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The Albatross of Having Endorsed Trump
National Review ^ | 2/28/2016 | George Will

Posted on 02/29/2016 6:58:09 AM PST by LouD

Donald Trump’s distinctive rhetorical style — think of a drunk with a bullhorn reading aloud James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake under water — poses an almost insuperable challenge to people whose painful duty is to try to extract clarity from his effusions. For example, last week, during a long stream of semi-consciousness in Fort Worth, this man who as president would nominate members of the federal judiciary vowed to “open up” libel laws to make it easier to sue — to intimidate and punish — people who write “negative” things. Well. Trump, the thin-skinned tough guy, resembles a campus crybaby who has wandered out of his “safe space.”

Trump is a presidential aspirant who would flunk an eighth-grade civics exam. More than anything Marco Rubio said about Trump in Houston, it was Rubio’s laughter at Trump that galled the perhaps bogus billionaire. Like all bullies, Trump is a coward, and like all those who feel the need to boast about being strong and tough, he is neither....

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To: LouD

“Trump is a buffoon, and his endorsers, like his supporters, will come to regret this epic lapse of judgement.”

Because voting for ‘conservative’ career politicians has worked so well over the past ~30 years.


21 posted on 02/29/2016 7:05:33 AM PST by tatown
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To: LouD

Trump is Ross Perot with a bullhorn. For better or for worse. Its going to be a long roller coaster ride.


22 posted on 02/29/2016 7:05:53 AM PST by marron
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To: LouD

George Will is sooo yesterday. Many people fail to stay up with the times and long for the good old days of a GOP establishment that gets elected and DOES NOTHING.


23 posted on 02/29/2016 7:06:13 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: marktwain

The death of the Pundit Class cannot come too soon. They area creation of the media who has time and space to fill, but otherwise who needs them?

George Will: I don’t care what you think.


24 posted on 02/29/2016 7:06:22 AM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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To: stratboy

You said..
“Or like the Cruz supoporters who can’t accept that it is over.”

Oh I know he’s not going to be the nominee. And I have issues with some of Cruz’s votes. And I believe Trump is the next president

The difference is that I don’t spin for him or mold him what I think he will be. There’s going to be a bit of buyer’s remorse here in the near and distant future in regards to Trump


25 posted on 02/29/2016 7:06:44 AM PST by LMAO ("Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more" Anthem by Rush)
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To: LouD
Trump is a buffoon, and his endorsers, like his supporters, will come to regret this epic lapse of judgement.

Really?

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We elected so called sound conservatives into office and look what we got. The GOP made the Trump movement. You don't like Trump? Get rid of the GOP establishment that caused him to succeed, otherwise you and others are part of the problem.

26 posted on 02/29/2016 7:06:49 AM PST by dragonblustar
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To: LMAO

>> There are still some 2008 BHO backers <<

That’s nothing. I know a few folks who still carry the torch for Jimmy Earl Carter, thinking he was among our greatest POTI.


27 posted on 02/29/2016 7:07:01 AM PST by Hawthorn
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Anything posted that comes from George Will deserves an immediate ZOT. He is no conservative, and no friend of Free Republic.


28 posted on 02/29/2016 7:07:10 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: LouD

48% of Republicans say they won’t vote for Trump in the general, so his chances of winning are slim.

Why would a politician endorse him, when his only feature is supposed to be “winning”?


29 posted on 02/29/2016 7:07:12 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: LMAO

I regret voting for the GOP, which controls Congress and fails to stop Obama’s agemda.


30 posted on 02/29/2016 7:07:13 AM PST by kabar
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To: LouD
think of a drunk with a bullhorn

Think of a schmuck with a typewriter.

ML/NJ

31 posted on 02/29/2016 7:07:15 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: MNJohnnie

True words


32 posted on 02/29/2016 7:07:27 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouadsandb)
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To: LouD

George Will who like Jonah Goldberg and Steven Hayes just cannot move to acceptance. LOL!


33 posted on 02/29/2016 7:07:28 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: LouD

Sour grapes. From NRO no less. Laughable


34 posted on 02/29/2016 7:08:02 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouadsandb)
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To: LouD

The only ones concerned about how bad Trump is are the same people that have been controlling things for decades

AND THE HEcK WITH ALL OF THEM


35 posted on 02/29/2016 7:08:08 AM PST by Mr. K (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
48% of Republicans say they won’t vote for Trump in the general,

Where did you dig this crap up?

36 posted on 02/29/2016 7:08:13 AM PST by kabar
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To: marktwain
George Will is the poster child of what is wrong with the National Review type of commentator - cheerleaders for the establishment that made Trump both possible and necessary. They tell us we need experienced pols to run DC - and what has that gotten us? They think we should be like an Omega pledge in Animal House - "Thank you sir, may I have another?"

Not this time. We have someone who is the spanker, not the spankee. And the squeals from the GOP-e are sweet music.

37 posted on 02/29/2016 7:08:41 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: LouD
There goes George Will's sleepover invitation to Mar-A-Lago!

Donald J. Trump

✔ ‎

@realDonaldTrump

Broken down political pundit @GeorgeWill, who is wrong almost all of the time, should be thrown off @FoxNews. Boring and totally biased!

10:37 AM - 19 Nov 2015

38 posted on 02/29/2016 7:09:13 AM PST by COUNTrecount (Race Baiting...... "It's What's For Breakfast")
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To: VitacoreVision

Precisely

So many wanted to destroy the GOPe. Now that it is done they are whining


39 posted on 02/29/2016 7:09:15 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouadsandb)
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To: LouD

National Review - a magazine no one reads. How is this magazine still in business if not for hand outs from the GOPe so it can serve as the PRAVDA of the GOP establishment? It’s a magazine designed to put an intellectual gloss over the scam on the base voters.


40 posted on 02/29/2016 7:09:32 AM PST by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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