This thread proves Goldberg’s point, and painfully. You make a simple assertion of fact like “Trump is not a conservative” - a point of substance, and one debatable with facts and logic - and within seconds the supporters begin the substance-free name calling, and the pre-recorded exegesis of the demonstrable false dilemma takes up the rest of the white space.
I never thought I’d see an old style cult of personality erupt among conservatives, but I’m watching it, with all the fascination due a slow-motion train wreck. It won’t end well, and the landscape will be littered with executed partisans at the end. Cult leaders always betray the first generation in order to grow the second. Something here about being doomed to repeat history. Sad.
Sad, but actually fascinating at the level of pure intellectual curiosity. I do enjoy (it’s a sort of hobby) sociological crowd-watching. When I can’t make it to the mall to watch teenage girls shriek over a 15 year old kid with no observable qualities, I can now just come to a freeper show and collect the shrieks of the freepers as they swoon over another bad boy who - what? - offended daddy? Is that what you wanted all these years? Someone to finally say rude things to daddy that you couldn’t say yourself? Wow. Those of us who’ve retained our reason and can’t identify one good quality in the strutting blowhard are just....fascinated.
Meanwhile, a conservative governor with a record of economic governance drops out of the race. Another conservative governor with a history of actually fighting the left and winning is largely ignored.
Allow me to blow some rational oxygen into the room between shrieks (you can stagger back here and resuscitate your sanity after it all blows over):
No. No, Donald Trump is not:
1. putting the media in their place (they’re laughing)
2. removing the establishment GOP from their seats of power (they’re still there)
3. going to run for the presidency without taking money from “special interests” (he doesn’t have the liquid assets)
4. going to deport the illegals (he’ll change that position overnight when he is pressed on the details. Watch.)
5. build a wall and make Mexico pay for it (again, he is the most malleable under pressure of all the candidates)
6. not, I say, a conservative on any issue. (He will say anything, then reverse himself within a day.)
7. Not different because “he fights”. (No, he bluffs, then backs down when called, or just lies about what he said. He’s a poker player. The table is attracting real pros. Just watch.)
7. Not going to win the GOP nomination.
8. Not going to be President of the United States. Or hold any public office, for that matter.
Now go ahead and put those posters up on your bedroom wall, but you’re not going to the dance with that idiot.
Excellent points, Taliesan.
BRAVO!! PRECISELY RIGHT.
You will never dance with any idiot. You are a loser. Your post is truly the most ignorant piece of garbage I have ever read.
So which loser are you for? and when that loser loses, what are we to get from it? Huh?
Oh man, you are a true conservative purist. Losin’ is so good because you feel all high and mighty and you are better than those who want to save the country.