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Donald Trump Is an Affront to Anyone Devoted to William F. Buckley’s Legacy
National Review ^ | August 12, 2015 | GEORGE WILL

Posted on 08/12/2015 5:53:27 PM PDT by Steelfish

Donald Trump, Counterfeit Republican By GEORGE WILL August 12, 2015

In every town large enough to have two traffic lights there is a bar at the back of which sits the local Donald Trump, nursing his fifth beer and innumerable delusions. Because the actual Donald Trump is wealthy, he can turn himself into an unprecedentedly and incorrigibly vulgar presidential candidate. It is his right to use his riches as he pleases. His squalid performance and its coarsening of civic life are costs of freedom that an open society must be prepared to pay.

When, however, Trump decided that his next acquisition would be not another casino but the Republican presidential nomination, he tactically and quickly underwent many conversions of convenience (concerning abortion, health care, funding Democrats, etc.). His makeover demonstrates that he is a counterfeit Republican and no conservative.

He is an affront to anyone devoted to the project William F. Buckley began six decades ago with the founding in 1955 of National Review — making conservatism intellectually respectable and politically palatable. Buckley’s legacy is being betrayed by invertebrate conservatives now saying that although Trump “goes too far,” he has “tapped into something,” and therefore

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TOPICS: Politics
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

He’s got the money.


121 posted on 08/12/2015 8:16:53 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Steelfish

George Will: “Donald Trump, Counterfeit Republican”. Does anyone see the irony here?? Coming from Mr. Counterfeit Republican?


122 posted on 08/12/2015 8:18:36 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: Jim Robinson

He’s awakened the sleeping giant, but I’m still a Cruz Gal! :)


123 posted on 08/12/2015 8:19:45 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris, Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!w)
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To: RedMDer

I saw it when he first said it. Defund abortion, but leave the women’s health issues alone. Think about it.

Ted Cruz is my guy too.

Go, Cruz, GO!!

Go, Trump, GO!!


124 posted on 08/12/2015 8:20:32 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Jim Robinson

I’ll look and send it


125 posted on 08/12/2015 8:21:04 PM PDT by hoosiermama (psalm 150;3 Praise him with the sound of the TRUMPet!)
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To: Jim Robinson

I agree Jim.

I honestly understand the anti-Trump line.

He is a lot better than some people think.


126 posted on 08/12/2015 8:23:37 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (If the fetus at one minute old is not alive, what is it?)
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To: Jim Robinson

Which allows him to say anything he wants. I will remain somewhat skeptical.


127 posted on 08/12/2015 8:23:59 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Please donate to FR)
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To: Steelfish

National Review is an affront to Buckley’s legacy. It’s nothing more than RINO garbage.


128 posted on 08/12/2015 8:26:04 PM PDT by vmivol00 (I won't be reconstructed.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
"Which allows him to say anything he wants."

I find that very refreshing.

129 posted on 08/12/2015 8:31:34 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Too much of a long-shot. Too risky to bank it all on. Trump has much broader appeal. But, understand me, I will push for Trump because he is a shadow horse for Cruz. Cruz is our ideal and the best shot of getting him more power in DC is via Trump.


130 posted on 08/12/2015 8:33:53 PM PDT by HandyDandy (Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Donald Trump is beginning to sound more and more like a real Republican everyday:

Secure the borders.
Get a handle on immigration.
Cut the regulations.
Cut the spending.
Cut the government.
Cut the taxes.
Make the government smarter.
Get a handle on the debt.
Strengthen the economy.
Bring capital and jobs back to America.
Strengthen our military.
Make America great again!
And make the world respect us again while we’re at it.

And on top of all that, Trump also suggests that we pay the families of fallen warriors $5 million apiece, out of the spoils of war we take from those we vanquish in wars we Fight To Win.

Funny thing is, all of this is in his 2011 book, "Time To Get Tough", so he's had these policy goals formulated for quite some time.

Freepers are usually faster on the uptake than most others. It's surprising to me how long it's taken for folks around here to begin finding these things out about Trump.

131 posted on 08/12/2015 8:34:47 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Fund the “good parts” of Planned Parenthood sure puts him into RINO category. He thinks governments job is to bailout banks and make crony deals with businesses. That is his real experience.

He might sound like it in a speech but he is no conservative. Andrew Breitbart saw right through his thin disguise.

I want to vote for somewhere who was still conservative 5 years ago. I don’t think that’s asking too much.


132 posted on 08/12/2015 8:34:55 PM PDT by GeronL (Cruz is for real, 100%)
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To: maddogtiger
George Will is Pajama Guy in menopause.

Leni

133 posted on 08/12/2015 8:35:34 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: HandyDandy

Okay


134 posted on 08/12/2015 8:36:27 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Jim Robinson

Here is the Forbes Interview from Cuvito today

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4417330664001/is-donald-trump-serious-about-tax-reform/?#sp=show-clips

Can’t get the Trump 1988 RNC convention interview you tube link to copy.


135 posted on 08/12/2015 8:39:48 PM PDT by hoosiermama (psalm 150;3 Praise him with the sound of the TRUMPet!)
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To: GeronL

Hint: There are none. PP is not a women’s health organization and that’s the point. It’s an abortion (murder) mill. It’s genocide. And now they’re being urged to install crematoriums (to replace their garbage disposals). This is the American Holocaust in every sense of the word.


136 posted on 08/12/2015 8:41:02 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Trump said if an illegal had an illegal job (2 crimes) and was productive he should be allowed to stay. So an American is out of a job there.

foolish.


137 posted on 08/12/2015 8:43:05 PM PDT by GeronL (Cruz is for real, 100%)
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To: Steelfish

138 posted on 08/12/2015 8:43:19 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: GeronL

Yup.

Why do illegals come to America? To work? Maybe some.

To live on welfare? In California that’s 80% of them and growing.

To profit from a life of drugs and crime? 40% of prison inmates are illegal aliens.

You figure it out.


139 posted on 08/12/2015 8:46:54 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Colonel_Flagg
I hate it when George Will is right and so many Freepers are wrong.

I would to but this is not that day..

140 posted on 08/12/2015 8:49:31 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Matthews and)
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