Posted on 02/14/2016 9:47:13 PM PST by OneVike
I have been a member of FreeRepublic since February 1998, and in all my years I have ever seen so many Freepers support, and defend such a leftist candidate as Donald Trump. In the old days, any candidate that spouted the rhetoric coming out of his mouth would have been received with unanimous hatred from Freepers.
Mitt Romney was met with scorn when he claimed to have changed and was more conservative than his record showed. However, The Donald says the same thing and he is allowed to wear his liberal record as badge of honor, because he has been born again. Never mind that his fruit smells like Skubala. Any Republican candidate in the past who supported partial birth abortion was considered dead on arrival with 99.9% of Freepers. Yet a vast number of Freepers today look at Trump's defense of PP, and attack the candidate who dares to bring it up at a debate.
Thinking I have stumbled in some black hole of Bizzaro World, I decided to spend most the night, after the debate yesterday, researching past posts and comments of many Freepers who support Trump. I must admit that I wasn't too shocked to see that not all, but the vast majority, of his supporters have joined FR within the last 8 years. However I pretty much only searched the opinions of his most ardent supporters.
Interestingly enough, the ones I researched, all demanded that both Houses of Congress go after Planned Parenthood for selling baby parts. Many of them even demanded that the House use their power of the purse to defund PP. Yet these very same individuals defend, and make excuse for Trump's defense of said abortion factory, or at least claim it's bothersome but will still support him. These same individuals, however, were demanding McConnell resign for failing to pass legislation in the senate defunding PP. I did similar searches on their opinions of various other topics that Trump defends which would normally be cause of revulsion from these supporters had it been any other politician.
Well, I must admit that I am rather stunned by the way they have so easily changed their stances.
Who would have known that those who accused Jimmy Carter of never meeting a dictator and communist he didn't like, would now tout that his endorsement of Trump is not Trumps problem, and some even claim it will help him with Democrat voters in November. So we are now to welcome a politician that will get votes from leftists?
I thought the idea was to win them over to conservatism, not to abandon our beliefs just to get them to vote for our guy. So when will Freepers decide we need to change our stances on topics like "Black Lives Matter" to get more blacks to vote for our guy, or maybe we can find a good Muslim candidate who has made billions and talks a good game. Hey, so what if he may support Sharia law, just think of all those Muslim votes we can get from refugees Obama shipped in and we could actually own Dearborn Michigan. There has got to be some great female politicians who support PP that we could get behind, After all, we do have a problem with the female vote, right?
Yea, I'm just an old timer with old time values from the days when The Donald was still giving money to the Clintons and laughing at Republicans for making such a big deal over BJs in the Oval Office. Yup, just a geezer who remembers the wall of separation set up by Jamie Gorelick to keep Clinton from being prosecuted over Witewater which led to the attack on 9/11.
I guess I'm a conspiracy believer who thinks 9/11 was Clinton's fault, not GW's, and that the Weapons of Mass Destruction the NY Times finally admitted existed were originally sold to the public by the Clinton's to help get the Democrats on board for the war on Iraq.
Those were the good old days when we used to rip apart fake politicians for trying too hard to fit into our club, instead of ripping the messengers for noticing a fake when we see one.
Yea, that was before FreeRepublic jumped the Shark.
Aw, geez.
Did you have to?
Coming after posting the pic in #161, too.
Now that pic there was funny I don't care who you are.
Even OneVike (the butt of the joke as it were) could get a laugh out of that one I would suppose.
It’s a metaphor, get over it
Sarah says Ted has not made many friends
Well, I seem to recall a certain governor from Alaska who was accused of the same by her detractors.
Well, now she turns her back on a man who is in the same boat she was. The reason he doesn’t make many friends in Washington is because he wants to take away their power and return it to the states
If he is successful, even the tax CPA’s are going to hate him.
Ditto.
Good to know.
I watched it and it convinced me that he’s the guy I want negotiating for me.
I’m voting for a president, not a church pastor or boy scout troop leader.
Well to bad, he can't beat the Conservatives who did that already.
I doubt that very much.
Only small donations from people who send them in. He isn’t soliciting for them. Big difference,a nd yes, he is self-funding - not taking any money from Super PACs, lobbyists, or special interest groups, except the American people - he has a special interest in them.
Which is it?
I’m with you I have been here since 1998.. I agree whole hardheadedly it’s like a dream world.. But I think some of these Drumph supporters are the old Ron Paul supporters!!!
Saw a post from a Trump supporter call Rush "Hush Bimbo".
Where have I seen Rush called that befor?
Oh, I remember- it was on DU.
Please provide a link to back that up.
Newbie.
Cute
LOL
I dislike Beck, he worships a false God.
That is one endorsement I wish wasn’t endorsing Ted, but oh well.
See, I am nit a cultist blindly following and accepting everything.
WRONG!
The woman He told to go and sin no more was brought to Him by a crowd threatening to stone her.
So much for your Bible knowledge.
WE HAVE LOST OUR COUNTRY and we need to fight the oligarchy to get it back. There is a real chance Trump could achieve something. Not because he is uber conservative; that is non applicable. It’s because he is bold, patriotic, and very rich so he can protect his family from what may threaten them.
Here! Here! At this moment, the globalists are trying to get us in WW3 via Syria. Quite frankly Russia can have it—maybe bring some sense to the region after we so screwed it up.
I can’t decide if the nation has gone to fascism or oligarchy. Perhaps they are the same in the Mussolini sense. Didn’t he say that Fascism is the blending of the corporate and the state back in 1923?
For the GOPe, they will be satisfied with 45% of the trough. If they win with their candidate, then its 55%. The whole game is to keep feeding at the trough. Trump is the only candidate who represents Main Street. He threatens the trough. It will be bloody.
I was listening to Michael Steels radio program on Saturday on XM. He had on a RNC Rules guy named Curly ? From North Dakota perhaps. Anyway, they plan on stripping Trump of his delegates even if he has enough to win the first ballot. They plan on ruling that delegates are not bound to the candidate and will invoke Rule 37 to do secret balloting of the delegates on the first round which means that the delegates are not bound to the candidate. The fix is in my FRiends...Does anyone think Cruz would even have a chance at the convention? No..he will go away quietly back to the Senate. Trump on the other hand would roar like the lion he is and expose the whole fraud for what it is and perhaps even launch a nationwide write in campaign.
When Trump decided to give his pledge, I hope he had his team pour over the rules and figure out tactics to beat the RNC at their own cute little game.
This is not about Trump vs Cruz. This is about the state of the nation. Frankly, at this point I don’t care how many conservatives can fit on teh head of a pin. I want to take that pin and jab it in GOPe’s eyeball.
So you support taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood? Money so they can free up more money to chop up babies to sell
I did, and it was funny.
This is reality.... This is who represents US today....
Trump freaks out when asked about abortion again
And people wonder why conservatives do not trust this arrogant clown??
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