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The 4th anniversary of National Review's suicide
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| 01/25/2020
| Din Surber
Posted on 01/26/2020 2:45:57 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: qwertyz
I mean ... Victor Davis Hanson was pro-Trumpish.
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posted on
01/26/2020 5:03:03 PM PST
by
qwertyz
To: C19fan
That was an over reaction if ever there was one. And was Derbyshire correct?
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posted on
01/26/2020 5:20:40 PM PST
by
Stepan12
(potusm)
To: SeekAndFind
I wasn't for Pres. Trump in the primaries. A chance reading of aRoger Stone book about Hillary's war on women drew me into Trump's orbit after his nomination.
Conservative turncoat, Michael Fumento, voted for Hillary. And his constant attacks on Pres. Trump made for bad blood between us and he blocked me on Facebook.
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posted on
01/26/2020 5:23:50 PM PST
by
Stepan12
(potusm)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
01/26/2020 5:41:06 PM PST
by
nwrep
To: SeekAndFind
I started my subscription to NR in Nov of 80 right after Reagans election.
I cancelled it 2 years ago.
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posted on
01/26/2020 5:45:46 PM PST
by
Kozak
(DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Mark Levin and Rush endorsed Cruz and tried to get Hillary elected when Cruz lost the nomination to Trump.
Yes, indeed, and it's good to remind people of these facts at every opportunity. I was an unabashed Trumper from the day he came down the escalator. But during the runup to the election you couldn't find any Trump supporters in most conservative circles except the unwashed masses, the "deplorables." I even stopped reading FR because of the incessant caterwauling against Trump right here posted every day. Virtualy the only blogger that was reliably pro-Trump was Conservative Treehouse. It seemed like the whole damn world was against Trump. Even after the election, which was a modern day miracle, the GOPe and their conservative pecksniffs did everything they could to destroy the man, and all of us with him. I can't forget what so many blithering idiot conservatives like Levin, Limbaugh, and, yes, Sowell, did then. I find it hard to see them as thought leaders anymore. They're just hypocritical schmucks.
To: C19fan
NR lost me for the last time when they slimed Pat Buchanan back in 92. All but branded him a neo-Nazi.
Joe Sobran was another casualty of Buckleys terrible PC sword.
. . . and I have often wondered what happened to that Professor Greenlee who wrote great articles about the westward expansion. Did the AIM folks take aim at him, or did WFB and Bill Rusher?
To: SeekAndFind
Did they formally apologize? Did they say they made a mistake?
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posted on
01/26/2020 6:51:04 PM PST
by
poconopundit
(Joe Biden has long been the Senate's court jester. He's 24/7 malarkey and more corrupt than Hunter.)
To: qwertyz
VDH changed his mind but he did not feature in that issue.
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posted on
01/26/2020 6:59:48 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
To: DrPretorius
I know. It is funny, I never thought they were even a little bit correct about Trump.
ever.
there was no real logic to their arguments.
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posted on
01/26/2020 7:01:31 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
To: SeekAndFind
Given the betrayal that our side had experienced with W and others I was at that time wary of any pols. I was during the primaries neutral and favoured no one. Trump had somewhat of a history with the dims so again I was wary but was willing to support anyone capable of regaining the WH from the dims. As the primaries unfolded I got on board well before the convention. My deadline for any conservative to support Trump was the convention. After that if you were against him you were essentially supporting another Clinton presidency which to me are grounds for excommunication. If any of the repenters repented after say he took office they are less than useless. They may be useful in this reelection campaign but way too late by my reckoning.
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posted on
01/26/2020 7:23:31 PM PST
by
xp38
To: Chickensoup
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posted on
01/26/2020 7:28:45 PM PST
by
Jane Austen
(Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
To: SeekAndFind
“philosophically unmoored political opportunist who would trash the broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP in favor of a free-floating populism with strong-man overtones.”
so? anyone really see anything wrong with that?
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posted on
01/26/2020 7:39:29 PM PST
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: SeekAndFind
"My reaction to Against Trump was, "National Review Hoists White Flag, Defiantly Rows To Outcast Island." Ahoy! Drops Trou, Bends Over & Shouts to Anderson Cooper, "BRING IT, we're woke. now!"
To: SeekAndFind
Katie Pavlich and Andy McCarthy
seem to be with Team Trump now. Not sure about the others. Haven't heard a peep from Cal Thomas nor L. Brent Bozelll III in years.
Glenn Beck is still alive?
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posted on
01/26/2020 7:43:22 PM PST
by
nutmeg
To: TTFlyer
“I have heard rumors that NRO is one RINO mega-donor away from extinction.”
that’s a piece of excellent news if true!
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posted on
01/26/2020 7:43:36 PM PST
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: ClearCase_guy
“And plenty of the never Trumpers are still prepared to say, Yeah, but his tweets! Those are ... theyre ... well, theyre sort of ... rude. Ya know?”
THEY’RE NOT “PRESIDENTIAL”!
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posted on
01/26/2020 7:45:01 PM PST
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: SeekAndFind
interesting that Conrad Black and Victor Davis Hanson were never on the list to start with ...
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posted on
01/26/2020 7:45:50 PM PST
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: DrPretorius
“We had no general who could control the battlespace practically forever. Even Reagan couldnt do what Trump is doing. Trump is a phenomenon who is like George Washington or even Julius Ceasar. We will never see his like for a hundred years.”
absolute words of truth ...
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posted on
01/26/2020 7:48:22 PM PST
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: logician2u
Joe Sobran was another casualty of Buckley's terrible sword.
I never was a Buckley fan although I did enjoy his Firing Line program. I couldn't take him seriously after he dismissed Ayn Rand, who was a more profound thinker than Buckley was and a true advocate for liberty. And when he ostracized Joe Sobran, who was arguably the greatest American Catholic intellectual of that era, I knew Buckley was really just a pretender. His hamhanded castoff of his magazine to the likes of Lowry and Goldberg was par for the course with him by then.
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