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.
“I think it is mainly his saying he’ll build a wall. I live in Texas and I promise you it will never be built. “
The wall thing is crazy anyway. The border can easily sealed without a government built wall. Just send National Guard personal there, and it could be closed in a week.
The goal is to seal the border; not to have a huge government make work project.
Trump knows this; but “building a wall” is a catchy phrase.
Great thread post. Agree
“the “conservatives†we support tell us we can go along for the ride, “
You are confusing “conservatives” with Republicans. Big difference.
The few conservatives we have in the country; such as my states Steve King; have done some good things in DC.
Yes, it has.
However...., I do not consider Cruz to be a natural born citizen.
ML/NJ
This would be a good zot thread. A lot of old trash needs cleaning out.
Riight, and he probably didn't support the holocaust aspect of Hitler, either, but boy, did Hitler do a good job of getting the German economy back on track!
I case you missed the sarcasm, your comment is the most ridiculous justification of Trump I have ever heard. Your reaction is the whole purpose of the post. Plan Parenthood IS abortion. The rest of its organization is just there for cover to keep the money flowing from killing babies.
Thanks for your posts!
I live in Texas and I promise you it will never be built.
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Could you explain your promise that it will never be built? I know there are some major
obsticales to be overcome if it is built.
I am feeling the same way you are. Thanks for your post.
It is coming from a place of sincere desperation. The last 3 Presidential election cycles and congressional races have failed to produce the Republic we knew.
Instead, we have been mislead and betrayed over and over again ...not just for Obama’s term, but also I feel in Bush’s last term.
Our vision is 20-20 looking into the past, shaking our heads and realizing we have failed the last great President’s challenge ....”freedom is only one generation away from being lost” to failing our founder’s admonition of...”a Republic, if you can keep it.”
In the land of Freedom we have failed to defend our nation from the enemy within. Instead we have exalted them as some of our nation’s best thinkers, philosophers, teachers, and scientists. We gave them room to pander their dangerous ideologies and they used our own Rights against us. All the while we complied to their demands and acquiesced our Freedom to them.
So, here we are at what I am considering the first Post-United States election. Desperation, yes that is what it is. But, Freedom has been lost and I can’t say I feel guilty about losing it, we worked within the system and being good citizens didn’t tread on the soil of the tree of liberty. We thought we could water it with votes. In a time when real drought was cutting off the blood supply, we sprinkled the ground with poisoned votes.
I don’t believe that tree is coming back to life anytime soon. Perhaps someone with save a bit of the root for another future time and another generation.
But for now Liberty has been lost. Paging through my own posting record I still believe Trump, Cruz, and Rubio are not the answer...but then the pain arrives, the ache of the heart for Post-America and faux elections.
#1- it will be 100% eminent domain here in Texas
#2- it cuts off the rio grande from ranchers cows
#3- congress and senate will never approve it.
I think the solution here in Texas is to give the feds an easement to build a road along the rio grande and atleast quadruple the border patrol. Plus give bonuses for each capture.
Exactly correct. Trump is the only candidate will to tell the truth about the destruction of this nation via mass immigration. The only one, yeah maybe Cruz had a meaningless talking point or two. Cruz had the opportunity to make legal and illegal immigration the center piece of his campaign but his choose not do.
From another thread
Why are we supporting Trump? We are in a war with the Marxist globalists and we are at war with Islam and we are losing both wars. The country needs a leader that is unabashedly an American first. A leader that will defend America, rebuild the military, secure the border, defend Christianity, bring back manufacturing jobs and deport illegals. Prior to Trump getting in, NO ONE was talking about any of these things. NO ONE.
If we do not fix immigration this election cycle the country is done, the constitution is dead and we the people are screwed. That is why we the people are getting behind Trump. It got zero to do with right/left. It's survival.
I guess Phyllis Schlafly is not a conservative any more either. Trump is 'last hope for America'. Some people can see the forest thru the trees others can't.
“Cruz has done nothing for the state of Texas since elected.”
True. And he did look away, and did not support landowners, when the government was trying to use eminent domain to seize land for a foreign pipeline. This, after he promised to stand by the citizens against eminent domain.
Limbaugh has been brain washing conservative listeners into supporting the glowBULList agenda for decades. His handy work is can be seen all over Free Republic.
If you the the African people are going to let cows stand in the way of US sovereignty you are FOS.
I guess the cows hundreds of mules north of the Rio Grande have no access to water. /sarc
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