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. Buckleys 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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I’m talking riding elevators and walking through con men looking types with wives that have had plastic surgery and look ridiculous.
The RNC is not our friend.
They want to steal our money for themselves, as opposed to the DNC which wants to steal our money for themselves and skim a bit to FEDGOV workers and illegals.
Big wake up call, no wonder they hate Trump.
You used to be good, but it's all just big words and big sentences now and nothing underneath. One imagines your synonym generator n'er finds itself position'd far from thy feather and scroll.
But where did your heart go?
Interesting how Will is all for the GOP “securing its borders”, but has said next to nothing about the constant lies by the GOP about securing THIS COUNTRY’S borders.
His wife’s candidate is a governor who stood up to union thugs and won. He has support of Freepers in his state.
George Will, and other puffed-up elitists just like him, is the reason why I left the Republican Party.
Stick it in your ***, Will. You know, that thing you can’t find with both hands.
George Will’s wife is a high up part of the Scott Walker campaign.
He’s obviously not a Republican or he would commit to support the GOP nominee. Why should the other candidates commit to support him if he wins given that he’s not willing to commit to them? What is the purpose of a political party if the candidates aren’t willing to abide by the judgment of the members?
Donald Trump = The Last Great White Hope. We the people must adopt him. We the people must carry him (kicking and screaming, if need be) through the gates of the the DC Cartel Stronghold. He will be our battering ram. Then, sure, once the floodgates open, bring in all the Cruz’s, Carson’s, Jindal’s you want. Clean house. Who died and made Mitch McConnel God? What a pompous, arrogant, out of touch piece of sheet he is to casually brush off and back-burner defunding PP!
And how exactly has voting for the 'right' republican candidate helped us out?
When they win we got: Stephens, Souter, Kennedy, Roberts, O'Connell, and they gave us a homosexual culture, homosexual marriage, uncontrolled illegal immigration, and massively big government, most recently exemplified by ObamaCare.
When we got people the 'republicans' REALLY REALLY LIKED, we got GHWBush, Dole, McCain, and Romney. All of whom lost.
So, since I despise the establishment, there are 2 hail mary passes, I'm willing to make.
HOW IN THE WORLD could it be worse that what we've gotten following 'what good little republican boys and girls should do'?
1. Hail Mary one: Ted Cruz.
2. Hail Mary two: Donald Trump.
That's what I said in post#31. George Will is a pedant.
GMAFB Will, you are barely qualified.
Cruz or lose? I would rather have a half a loaf with Trump, and then see President Cruz in 4-8 years. Lose with Cruz and we rapidly descend into a Marxist state and the whole world goes into darkness, win with Trump, we have a chance. Think strategically here. Trump rids us of the death grip of the corrupt GOP-e, he closes our porous border, he brings our industrial base back, he brings our deficits under control — yes, he will fail to do many things we want done but he will do some very important things that need to be done.
It's like a choice between stage 5 pancreatic cancer and bone marrow cancer. I suppose one is ever so slightly less worse, although I'd choose the quicker death. If not Cruz or Trump (if he remains serious) PLUS a sea change as a result of the whole thing, I'll shrug my shoulders if Hillary wins and I'll shrug if an ePub wins.
Ah, no, only things that does matter is appointment of SCOTUS justices and other judges ... but still at least with the dem appointees, it's predictable. (As I guess you could say, at this point, it is the Republican appointees.)
(snicker)
Oh heck, the GOP is chock full of fake conservatives.
Will is one of them. LOL
The current GOPe makes being a republican an embarrassment.
The GOPe deserves a foe like Trump.
+1
I believe Bruce Jenner now has this capability...
This, from the same douchebag who bashed Ronald Reagan endlessly in 1979-1980. WTF does Will know about being a Republican?
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