The Bush Family has run the Republican since 1988. No more Bush influence in the White House.
The Bush Family has run the Republican since 1988. No more Bush influence in the White House.
I'll put Trump's IQ up against Shapiro's any day of the week.
And he'll go easy on former KKK leader David Duke if Duke endorses him.
Real conservatives don't play the race card.
If a few curse words is bad behavior then this idiot doesn’t have a clue.
That's pretty ironic, given your toxic brew you yourself have concocted here.
Look in the mirror, Shapiro.
Maybe instead of being so busy penning his emotional tirades, Ben should get out and actually talk to some Trump supporters for once
The better way to understand this is understand the divide in Conservatism between the Dogmatics vrs the Realists.
This is an old divide in Conservatism. The Dogmatist care nothing about political realities, only the purity of the dogma matters to them. The Realist understands you have to be able to advance the political ball down the field to achieve the goals of the dogma.
Reagan, who was a realist, wrote about it.
By Ronald Reagan in his autobiography An American Life
“When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn’t like it. “Compromise” was a dirty word to them and they wouldn’t face the fact that we couldn’t get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don’t get it all, some said, don’t take anything. I’d learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: ‘I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.’ If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.
What exactly have the conservatives in congress accomplished?
Obamacare scrapped?
Illegals deported?
Wall built?
Anchor babies outlawed?
National debt reduced?
Abortion restricted?
China trade deficit reduced?
Food stamp growth curbed?
Welfare growth reduced?
Fraud in Medicare & Social Security under control?
If Trump can deliver any 3 of above, he is more than enough
conservative for most rational people.
Trump is conservative on these issues:
Pro life since at least 2001,
Wanted to ban partial birth abortion as far back as 2000
Pro Traditional marriage. Gay rights is not his thing
Pro capital punishment
Hold Judges accountable
Common core is a disaster
Anti education unions (2000)
For school choice
Believes man made Climate Change is a hoax
No Cap-and-Tax
For drilling our own
Stressed importance of strong family & culture (2015)
Supports Israel
Opposes Iran deal and letting Iran obtain the bomb
Wants to crush ISIS quickly
Wants a military so strong no one will challenge us
Against unbalanced trade deals that kill American jobs
Against warrant-less government surveillance of citizens
Against having a high national debt
Warns that $24T is a point of no return
Against gun control
For assault weapon ban but says the AR-15 shouldn't
be considered an assault weapon
Wants to repeal Obamacare and replace it with market driven
polices and increased competition among insurance companies
Wants to increase military spending
Top priority to build a REAL wall on the southern border,
and get Mexico to pay for it
Will deport all illegals but will let the hard working
ones go through the legal process to come back
Against Anchor babies
Will bring jobs back through better trade negotiation
Stood up for Birthers and challenged Obama on his fraud
Believes USA is the greatest force for freedom the world
has ever known
Wants to honor commitments on Social Security and Medicare,
which we can afford if he gets the economy going full steam.
Wants to reduce the fraud in disability and other programs
Against marriage penalties in tax code
Wants to simplify tax code with just 3 simple brackets
Wants to reduce income taxes and reduce corporate tax
Wants to rebuild our infrastructure
Wants to apply welfare-to-work to 76 other welfare programs (2011)
Does not have time for political correctness
Not afraid to call out either party or both when they are wrong
Not a puppet of mega-rich donors and Lobbyists
Go Trump 2016! Make America Great Again! It is almost too late, but only Donald Trump has the know-how, courage, name recognition, and freedom from rich donors to accomplish that gargantuan task.
“Trump has drawn some of the worst elements of American life to his campaign”
People that wont do as they are told. Yes, we know.
Picky, picky, picky. . . .
Ben Shapiro is right about Trump, the authoritarian.
Dole/Romney/McCain/Ryan perverted conservatism.
Conservatism it not as defined by Romney.
They keep using that word like it means something to the voters.
Not this year.
“inally, conservatives should oppose Trump full-throatedly because he’s perverting conservatism.”
The problem is that conservatism does not work for conservatives. It may work for the boys down at the Chamber of Commerce. But it does not work for the rest of us.
“conservatives should oppose Trump full-throatedly because he’s perverting conservatism.”
The problem is that Conservatism does not work for conservatives. It works for the Chamber of commerce but not for anyone else.
Three Reasons ESTABLISHMENTARIAN ELITISTS Should Fear The Trump Phenomenon.
Fixed it for you, Ben.
Many of us who have spent a lifetime fighting against the false notion that conservatism is a toxic brew of secret racism and fascism; Trump’s rise provides easy fodder for the opposition.
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Let’s look a young Ben’s “lifetime”:
Ben Shapiro · Age 32 years old - Born Jan 15, 1984
So what was Donald Trump doing while Ben was being a little baby”
Trump promoted Penn Central’s 30th Street rail yard as a site for New York City’s planned Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Trump estimated his company could have completed the project for $110 million, but, while the city chose his site, it rejected his offer and Trump received a broker’s fee on the sale of the property instead. Repairs on the Wollman Rink in Central Park, built in 1955, were started in 1980 with an expected 2 1/2-year construction schedule, but were not completed by 1986. Trump took over the management of the project without the city needing to pay anything, and completed it in three months for $1.95 million, which was $750,000 less than the initial budget.
In 1988, Trump acquired the Taj Mahal Casino in a transaction with Merv Griffin and Resorts International,[50] which led to mounting debt, and by 1989, Trump was unable to meet loan payments. Although he secured additional loans and postponed interest payments, increasing debt brought Trump to business bankruptcy by 1991. Banks and bondholders had lost hundreds of millions of dollars but opted to restructure the debt. The Taj Mahal emerged from bankruptcy on October 5, 1991, with Trump ceding 50 percent ownership in the casino to the original bondholders in exchange for lowered interest rates on the debt and more time to pay it off. He also sold his financially challenged Trump Shuttle airline and his 282-foot megayacht, the Trump Princess. The late 1990s saw a resurgence in Trump’s financial situation. The will of Trump’s father, who died in 1999, divided an estate estimated at $250–300 million equally among his four surviving children.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
I see Shapiro has thrown his hat into the ring for playing the role of Joseph Goebbels. The field is getting crowded, with Kristol, Godberg, Podhoretz, Krauthammer, Diamond, Brooks, Milbank, Goldstein, etc etc.
Wow. As has been said already, the true colors of so-called conservative champions are revealed more and more each day.
I used to enjoy Ben’s columns. But he’s just outed himself NR-style as someone who wants the uni-party to continue at all costs.
It’s almost as if his livelihood depends upon it...
Shapiro dweeb
I wonder what he thinks of amnesty and the wall?
Every word of this article is true, including the ‘ands’