Posted on 02/14/2016 9:47:13 PM PST by OneVike
I have been a member of FreeRepublic since February 1998, and in all my years I have ever seen so many Freepers support, and defend such a leftist candidate as Donald Trump. In the old days, any candidate that spouted the rhetoric coming out of his mouth would have been received with unanimous hatred from Freepers.
Mitt Romney was met with scorn when he claimed to have changed and was more conservative than his record showed. However, The Donald says the same thing and he is allowed to wear his liberal record as badge of honor, because he has been born again. Never mind that his fruit smells like Skubala. Any Republican candidate in the past who supported partial birth abortion was considered dead on arrival with 99.9% of Freepers. Yet a vast number of Freepers today look at Trump's defense of PP, and attack the candidate who dares to bring it up at a debate.
Thinking I have stumbled in some black hole of Bizzaro World, I decided to spend most the night, after the debate yesterday, researching past posts and comments of many Freepers who support Trump. I must admit that I wasn't too shocked to see that not all, but the vast majority, of his supporters have joined FR within the last 8 years. However I pretty much only searched the opinions of his most ardent supporters.
Interestingly enough, the ones I researched, all demanded that both Houses of Congress go after Planned Parenthood for selling baby parts. Many of them even demanded that the House use their power of the purse to defund PP. Yet these very same individuals defend, and make excuse for Trump's defense of said abortion factory, or at least claim it's bothersome but will still support him. These same individuals, however, were demanding McConnell resign for failing to pass legislation in the senate defunding PP. I did similar searches on their opinions of various other topics that Trump defends which would normally be cause of revulsion from these supporters had it been any other politician.
Well, I must admit that I am rather stunned by the way they have so easily changed their stances.
Who would have known that those who accused Jimmy Carter of never meeting a dictator and communist he didn't like, would now tout that his endorsement of Trump is not Trumps problem, and some even claim it will help him with Democrat voters in November. So we are now to welcome a politician that will get votes from leftists?
I thought the idea was to win them over to conservatism, not to abandon our beliefs just to get them to vote for our guy. So when will Freepers decide we need to change our stances on topics like "Black Lives Matter" to get more blacks to vote for our guy, or maybe we can find a good Muslim candidate who has made billions and talks a good game. Hey, so what if he may support Sharia law, just think of all those Muslim votes we can get from refugees Obama shipped in and we could actually own Dearborn Michigan. There has got to be some great female politicians who support PP that we could get behind, After all, we do have a problem with the female vote, right?
Yea, I'm just an old timer with old time values from the days when The Donald was still giving money to the Clintons and laughing at Republicans for making such a big deal over BJs in the Oval Office. Yup, just a geezer who remembers the wall of separation set up by Jamie Gorelick to keep Clinton from being prosecuted over Witewater which led to the attack on 9/11.
I guess I'm a conspiracy believer who thinks 9/11 was Clinton's fault, not GW's, and that the Weapons of Mass Destruction the NY Times finally admitted existed were originally sold to the public by the Clinton's to help get the Democrats on board for the war on Iraq.
Those were the good old days when we used to rip apart fake politicians for trying too hard to fit into our club, instead of ripping the messengers for noticing a fake when we see one.
Yea, that was before FreeRepublic jumped the Shark.
Nonsense. Rudy was an open social liberal.
Boiled down, you’ve compromised your Conservative ideals.
Good to know.
[Facepalm.] What is your goal here? To win the Gold Trophy for Best Conservative Ideals as the Titanic sinks?
I’m hoping to be able to use my conservative ideals again in a free republic, not die with them.
It’s like he says everything but answer the question. It’s so obvious he doesn’t want facts that he can’t refute put in front of him so he rants and gets rude.
I’m telling you the truth.
Detractors think that video is the worst thing they’ve ever seen. Supporters see it as him really being able to go fix what’s wrong with this country and make deals for US, not THEM.
Flame away if you like, I don’t care.
This cr@p is straight out of Alinsky.
If I remember correctly Tancredo is still talking about the insanity of not enforcing our border and immigration laws.
I wish he was still in DC but I think he is trying to help build the Constitution party in Colorado.
He was complimenting his sister, who would bee 80 if elected.
He has used ONLY conservative justices as examples of his ideal for SCOTUS.
Arrogance. People just can’t admit they were wrong about Donald Trump being a credible candidate worthy of support.
Trump has strong liberal creds. I think you are as misinformed as Rubio. Ted can swim. He’s just not an arrogant blowhard about it.
Remember how it was soundly bashed when Hutch was flogging it around?
Same old bad policy, just a slicker salesman.
Trump uses his wild actions and comments to quickly change the focus of the discussion.
Bad analogy but it is all can think of tonight. Cruz at this time is unable to attempt to save the country. Even though he is a true blue conservative. Trump has a chance, no one can be sure, of being able to turn this around; he’s made all the right enemies. But he does not have strong conservative creds.
This is my view of Cruz. An honorable man, but does not have the mojo to win in the General. He does not inspire. His ideas inspire, but he is not a natural leader. He does not have that aura. (Although he tries to wear a halo—sorry I couldn’t resist)
Trump is playing the battering ram. He’s curt, abrupt and has a mound of shortcomings-of all this I will admit. But he is the only non-GOPe candidate that has a sliver of a chance to get through the fraud that will be the RNC convention. Can you imagine, it will be 1968 double. Both on the R and D side. Cruz will have no chance in hades to get through what is planned at the convention. He won’t even have enough delegates to get the first ballot. But suppose that he did...the RNC plans to change the rules so the the delegates are not bound on the first ballot and plan to do a secret ballot to insure the outcome. Rule 37 I understand. Cruz will sulk and go back to the senate. Trump on the other hand will be like an enraged bull and probably rip the whole establishment apart and then launch a nationwide write-in campaign.
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I agree with you 100 percent OneVike, FR did used to be a conservative forum, but now if you say anything bad about Trump, the Trumpetts are coming after your children! They can not see what a chameleon he is! Trump has managed to take advantage of the anger in this country after 7 years of Obama! They will just dismiss the flip flops of Trump over the years, so they just take another drink of the kool aid and keep following him!
The Constitutional requirement is 'natural born'... NOT naturalized citizen... Cruz has yet to show any records other than a 'natural born Canadian citizen'. NO act of Congress or a court ruling can give or take US natural born citizenship. Only two US citizen parents giving birth to a child on US soil. Cruz was born in Canada, and his father only became a US citizen in 2005.
I am not the ignorant one here on the Constitution... and Harvard Law Schooled lawyer Cruz knows exactly what is required... He just thinks he is entitled to have what his parents did not give him.
Some people are just born to be deceived....
Baa haa. Not so funny, when you're on the receiving end?
Let's see a pic of your kids, so we can compare them to Don Jr and Ivanka.
Let's see your CV, so we can get a sense of proportion vis a vis Trump's career.
And most importantly, let us know what public offices you've run for, which campaigns you've donated to and how much, and what you've done in defense of American values.
Then we'll know how qualified you are, to smear Donald Trump.
My goal is to be true to myself and my principles.
FR used to be populated with principled people. Now, less so.
He seems to pretty tolerant unless someone is a relentless pain in the ass.
“Don’t be so sure of yourself, buster.”
Oh I don’t know, Undecided 2012 seems to have it nailed down pretty hard!
No, a very few folk. And we all know who they are.
I disagree.
We can still do that, can’t we?
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