Posted on 04/08/2016 3:49:18 PM PDT by conservativejoy
Mark just announced he will Never Vote for Trump and gave all the reasons why on today's radio program.
If you vote for Trump in the primary, Hillary will thank you very much.
She’s praying to run against him.
Yesterday, Levin posted a plea for people to come together for the nominee.
He was crucified, burned at the stake and left for dead.
All you do is attack conservatives, starting with Scott Walker when he first declared. You can look forever in your posts, and you never attack democrats, Obuma or Hillary.
You’re a paid Soros neo-Nazi troll.
Anyone, can you please look at this thing’s posts and give it a zot.
Pathetic.
Trump has exposed himself and thereby, lost the nomination.
Nothing good has come out about him in a month.
Maybe this week off will restore a modicum of sanity but I’m afraid he is too far gone.
Here are the 8 RINO rules:
1. Bait and Switch
This can also be referred to as “politics over principle” or “don’t fight now, fight later”. Members that have roamed the halls of Congress for multiple years have made a lot of campaign promises along the way, and they have undoubtedly broken a few of them. Some even admit a broken promise. Just look at Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) admitting he lied when asked whether he would honor his term limits commitment. When it comes to the big promises, you’d think politicians would stick to them.
This is where bait-and-switch comes into play: find a reason and tell the press in spin-o-riffic fashion why a vote for or against that promise would ultimately be a wasted vote. To them, party comes first, the next election, or the next fight. This is the main reason that the proverbial can continually gets kicked down the road. That really core thing, like not raising taxes – that will be fought for next time.
Right now is about keeping power, gaining goodwill for self-advancement, or supposedly gaining leverage, ironically the leverage doesn’t actually get used.
They moan and complain about conservative primary challenges, but two years away from their next election, they will spend millions bashing and hammering conservatives back home in an effort to soften the ground for their next race.
2. Show Me the Money
Votes win elections and money is used to get votes, therefore simple calculus tells a RINO that money is the most important thing ever. It just so happens that special interest has lots of money. So what if this vote will raise taxes? Don’t worry, the Establishment needs this vote to remain in power and appease the special interest. This rule usually coincides with adherence to #1 where special interest greases the skids for the passage of a 1000-page bill as long as there is something that tips the scales in their favor. Unfortunately, it is easier to lobby Congress for a handout than it is for special interests to innovate.
3. Fear
This one is simple – they instill fear in you the voter. You don’t want a Democrat in office – do you? Of course you don’t, so you must vote for the RINO. But don’t worry, all those things they do that seem morally repugnant, they are just pragmatic actions to remain in power. Again, you don’t want a Democrat in office – do you?
4. Governing
This word is politician-speak for capitulation. If they ever use this word, they are probably a RINO, because it means they are more concerned with keeping power, making friends, or raising money. So again, governing involves politics over principle, money, and then of course, fear.
5. Double Standards
RINOs love double standards. They moan and complain about conservative primary challenges, but two years away from their next election, they will spend millions bashing and hammering conservatives back home in an effort to soften the ground for their next race. They will taint every conservative candidate as an unwashed, unelectable, extremist wacko, but the minute their people are caught with baggage (Steve Scalise (R-LA) with David Duke and Thad Cochran (R-MS) with neo-confederate organizations) they circle the wagons. As long as you support amnesty and are a member of the governing elite in good standing you can do no wrong. Again, politics, money, and fear are major cornerstones of these members, and they work well when it comes to double standards. Plus, double standards help them explain away their sellout votes with ease.
RINOs love to announce their plans to surrender in advance.
6. Me Too
Originating in the 1930’s, a term that tells the listener the RINO in question agrees with Democrats on issues with only moderating differences. As in when a Democrat says, “I believe in federal funding and involvement in education” the RINO responds, “Me too. But there is another way to manage this better.” The political intent is to show that the RINO is socially acceptable and not an extremist, in other words, not a conservative. Their argument is that they are better managers of government than liberals, but ultimately both end up at the same place. The “me too” RINO just takes longer to arrive at the liberal destination and doesn’t stop the damage to our economy, society, or nation from a bloated all-powerful central government.
7. Pragmatic
Pragmatic in the world of both RINO’s and leftists is a buzz word meaning “not conservative.” The implication, sometimes stated outright, is that conservatism is “ideological” while “liberalism” is just plain reality. And therefore to deal with reality – to “get things done” – a RINO advocates being “pragmatic”. Which, in practice, means accepting the liberal world view on an issue. For example, we must have highways and bridges; therefore, the “pragmatic” thing to do is raise the gas tax. Thus, the “pragmatic” question is about “how much the federal gas tax should be raised – by five cents or ten cents?” The question can never be “should we place the states in charge of funding their own highways and abolish the federal gas tax?” thereby ending the federal addiction to this money pit for mass transit and payoffs to Big Labor.
8. Preemptive Surrender
RINOs love to announce their plans to surrender in advance. For example, after the 2014 midterms, liberal Republican Leadership in both the House and the Senate announced that no matter what Obama did or would do to bypass Congress, they wouldn’t use any must pass bill as a leverage point. For all practical purposes the Establishment surrendered before they even took the field. This was all part of “governing” and used the tried and true “bait and switch” to promise to fight later. And every time that the Establishment announces surrender and kicks the can down the road it only emboldens Obama and Democrats to hold firm and not negotiate.
Trump gets bombarded with lies and negative attacks from the media, the democrats and the republicans. Yet he is in the lead. It would appear that many of us aren’t fooled by the propaganda the media constantly hits us with.
Go President Trump.
Another retard exposes himself.
A few minutes ago, Levin said Trump needs to call of his sleazeballs like Roger Stone ...
I've never heard Levin said a bad word about Cruz' campaign manager ...
MEET TED CRUZ' CAMPAIGN MANAGER...
"Ted Cruz attacking Donald Trump for his “New York values” isn’t all that surprising, nor was it a spur of the moment retort.
The top two contenders for the Republican presidential nomination are competing aggressively for evangelicals and other socially conservative voters who are influential in the crucial Iowa caucuses. Cruz’s implicit charge is that the thrice-married, four-times bankrupted Trump lives his life just like all the other Manhattan liberals, and an obvious play to depress the reality television star’s support among heartland conservatives.
The swipe was straight out of the playbook of the Texas senator’s bulldog campaign manager, Missourian Jeff Roe*. That means — along with most moves Cruz makes — that it was probably deliberately calibrated and carefully planned. In 2008, Roe produced a television spot for a client, Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., that painted his Democratic challenger Kay Barnes as a social and fiscal liberal who was “pushing their San Francisco values.”"
http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/01/did-trump-walk-into-a-trap-on-ny-values-fight/
Days after the spot aired, Schweich took his own life.
Some of Schweich’s friends quickly concluded the ad played a role in the suicide and accused Roe of bullying the candidate. Former U.S. Sen. Jack Danforth** urged Republicans to walk away from Roe, a request he repeated last week.
“We should disassociate ourselves from anyone who conducts this sort of campaign,” he said in an email.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article16663127.htm
**CLAYTON, Mo. - Former U.S. Sen. Jack Danforth on Tuesday remembered Tom Schweich as a sensitive friend and extraordinary public servant — driven to suicide, he said, by political bullies and an anti-Semitic whisper campaign.
“Words do hurt. Words can kill,” Danforth said at a memorial service attended by many of the state’s leading political figures. “That has been proven right here in our home state.”
Schweich, 54, was recently re-elected as Missouri auditor and had been a Republican candidate for governor in 2016. He died Thursday and was laid to rest Tuesday.
He was known to be upset at recent campaign tactics used by his opponents.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article12328643.html
So far... not one substantive post from any trumper.
Just silly diatribes about Levin being bought and Cruz being the scum of the earth.
Grow up, trumpers. Post something meaningful.
Not everybody loves your little blond baby. You’re just gonna have to deal with it.
Can’t hear it often enough. That is exactly what he’s done.
It sure does.Those liars/lawyers got to stick together.
Dude, I’m the base. Walker has cut my property taxes in Wisconsin by close to 20% over the last five years. That’s been meaningful for all us regular folks and not just the fat cats.
Trump is a PATRIOT; Teddy is a CANADIAN, a LIAR, a FRAUD, and NOT a “CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVE” at all! If he was the latter, he would not be running in a presidential primary, for an elected office he is INELIGIBLE to hold.
I didn’t think I needed to attack Hillary or Obama on this site , although I have posted a lot of articles about her email and Benghazi troubles.
I have complimented Scott Walker for his putting country first in the Presidential race.
I’m a Conservative who has supported Cruz since his announcement for President, as anyone looking at my posting history can readily see.
The state controls property tax in Wisconsin? It’s a county matter here.
Silly boy. Trump has been given billions of dollars worth of free ads from the media.
With very few exceptions, they have not attacked him; rather they have downplayed his worst actions and failures.
The lead is temporary. He can’t get the majority.
And ... clue: nothing you say here will get him the majority.
He has turned their attacks into a positive. It infuriates them.
Why do you support the uniparty?
Audio clip of Levin’s remarks at the link. . .
http://therightscoop.com/breaking-mark-levin-just-announced-he-is-officially-nevertrump/
Levin says that a couple of years ago, the Senate Conservative Fund, a group set up by Jim DeMint, contacted publishers to buy 4 to 5 year old copies of Levin’s book “Liberty and Tyranny” to promote membership.
So then Roger Stone uses this to claim that Levin is bought and paid for by the establishment. Levin: “How so? I don’t know. But [Roger Stone says] I’m bought and paid for by the establishment, and that’s why I back Cruz.”
“Now I back Cruz, and I’m going to continue to back Cruz. But here’s what I’m gonna do: As a result of what the Trump supporters have attempted here, particularly Roger Stone, I am not voting for Donald Trump...period.”
“So I want to congratulate Roger Stone. And if anybody has a problem with that - Donald Trump, you can talk to Roger Stone. These bully, dirty tricks, Nixonian tactics...they’re only gonna backfire. They’re only gonna backfire, so count me as never Trump. There’s been too much of this folks...way too much of this.”
“At some point you’ve got to stand up to it. I do not like bullies and I never have.”
2017? It's not recognizable now! The Branch Trumpidians (how apt!) have turned FR into a bizzaro world, where Ted Cruz is "Lyin'" and the National Enquirer is holy writ. Where the champion of the anti-establishment, who battled the GOPe since being voted into congress, is "GOPe." Where Donald 'I probably identify more as Democrat' Trump is the only true blue (red?) conservative in the race, while Cruz (92% Club for Growth, 95% National Taxpayer's Union, 100% American Conservative Union ratings) is a RINO. Where Trump is pro right-wing pro-socialized medicine like Scotland, while Cruz engineered a government shutdown to defund Obamacare. Where, if you don't sue, it proves the lies are the truth and the truth are lies.
It must be some powerful Kool-Aid that deludes one into redefining "GOPe," "Conservative," and "RINO" and "truth."
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