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.
It's the same insane logic that leads to the belief that a man who has BRAGGED about all the politicians he's bought over the years is the one who can put an end to the buying of our politicians. People have lost their minds.
What nonsense. Trump will exclusively do the bidding of the billionaire who funded his campaign. The fact that he is the billionaire makes it much more likely that he will act in that billionaire's interest.
Trump works for Trump. He always has and he always will. The fact that you think the interests of some silver-spoon east coast liberal coincides with your interests reveals much.
If you do not understand that, you are living in a mirage world. Creating prosperity AUTOMATICALLY requires that private sector be the dominant sector, not the government.
If Trump is successful in reducing the $1,000,000,000,000 trade deficit, which is result of career politicians making deals based on what their ultra-rich benefactors want (cheap labor express), there will be so many more jobs in the private sector, it will again become dominant.
I will take a self funded Billionaire over every other career politician who is nothing but a slave of his ultra-rich donors.
I am on the Trump email list for 6 months.
I am yet to receive a single email asking for donations from Trump campaign. I donate totally voluntarily. In small amounts only, mostly buying merchandise from his campaign related store.
On the other hand, I get tons of emails from Cruz, Bush & RNC, constantly badgering me to donate.
“If I were going to build a wall to keep out illegals I would build it away from the river maybe 5 or 10 miles inside Texas.”
Sure as long as it’s not your 20 miles of river frontage, 10 miles deep.
If the wall is your main Trump selling point, you will be very sadly disappointed.
Where getting a wall whether Texans like it or not. Most Texans aren’t ninnies like you.
Read the exchange dummy
Good lord
Thank you
Amazing how many Freepers miss the
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One can also hold on that and have all replies that to just that post line up..,,a trick I rarely use
Again thank u
“Let me educate you. Cruz has big money donors, and if elected, who do you thik (sic) will control him? Main Street or K Street? You lose”
Fact is Cruz is my Senator. Considering what he’s had to work with in the GOPe Senate, as far as I’m concerned he’s done a fabulous job. He’s one of very few there with a spine.
“Where getting a wall whether Texans like it or not. Most Texans aren’t ninnies like you.”
Haha, in a couple years I’ll post ya and keep asking well where is it. Better yet, how about in 4 years you come down and point it out.
I did. It was unclear. Someone told me it was tongue-in-cheek, so I read it again, but I don’t spend much time at all fighting meaning out of posts. There are too many.
Here is my thinking.
The political center has been pushed so far left that now Hillary is considered a moderate.
Right now, at this moment in time, you have zero chance of getting any conservative elected President.
We have to pickup Blue States in-mass to even stand a chance.
IMHO, Trump is a step in the right direction.
He wants to create jobs for Americans and this is opposed by both parties.
He wants to seal the border from MuZ invasion.
Those two things might...just might keep us from dropping off the edge.
I don’t seriously think many Muslims support Trump....he doesn’t mince words on them
How much other groups like Jews and Hindus or Buddhists who knows
Only group matters is Jews influence wise and he has several in his inner circle and a Jewish son in law so I’d say he’s as kosher approved as any GOP ever can be
What is your inference?
I’ll be more specific to help out
Many Christians on free republic think Cruz is their only legitimate choice
I disagree and made my comment that many Christians also support Trump
Many many that I know
Now you could have figured that out had you read more or is there a more combative motivation at play here
If so spit it out
I’ll play ball
I think freepers are like the tens of thousands who turn out to trumps rallies. They want a winner for a change. First and foremost, they are against illegal immigration and they want America back before she slides to third world status. That is the big driver this election.
I wasn't singling you out on this. Another one I tire of seeing is "liberal heads are exploding".
Trust me, I more than anyone would love to see an Israeli style fence on the border but it will never happen.
Hundreds of Mexican kids cross the border for school everyday. My state due to federal BS educates Mexicans that don’t ever live here.
You may say, well the schools should check them out and expel them. That too is easier said than done.
Next time you get a chance check out an elector map for south Texas. They may be large conglomerate white ranches but the total area is bluer than any inner city in America. All the ranchers have Mexican ranch hands.
As a matter of fact south of San Antonio the only white faces you’ll see are roughnecks.
I actually get out and campaign for people I like.
Do you ever ask yourself why? Why is it so much better that the middle man is removed?
It saves the Donald money he would have otherwise spent buying a politician, so I understand it's a good deal for him. But why is it a better deal for you or America? Either way, the billionaire gets his way through government manipulation and favoritism. The Donald's been paying for that for years and you're helping him save a few bucks if you elect him, but it holds no appeal for me.
I like you, because you ask fairly simple questions.
Look at it this way....why do ultra rich donors give millions to career politicians?
Despite Cruz^s attacks on his party^s donor class and establishment, the Texas senator Ted Cruz^s GOP campaign has received $37 million from just four donors.
The Wilks family of Cisco, Texas, New York hedge fund tycoon Bob Mercer, Texas energy investor Toby Neugebauer and Illinois manufacturing moguls Dick and Liz Uihlein.
What do you think their motive is? To push the cheap labor express, which makes bigger profits for them! Tax cheat Mercer is counting on president Cruz to institute VAT tax which will save him hundreds of millions in taxes.
On the other hand, Trump has actually LOST LOT OF MONEY by running for president. He lost many very profitable contracts with corporations. He gave up $200 million income from his successful TV show.
Why is Trump doing this? It can’t be for making more money. He has already given a ton of money by entering politics. I am willing to assume main reason is HE LOVES THIS COUNTRY, which has given him so much. Of course it does not hurt that he will gain in legacy for ever.
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