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.
Really. I think you have a chapter in your book called ACTS.
What, exactly, they are is foggy. Perhaps you need a few years to study what Conservatism is before you claim to adhere to its principles. Unless you're a retread, or have lurked for several years, or have gone back over the thousands of threads posted here since the beginning, I doubt you can comprehend what I am referring to.
Prove it.
Yes. I believe in short answers.
Well then Ms, that’s all fine and dandy about what Trump will face in the here and after, but I’m concerned with the here and now. Someone who supported PBA is suspect.
Nothing I said was a lie or could be construed as a lie. And still you say I lie. Keep saying it because it just makes you look crazy.
A rule you truly follow as you have yet to mention one fact or truth in all your libel. As for pious, try looking in the mirror, you are one of the most pious posters on the site.
PIOUS
1.Characterized by a hypocritical concern with virtue; sanctimonious.
2.practiced or used in the name of real or for some ostensibly good object; falsely earnest or sincere:
ie.a pious deception.
Freedom.
Clear now?
This would never be the case if We The Sheeple would take action regarding important issues. Freepers preach and blog, but rarely do more.
Don’t play the victim here; nobody is stopping you from saying and believing whatever silly nonsense you like.
Perhaps you should have used a pharmacy, and saved a few hundred million tax bucks.
However, the principles are quite different between the two systems.
I attended a Planned Parenthood board meeting when I was seven years old.
Call me a liberal. I TRIPLE DOG DARE YOU!
So, you can find no place where trump says he supports planned parenthood. Show any link. I’ll be glad to check it out.
You should probably mosey over to DU because your judgement is so clouded, you definitely need a refresher on the difference.
I think it would behoove you to walk a mile in another mans shoes.
What is in this for Trump? Think about it. He isn’t a syphilitic gimme mo money sexual predator like Bill Clinton. He doesn’t need this literal crap sandwich that Presidential elections have become. Think about what it would be like to be in essence a master of the world you see with more money than some countries entire GDP.
He is old. He has kids who seem to have good values and are passing it on to their kids.
Legacy. He is in this for his legacy. He is an egomaniac, granted. A bit of a narcissist. These things I accept. I also accept that his goals and our goals are aligned. How does he have the legacy of being the best President since George Washington? By being the best President since. I strongly, no emphatically believe he will put our interests first. Why? Because it will get him what he wants. He wants to Join Washington, Lincoln and Reagan as the greats. Is it about his ego, sure. Are we going to be happy with what he does? I am pretty damned sure we will be.
Three One Four
good night
It's the status quo, all over again.
Pretty simple to comprehend, actually.
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