.


57 posted on 01/26/2016 7:45:53 AM PST by Axeslinger (Trump: the Kaitlyn Jenner of conservatism. One's not a woman, one's not a conservative.)
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To: capt. norm
They are now finding out tha they can not make things happen....they are only allowed to watch, and that was their original job anyway.

Excellent reality.

The internet, FR and other sites have restored the balance in America. The GOPe and DEMe and their mediots and DC Pundits are becoming more irelevent each day!

58 posted on 01/26/2016 7:46:08 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Trump has not been allowed by many posters on this site to change his views from 20 - 30 years ago.)
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To: Charles Henrickson

Well, yes, that is true. (hangs head)

But according to polls, Trump is way ahead nationally.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/


59 posted on 01/26/2016 7:46:41 AM PST by ozarkgirl
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To: traderrob6

What he is pointing out is the establishment will fight him tooth and nail if he gets elected. Depending on his level of aggravation with these blood ticks who will join the dems to fight him will be his measure of his presidency.


60 posted on 01/26/2016 7:47:06 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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