There is NOTHING to critique yet, but there you go. He's NOT chosen a Secretary of State, he's NOT agreed to throw in with Al Gore. So far his cabinet and staff choices have been nothing short of brilliant, as Mike Pence has pointed out time and again. Conservative, engaged, and perfect for the job. (Yep, that's what Pence keeps telling us, buckle up because so much needs to be done and will be done).
Yet because he actually spoke with Al Gore, because he spoke with Mitt Romney, you come out of the closet and spew your nonsense. You have zero idea what was said in those meetings. Zero.
You were the one who said he could never win when we argued about polls last winter/Spring, that Cruz was the only one who could beat Hillary because polls showed that to be true in February of 2016. You were wrong then, you're wrong now. You were ignorant then, you're ignorant now. Instead of bitching about nothing, why don't you actually do something to help forward the agenda, because what you are doing is just bitching about nothing. You've done that ever since Cruz was starting to get beaten like a red headed step child in the primaries and you can't stop going back to the vomit.
Just once, maybe you could help forward a real agenda, rather than be such a negative nabob. Just once, maybe you could marvel at how Trump has done such great things in such a short time. Just once, help him push something good for the country. Just once.
Please go back to Berlin and play with Angela and her refugees. You deserve each other. Along with Levin. What petulant, thin skinned phonies you all are.
So true. NB simply can't set aside his blatant disdain for President-elect Trump. There's little need to cite the examples, as they are self-evident to any sentient FReeper.
No matter what the topic is, it's invariably laced with overt denigration of the President-elect. The man hasn't even been inaugurated yet, but the concept of giving someone the benefit of the doubt remains alien to NB.
You see, in NB's mind, Ted Cruz wuz robbed! It should be Cruz who is sitting as President-elect, for only he possesses the ideological purity (except for those TPP and NBC annoyances) that is necessary to avoid the endless grousing and derogation which must be heaped on the "unclean" and unworthy President-elect.
NB simply can't disguise his dislike for Donald J. Trump, and that bias, for months now, has tainted every syllable he posts to this forum. As such, it utterly negates anything constructive that he might be able to contribute to an otherwise hopeful and positive ongoing conversation.
Instead, it's just endless distrust and hopelessly self-indulgent hand-wringing, ad nauseam and ad infinitum.
NB is living proof that erudition and eloquent analysis can only go so far when such a profound lack of goodwill is shown for a person that he absolutely despises with every fiber of his being.
In summary, nothing that Donald J. Trump ever does will be treated fairly and objectively by NB. That faculty does not lie within him.
Oh, he'll throw out some "boob bait for bubbas" praise every now and then in an attempt to obfuscate his true sentiments, but it's simply too transparent and inadequate to ever compensate for such pervasive hatred.
Only Saint Cruz could ever be worthy of NB's enthusiastic support. Nobody else— certainly not Donald J. Trump— could ever rise to the level of being treated fairly, or as anything more than a necessary evil.
It's really too bad, because once upon a time NB had a lot to contribute to the conservative conversation here. But every salient point he tries to make is irretrievably subsumed in lingering bitterness and knee-jerk contrarianism. I see no graciousness whatsoever, and such negative attitudes make it very difficult to persuade anyone, even when a point might be valid.
JMHO, of course...