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Trump’s Lies Are a Loyalty Test for His Followers
National Review ^ | April 2, 2016 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 04/02/2016 11:18:24 AM PDT by DrewsDad

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To: nathanbedford

Numbers do change. I have never seen a Republican front runner be attacked by his own party so deliberately. You’d think that Trump’s negatives would lessen once the party actually supports him?


161 posted on 04/02/2016 2:15:22 PM PDT by JmyBryan
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To: nathanbedford

Well said..keep up the good work...


162 posted on 04/02/2016 2:32:40 PM PDT by ken5050 (Trump: "I'm no conservative, but I sure can play one on TV")
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To: Psalm 73

Thank you for your response to my post.

I’ve had a lot of responses to my posts, and yours is certainly one of them.

I will even go so far as to say that your response to my post is easily a response to my post.

I congratulate you and wish you well as you move on into this next phase of your life.


163 posted on 04/02/2016 2:39:28 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: altura
Of course not. Because you cannot.

LOL

164 posted on 04/02/2016 2:57:36 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: DoughtyOne; dsc; PIF; gusty; altura

You Trumpkins prove our point by hurling Trumpisms at us. Can you for once respond to the substance of what has been said? Perhaps we expect too much since often it appears you are incapable of doing so for the reasons Trump himself said that “he loves the least educated.”

It’s the usual stuff:

1. If the polls don’t support your “Dear Leader” they must be dismissed.
2. If it’s an article from National Review, Weekly Standard, NY Times, Washington Post or even the Washington Times, unless they speak glowingly of your “Dear Leader,” these sources are attacked.

3. Before you lost Mark Levin, and even Rush L who supported your “Dear Leader” at the beginning they were great conservative support references. However after you lose Rush L, who called Cruz, the only real conservative in the race and is the legitimate heir to Reagan, they are cast aside as trolls.

At some point, we need to seriously ask Trumpkins can you engage in an original thought, or in the words addressed to former Sen. McCarthy, “don’t you have any decency left in you,” to keep supporting a vulgarian, one who spins his major policy positions faster than whirling dervishes, and all within 24-hours? Someone who unleashes a tsunami of tweets and cannot resist a free TV interview, and then complains he has been made to look like a buffoon? Why allow the press to define and not spend your “billions” of dollars on defining yourself.

This guy is a conman and cheapskate and is now seen as an empty suit being thrashed in a general election by double digits not only by Hillary (the worst possible criminal Rat to run in a century) but even by socialist Bernie. Trump got crushed in the reddest of red states (Utah) and Utah may likely go for Hillary if this vulgarian is the Republican nominee.

He allows his wife to be photographed for a seductive front page spread of GQ, raking in a seven figure check, inviting men to leer at her and masturbate their fantasies and then complains when the ad is used by an independent PAC in a public political campaign to tell voters this H2B visa wife of Trump may be your future First Lady

Yes, Trumpkins get a hold of yourself, think for yourself, and abandon this conman and snake oil salesman before you imperil our entire conservative movement.

It is YOUR credibility that is now in the gutter.


165 posted on 04/02/2016 2:59:40 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

hey! I’m not one of them there Trumpkins, Trumpeters ... I’m with you in agreement.


166 posted on 04/02/2016 3:08:25 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: altura
"Lucianne was a member here. She left because of people like you.
Too much incivility for her."

Yeah, Lucianne needs her "Safe Space" or she will have the vapors. Much easier to ban unpolished plebians who disagree with her than it is to debate them.

But at least you are of tougher stock, to endure the vulgarians here to try to teach them manners and promote the True Savior: Ted Cruz.

So Kudos to you for your strength, courage and endurance.

167 posted on 04/02/2016 3:24:50 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: SubMareener

You did a superb job with that one.


168 posted on 04/02/2016 3:33:49 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: LegendHasIt

Thanks! The Holy Spirit says I should write a book, but right now I am negotiating to see if posting on FreeRepublic.com is enough. Yeah, I know, never works out other than the way He wants it too. ;-)


169 posted on 04/02/2016 3:39:06 PM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: SubMareener

:-)

May He smile upon you either way.


170 posted on 04/02/2016 3:40:41 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: DrewsDad

Bump for future reference.


171 posted on 04/02/2016 4:48:43 PM PDT by Roses0508
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To: Steelfish

“You Trumpkins prove our point by hurling Trumpisms at us.”

Okay, so we see that you’re being paid to pimp for Cruz, and intend to continue even after being shown that he is a pervert. Got it.

“Can you for once respond to the substance of what has been said?”

That one is just too easy. I don’t have the heart to pull the trigger.

“Perhaps we expect too much since often it appears you are incapable of doing so for the reasons Trump himself said that “he loves the least educated.”

Yes, I only have some graduate school. That’s the same as dropping out of the eighth grade, don’cha know. Haven’t read more than four or five thousand books in my entire life. Just think of me as Forrest Gump.

“However after you lose Rush L, who called Cruz, the only real conservative in the race and is the legitimate heir to Reagan, they are cast aside as trolls.”

I doubt that Rush has seen the clip I just showed you. I’d be interested to hear what he would have to say about it. That said, it’s obvious that Trump is not philosophically a movement conservative—yet—so I am at a loss to see why you imagine that you have a point here. And, finally, no one has cast Rush or F. Lee Levin aside as a troll or anything else, perhaps excepting some of your fellow seminar posters.

“the words addressed to former Sen. McCarthy, “don’t you have any decency left in you”

Wow, you just keep convicting yourself with your own words. Who but a leftist would offer that as supportive of anything?

A conservative knows that (a) that whole thing was scripted character assassination with no basis in fact, and (b) McCarthy was right. If you don’t know that, then you’re not a conservative, and you haven’t been hanging out with conservatives.

“to keep supporting a vulgarian”

Better a vulgarian than the pervert you support.

“one who spins his major policy positions faster than whirling dervishes”

A fair person gives a man room to grow.

“and then complains he has been made to look like a buffoon?”

The misconduct of the evilstream misleadia is a proper subject for discussion.

“Why allow the press to define and not spend your “billions” of dollars on defining yourself.”

Trump is still growing. He does not yet understand that his opponents are completely and utterly without the smallest scintilla of decency.

“This guy is...and is now seen as…but even by...”

I guess you wish those things were true, but unless you’re Jiminy Cricket, wishing won’t make it so.

“Trump got crushed in the reddest of red states (Utah)”

Is it that you don’t recognize election fraud when you see it, or just that you approve of it?

“He allows his wife to be photographed for a seductive front page spread of GQ”

He allowed her? What should he have done, in your eyes? Beat her? Handcuff her to the radiator?

“raking in a seven figure check”

Jealous?

“inviting men to leer at her and masturbate their fantasies”

How does one masturbate a fantasy, I wonder? Do you need gloves? In reality, that photo was very tame for this day and age.

“and then complains when the ad is used by an independent PAC in a public political campaign to tell voters this H2B visa wife of Trump may be your future First Lady”

You really have a lot of nerve calling *anyone* a vulgarian, when you approve of putting what you call a “seductive” photograph in front of the electorate, including millions of people who don’t read GQ.

“imperil our entire conservative movement.”

When you say “our” conservative movement, I presume you are referring to the conservative movement that you and the mouse in your pocket have started, because you are no part of the actual conservative movement.

“It is YOUR credibility that is now in the gutter.”

Right.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3413956/posts?page=181#155

Olofosh.


172 posted on 04/02/2016 5:07:04 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: DrewsDad; Robert DeLong; conservativejoy
"Trump Campaign Shrinks Lewandowski's Role"

LOL! conservativejoy and Politico - THERE'S a guaranteed "objective" article.

Come on, DrewsDad - conservativejoy stepped up just recently to spell Cincinatus' Wife in the posting of Trump hitpieces & Trumpkin "morale dinging".

Propaganda-R-Us, those two.

173 posted on 04/02/2016 5:14:22 PM PDT by kiryandil (.)
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To: dsc
LOL! Steelfish posted that "Trump got crushed in the reddest of red states (Utah)"?

I like to talk about that new Lichtensteinian-like country - Cruzutahidaho.

Ted will retreat there after the primaries to bask in the adulation of his followers in that small nation-state.

174 posted on 04/02/2016 5:17:58 PM PDT by kiryandil (.)
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To: blueunicorn6

What happened to Johna’s brain? Will the Uniparty give it back to him after this election or is he just a gonner now?
Establishment conservatives remind me of a Stepford Wives horror show.


175 posted on 04/02/2016 5:21:49 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: SaraJohnson; blueunicorn6
What happened to Johna’s brain? Will the Uniparty give it back to him after this election or is he just a gonner now?
Establishment conservatives remind me of a Stepford Wives horror show.

It saves a lot of reading time. :)

It's amazing how many phony "conservative" pundits there are out there who have outed themselves as Uniparty.

176 posted on 04/02/2016 5:38:48 PM PDT by kiryandil (.)
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To: kiryandil
It's a Politico article. Are you claiming it's inaccurate?

The worst propaganda sites are the"conservative"treehouse, prntly, and themarshallreport.

177 posted on 04/02/2016 5:44:48 PM PDT by DrewsDad (Choose Cruz - The Consistent Constitutional Conservative)
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To: DrewsDad
Jonah Goldbrick "wrote":Without rehashing the whole thing again with reference to frame-by-frame analysis best left for the Zapruder film, let me just say I think all of the important and relevant facts are on Fields’s side. There’s audio of her describing what happened immediately after the Corey Lewandowski incident. There are the bruises captured on film. There’s video and there are eye-witness accounts, all of which corroborate the basic story Fields has been telling.

Terris: “You OK?”

Fields: “Holy sh*t.”

Terris: “Yea he just threw you down.”

Fields: “I can’t believe he just did that that was so hard. Was that Corey [Lewandowski]?”

Terris: “Yeah, like, what threat were you?”

Fields: “That was insane. You should have felt how hard he grabbed me. That’s insane. I’ve never had anyone do that to me from a campaign.”

Terris: “Can I put that in my story?”

Fields: “Yeah, go for it — that was really awful. That’s so unprofessional.”

Terris: “He really just almost threw you down on the ground.”

Fields: “He literally went like this and was grabbing me down. “I don’t even want to do what he just did to me. Oh my God, that really spooked me that someone would do that.”

Don't ever darken our door with your lying yellow spew again, Goldberg.

178 posted on 04/02/2016 5:45:06 PM PDT by kiryandil (.)
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To: DrewsDad
I'm claiming it's a Trump hitpiece posted by The Usual Suspects - the serial posters who are pretty "dedicated" to their "task" on FR.

I don't include you in that group - you're just a fervent Cruz supporter - a different animal altogether.

179 posted on 04/02/2016 5:48:20 PM PDT by kiryandil (.)
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To: Steelfish

It’s posts like that, that cost you.

If you think I’m crazy, a Left wing radical, or anything else, that’s okay.

Thanks.


180 posted on 04/02/2016 5:53:00 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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