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.
Maureen was a good lady. From his first marriage, I believe. Michael, the adopted son, didn’t turn out too bad, either.
Just the way you said it makes it a lie. You know very well why he takes the small donors money and he has not concealed it nor the purpose.
Oh jeez, I was responding to a comment that I agreed with. There was no need to go to the wall and claim Sarah’s in bed with the devil. Honestly, I think it’s an idiotic statement.
And btw, it may shock you, but people DO lie. Politicians DO lie. It’s life.
Yep. When they refused to back Romney.
I responded to this...
Look buddy, you butted in on my question to another poster who seems to be supporting PP. I have never in my 59 years supported abortion, so I'm unable to understand those who have no problem with PBA, Trump said he supported it, but changed his mind, I have met people who used to support it but accepted Jesus Christ and changed. What caused Trump's conversion? Trump believes in God, but hasn't sought forgiveness. I am very troubled by that, the conversion smacks of politics
I am not your buddy, I am a mom of three... but you carry on with your need to search people souls. And God will judge whether or not Trump has converted... I personally believe that repentance is a private affair and not for the tabloid papers to make light and ridicule..... ALL have sinned and bearing false witness ranks right up there with stealing, murder, and adultery, coveting.. But these are even lesser sins than to have other gods... before Him.
As to whether or nor Sarah is in league with the devil depends on how far you want to take it. Is Trump the devil? LOL No....not hardly. Perhaps it would have been best to say that Sarah seemed to have compromised some principles in supporting Trump. I think she is wrong in her endorsement, but perhaps I don't know all the details to cause her to do so.
A figure of speech is not something to get bent out of shape over. I think Sarah would laugh that one off.
Trump broke the ice jam. It’s risky business, no doubt.
Good point. Without Trump, this campaign would be boring. He’s done more to force issues to the fore. In many ways, this is the best campaign ever.
Always nasty, and clueless to boot.
Cruz fought PP, Trump never did, to quote you, did you miss that tidbit...
PP is an Abortion Mill, everyone but you seems to know that. Hitler also delivered food to the poor, does that excuse Austwitz?
You say Ted is beholden to his supporters, but trump is a hundred times more beholden to the Banks than Cruz, Trumps real estate empire is totally dependent on bank loans. Ted borrowed money, then paid it back. Trump owes more money than you would ever earn in a thousand years.
You swallow a camel and strain at a gnat, and ridicule those who point out the obvious.
Why are you guys willing to vote for another populist like Obama who spent most of his live as a flaming liberal and slander a real Conservative even though you KNOW ITS A LIE!!!
No Christian I know assesses character based on words coming from the mouth.
Count Trump’s kids for pro-life evidence. Note his adult children are all in business with him.
You worry about your children and grandchildren but refuse to put out the fire burning them “because principles!”
Trump is your bitter medicine. Try a spoonful of sugar and you won’t choke on it.
Trump WAS won over.
Despite your article, you can't find one place in this campaign where trump said he supports planned parenthood. It doesn't exist.
I challenge you to find it.
And without it the premise of your article goes down in flames.
Easy to say, but damn hard to prove, unlike Trump. Trump is against abortion but for Planned Parenthood, Is a conservative now, but thinks Hillery would make a good president, donated a lot of money to the Clintons to put them in power. Is a wonderful business man but gone bankrupt multiple times, Would make a fine president, if he could get his mouth out of the gutter, a great diplomat, if he could stop insulting everyone and will remove the shame from America with his fine example of bragging about fornicating, adultery and his First Lady, or third that has done nude lesbian photo shoots. You are ludicrous, beyond reason and quite possibly insane.
Really?
What other aspect of “Planned Parenthood” cannot be done by a local clinic without hundreds of millions of tax dollars?
Planned Parenthood has killed more Americans than all the wars in our history combined. Trump wants to hire them for pap smears? They make Hitler look like a good guy.
What could go wrong?
Plenty of Muslims supporting Trump, whats your point?
A thousand times more liberals support Trump too, but that is natural, because Trump is one.
Great post.
What?
I just heard Trump say PP does wonderful things for women's health, but not so much the abortion part.
Except for abortion, it sure sounds like Trump thinks PP does wonderful things.
He even said "wonderful".
Whatever you're smoking, I sure hope your employer doesn't test for it.
Well, you know, Maggie Sanger and Adolph had lots in common.......
Bullspit. FR hasn't changed one iota, except now we're putting our principles to action.
I'm sorry you can't comprehend the finer points around political maneuvering and why Trump is absolutely necessary. I feel pity for people who post absolute garbage about their "principles," then do nothing when socialists take over all three branches of government.
What's happening now is the New York way of doing things -- if you can't make it here, then you can't make it anywhere.
Everything you say is back asswards. Like you think Trump ever did anything for anybody but himself, and has not spent his entire life trying to rule the world and be wealthy.
Don't demand others get real, when your are totally unrealistic.
How is he a puppet, because he borrowed money and paid it back?
I bet Trump has outstanding loans right now a hundred times larger than the one Cruz paid back.
That makes Trump a hundred times the puppet by your book.
Cut back on the Cool-Aid, while you still have enough brain cells to type.
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