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.
And how are these people worse for the country than Trump, who has been bragging about all the special favoritism he's purchased from politicians over the years?
If suddenly, Bob Mercer decided he was going to become a politician instead of buying a politician, would he suddenly be above the buying and selling of politicians and be viewed as a noble rich man out to save the country?
Honestly, the logic of saving some rich guy the expense of buying politicians by giving him the political office still only looks beneficial to the billionaire, not to me and not to my country.
Reminds me of the blind faith of Obama supporters.
It’s exactly the same blind faith......and that same faith is drawing the Obama voters to Trump...they just want the ride and thrills and will put their cart behind any parade to give them that.....we have our own as well as FR shows.
I too attend Calvary Chapel. Very good teaching church.
I will note, when reading through the posts almost every pro Trump post is bitter, angry, attacking, accusing.
I think that, deep down, the people that support Trump really do know he’s not our guy; he is not conservative and he’s a loose cannon but they’re angry too so they’re waving his flag. We’re all angry at what’s been happening to our nation. But we’re going right back to a guy making high falutin’ promises without an ounce of conviction for our cause, in the case of Trump.
That the best you got??? 35 years ago???
When you described your town in SC, it seemed as if you were talking about my home town in Texas. When Mr. Trump initially announced and took his hard line on immigration, I was skeptical but very pleased that he was willing to take the heat. Just about the time I got over my skepticism and decided I would support him, he slipped in the new provision that we would bring the good ones back.
He hasn't defined who he considers a "good one" but whoever they are, his policy now seems to be that they could just go home for the weekend, pick up a permit and return with all the rights of a legal immigrant. Ironically, his policy now seems to be more liberal than the McCain policy of having them pay a fine and back taxes and then receive legal status. Despite this significant change, he is still being given credit for his original hard line stand.
Being almost a "single issue voter" on the question of immigration, Mr. Trump's waffling on this issue has caused my to look at other aspects of his candidacy that I had previously been willing to overlook. He seems to be very thin skinned and exhibits a disturbing sense of entitlement. As angry as I am about the betrayal by the political establishment, I am not totally convinced that Mr. Trump is the alternative. He, along with many of his most ardent supporters, need to understand that you can't bully or insult detractors into becoming supporters. In any event, I appreciate your post and sympathize with you for the loss of the hometown you once had.
Cult of Personality....once again.
Ditto all of that...!
Cruz beats hillary in every poll; trump doesn’t.
Right back at you....Catsrus.
Funny how that works, eh?
the way to bring those jobs back is to radically change the tax system, something trump is NOT willing to do (that i’ve heard) and something that Cruz IS willing to do.
that is the answer to all these unemployed people. It is NOT punishing companies that move overseas. They’re not doing it because they hate America; they’re doing it for their shareholders, which is their obligation, because the tax burden (and unions) are crippling companies.
You people just don't have a clue, or don't care...You seem to think a Cruz, a Rubio or a Bush in office will bring the country right back on track...
We have U.N. troops training and stationed in the U.S...We are being over run with muzlim terrorists by the thousands...We are basically bankrupt and your 'conservatives' are pushing to bring in more welfare lovin' illegal aliens...Our manufacturing jobs are all but gone, another large one packing up last week...
Obama and the conservatives you love are doing their best to get into a direct war with Russia in Syria...Obama's most recent EO gives him the power to use American AND U.N. troops on American citizens...
N. Korea just claimed they are going to do a whole bunch more ballistic missile tests...
What does it take for you guys to wake up??? Trump is the ONLY one who even talks about this stuff...
If those things don't matter to you guys, what in the world does???
I won't speak for Jim Robinson whom some of you are disparaging for turning this site into a liberal haven but to my knowledge Free Republic was based on a Constitutional based country and A FREE REPUBLIC...NOT a GOPe Republican gov't where every Tom, Dick, and Harry calls himself a conservative...
-— 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 -—
Trump uber alles.
I don’t understand his appeal at all.
Because we know the dire straights we are in and Trump is the only one who offers a way out...The others including Cruz offer nothing...Absolutely nothing...Just onward thru the fog into the New World Order...The One World Gov't where the United Nations is in charge and there is no longer a United States but a North American Union...
We are the result of the strong delusion??? You don't have a clue...Put the bible away before you hurt yourself with it...
-— I know women who have used their services, and not for abortion reasons -—
And they have one bank account for abortions and one bank account for condoms, right?
Please.
Either Trump doesn’t understand business or he’s lying.
He's a liar, he does anything to get what he wants, and he's a cheat.
When tax payer funds foes to an organization that performs abortion, that is a mandated subsidizing of abortion, period. Fund women’s health organizations that provide needed health services, not the murder of the unborn.
WOW! That was some video. Very scary, indeed.
And tell us what you think...when you have finished it.
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