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Erick Erickson's Values Argument Against Donald Trump
Politics as Unusual ^ | 3-5-2016 | Otto Lampis

Posted on 03/05/2016 10:17:54 AM PST by Brookhaven

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To: Brookhaven

Hold your nose and vote for Trump, you silly little man!


41 posted on 03/05/2016 11:28:22 AM PST by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States)
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To: Brookhaven

http://www.boblonsberry.com/writings.cfm?go=4

GOP BOSSES SPIT IN THE VOTERS’ FACES

You’re not fighting Trump.
You’re fighting the people who are voting for him.

The anti-Trump effort being waged by the Republican Party is essentially a fight against democracy.

It’s not that this monster has raised himself up to threaten the ivory castles of the blue bloods, it’s that millions of people have stood up and said, “Enough is enough.”

It is they against whom the GOP establishment is fighting.

And that fight never turns out well.

Donald Trump isn’t Barry Goldwater in 1964, he is Andrew Jackson in 1828. He is going to storm the White House, and he is going to bring his unwashed hordes with him. The Trump campaign is built on the uniquely American premise that the people are sovereign, and that does not jibe with cozy arrangements of the country-club Republicans. For too long, the Republican Party has exploited its constituencies, instead of served them, and the beaten dog is about to bite.

Some have gone off after Ted Cruz, but most have gone off after Donald Trump. Together, something approaching 80 percent of Republican voters thus far this primary season have told the party establishment to pound salt. You have the clueless elite, and then you have the voters who actually care about America.

And they have picked up a baseball bat to drive the money changers from the temple.

It might be Trump who is being slammed upside the GOP head, but it is not Trump doing the slamming. It is the American people. Veterans and taxpayers, moms and dads, young and old. They are tired of being screwed, they are tired of being ignored, they are tired of being played.

And Trump is their tool.

And the Republican Party can resist them at its peril.

Because the people will be heard. In this party, or the other party, or in a new party. In this election, or a future election, but certainly someday they will be heard. What Donald Trump has done is crack open the door of opportunity, he has given the voters a choice other than Party Hack A versus Party Hack B. When you give the people a chance to order something that’s not on the menu, they do it.

Bernie tried on the Democrat side, and has failed.

Trump is trying on the Republican side, and is succeeding.

And the party is losing.

Every time you stand up and tell the voters that they are wrong, every time you disavow the results of your own party’s primaries, every time you pledge to disqualify the candidate backed by the people, you unleash a firestorm of pent-up electoral rage. Traditional Republican voters have been punked by their party in election after election, with promises unkept and problems unsolved for generations on end. They are now joined by new voters who are unaccustomed to docility and disrespect.

And it’s payback time.

While the Republican bosses go on the evening news to say, “Let them eat cake,” Republican voters go to the ballot box and say, “Let them eat lead.” This is one of those elections where they dip their finger in ink and hold it aloft as a sign they’ve voted. Except in this case it’s the middle finger.

And, yes, the goal is the White House, the objective is the federal government. But right now the Republican establishment stands in the way, and it can either be part of the solution or it can be part of the roadkill.

Thus far it seems intent on self-destruction.

And that’s fine by me.

Last night the people spoke, and the Republican bigwigs went into the backrooms to debate brokered conventions and third-party candidacies. Little did they realize that they were writing the last details of their own political obituaries.

Because this isn’t about Trump.

It’s about the people who vote for him, in record numbers. People who have flocked to the Republican ballot box in numbers unknown since the days of Reagan. The pigs at the trough of Republican power are condemning their party in the name of self-interest. They’ve got theirs, and they’ll be damned if anyone else is going to get any.

But they fight the unbeatable foe.

The American people.

The Republican Party is not trying to steal this election from Donald Trump, it is trying to steal it from the American people. It is trying to deny the franchise to those who fail to kiss its arse. It is declaring Trump voters second-class citizens.

And that never ends well.

A fish rots from the head, and all the Republican Party needs is a good decapitation.

Which every party attack on Donald Trump and his voters makes ever more certain.

- by Bob Lonsberry © 2016


42 posted on 03/05/2016 11:34:19 AM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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To: KC_for_Freedom; MinuteGal

Erick is now a Fox Cable TV Contributor and was hired around the time the Primaries kicked into gear. He’s towing the FOX GOPe line, and doesn’t want to lose his gig. So, he’s anti-Trump, like most on Fox are. He’s scum.


43 posted on 03/05/2016 11:42:58 AM PST by flaglady47 (TRUMP ROCKS !!!)
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To: flaglady47

I will second that, scum


44 posted on 03/05/2016 12:39:43 PM PST by KC_for_Freedom (California engineer (ret) and ex-teacher (ret) now part time Professor (what do you know?))
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To: Brookhaven

Reagan has words for the Conserachildren in the Purity Choir of Conservative Media. This idea that if they just keep screaming they will get a 100%er elected to do everything they want is a fools notion.

Reagan:

“A man 75-80% on my side is a valuable friend and ally, not my enemy:

I know this falls on deaf ears with 100%ers but the fact remains, We are a Constitutional Republic that rests on the notion that the people’s Representatives in Government know how to compromise and negotiate.

This feeling that Cruz will ride into DC and dictate the Conserakids 100%er terms to everyone else there is simply wishful thinking. What is more probably is Cruz would be a GOP Carter. Carter was the same sort of religious puritan who went to DC and assumed he would dictate his political dogmas to everyone there. The record shows how badly that idea failed.

“Conservative” politicians talk a good game and then go to DC and accomplish nothing. After 30 years of fail, it is time to try another solution.

Another fail point for the Conserakids is they think only as far as the election. Then once they win their purity candidates go to DC and fail against the inertia of the DC/Media political machine. 1994-2000-2010-2014 are all example of where this “Next election” mindset has failed.

Trump is merely the 1st wave of a multi wave assault. Cruz might do for a follow up wave, he is not a 1st wave candidate.

The 1st wave job in any assault is to shatter the defenses and open the road for the follow up waves. No matter how flawed you think the vessel is, Trump is the best 1st wave political assault team we have had to hand in my lifetime.

We need to use Trump for all he is worth to shatter the corrupt, “my party right or wrong” mindset that grips vast swaths of the electorate. Break that inertia, get the people thinking outside the party label box and real change is possible. Do not an we slide into a stagnate European style decline that will not end in my lifetime. Cruz shares that agenda point but is not as well equipped by background and media following to achieve that break through as Trump

We either win this now or we have little chance of ever doing it again politically. Once we win we must relentlessly stay on the attack election wave after election wave until we are dead.

I am really not willing to leave this fight to my kids and grand-kids. We have let the ship of state drift since Reagan in the hands of the “smart people”. We failed and most redeem that failure.

This is our generation’s “go” time


45 posted on 03/05/2016 12:40:34 PM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: DPMD

Disgusting, just disgusting.

And a statement that should be a career ender. He can no longer pretend to be a patriot.

How many died at Benghazi because of Hillary? How many operatives in the field may we have lost because of Hillary’s homebrew server? How many life saving ops were aborted or worse?

And she absolutely did lie to the Benghazi Heroes families. And called them liars.

I have found stuff stuck to the bottom of my shoe more deserving of my vote than Hillary.

How many other phony Patriots will out themselves this season? Thank you, Mr Trump.


46 posted on 03/05/2016 12:44:42 PM PST by jazminerose (o)
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To: Mmogamer

...and people still wonder why they’ve given up on the term “conservative” and going full steam ahead with TRUMP!


47 posted on 03/05/2016 12:56:08 PM PST by LibFreeUSA
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To: Brookhaven

A bunch of Freepers constantly post from this guy’s web site - Red State. He’s a total loon.


48 posted on 03/06/2016 7:44:31 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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