Posted on 05/04/2016 7:18:00 AM PDT by sally234
Millions of us are strangers in our own party.
No, this is not because of Donald Trump’s victories over the past few months, although it is certainly a reflection of them. It is because the media has succeeded in helping reelect every single RINO incumbent in every election cycle and most open races, including in this much-vaunted year of the outsider. The system is rigged, but not in the way Donald Trump claims; he is the recipient of the rigged system. It is rigged because anyone who is truly a smart and principled conservative will be destroyed in a primary – either overpowered by the media or the superior power, money or fame of the non-conservative candidate who almost always runs as a conservative outsider as well.
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“It is rigged because anyone who is truly a smart and principled conservative will be destroyed in a primary – either overpowered by the media or the superior power, money or fame of the non-conservative candidate who almost always runs as a conservative outsider as well.”
Maybe the right needs to learn to use this thing called the internet, like the left does to perfection, instead of acting like it’s stupid “kids stuff” for unemployed college freaks.
Maybe they need to start getting into media more, and stop acting like 60 year olds on AM radio is a real weapon against the left?
How about starting a real news network that isn’t a vanity extension of some talk radio guy’s daily program?
You want to win on this battlefield? Then stop acting like the smartest guy in the room because you are a conservative alone and start winning on the ground the left controls.
Fortunately, a lot of Obama’s regulation has been done illegally via EO. They can be canceled for immediate reform.
Donald will be lucky to break 45% of the popular vote.
“and he will do so much... all without a single legal or constitutional path to get them done.”
Except all of the things that have both of those.
Now explain to us which ones dont.
Are you hoping for a Hillary win?
And George W., and Dole, and GHW Bush.
Oh, absolutely! But I only had so much room to work with... and GOPe malfeasance is so expansive. ;)
The last time even 65% of eligible voters even bothered to show up and vote was 1908, way less for state and local elections. At least by anything that I have seen. Many times it didn’t even crack 55%.
I wonder if it will be a high turn out or a low turn out this time around.
Freegards
So they are saying that Trump is dumb and unprincipled I guess. What maroons. "K" Street could easily become a shopping mall and no one would be the loser.
I would say it was more of a stranger since about Jan 20, 1989.
That was the date of the inauguration of G.H.W. Bush who was never a conservative.
And that was the day the republican party started to cave into the democRATS. Excepting, the couple of years of Gingrich as speaker, what exactly has the congress done since 1997 and the ouster of Gingrich as speaker? HAve the held the line on new entitlements, spending or any of that? They have done nothing to prevent the leftward lurch of the education establishment, and the dumbing down of our schools. They have nominally held the line on taxes until recently and now we are soon to be $21 TRILLION in debt.
I agree for the most part but I use 1992 as the date since it is when, thanks to Bush 41 and the GOPe, the Clinton turd was dropped in the bowl.
I voted for McCain and Romney, and every Republican Presidential candidate in over three decades. I will vote for Trump in November, and for the same reason as with everyone except Reagan who got my general election vote: the Democrat is worse, and in this case far worse. If Trump does half of what he says he will do, he will be a vast improvement over the last 24 years.
My dream ticket when this all began was Walker/Cruz. Walker couldn’t put together a national organization, so he never had a chance. My dream ticket today is still Trump/Cruz, but it will be snowing in summer in central FL before that happens. I hope Trump picks a Duncan Hunter or a Jodi Ernst, especially if what happens to the other side is what I think will happen, that HRC will suspend “for health reasons” and Biden/Warren swoops down from the sky to supposedly save the liberal day.
Cruz lost me when he ‘welcomed’ Neil Bush to ‘oversee’ his campaign finances. It meant the entire establishment money was controlled by a bank robber to Cruz. It was symbolic that Cruz would be allowed to run interference for the GOPe in an attempt to get a contested convention.
But Cruz ‘welcomed it’.
As Heavin (devout Evangelical and Founder of Curves) said, Cruz works for the enemy and the establishment republicans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LqH0KSyPRc
Heavin nails it completely and he should know as he spoke directly with Cruz. Although his host Bakker is a joke in political circles, Bakker shines here.
Cruz confirmed it in the hours following the Brussels terror attacks. Instead of holding his head in prayer and saying words of respect and sympathy for the victims and the victim’s families, he immediately launched a tirade about Trump attempting to tie Trump, NATO and Brussel’s terror together. It was awful and illogical on every level.
Now Donald Trump has once again extended an olive branch to Cruz and paid him high praise as a ‘smart guy’, a tough competitor and declared he has an incredible future ahead of him.
Now it is up to Cruz. He can show some class in his soul or he can sink in the mudhole. After his showing, I think it will be the latter.
In the future Trump Administration, should Cruz have taken the low road and not fallen in behind the Trump movement which is much more than Donald Trump, which is in fact comprised of tens of millions of Americans united in purpose, he will have opportunity to snipe away at Trump when there will be challenges and setbacks. It will not be a smooth road for Donald Trump’s America, no road could be smooth for any future President. But as Cruz snipes away and puts on mockingly the inevitable “I told you so’s”, we will not forget how Cruz ‘welcomed’ scoundrels and undesirables to his campaign because that is what truly defines him. It is not his words or his ‘facts’ that color him, it is the character of persons that control him.
“They” are the strangers in OUR party. Now fully exposed. Thank you Trump.
Conservatism in the GOP typically only exists as a haughty ideological conservatism—an idle intellectual exercise with no bearing on practical reality. Most of the conservative pundits are of the same mentality. They’re effectively free to speak it, believe it, even proselytize it—without ever actively applying or living it. Some will fully content themselves indefinitely, constructing mental air castles about how principled they believe themselves to be, etc.
Free Traitors™ are losing political power in the Republican Party. Ha ha.
Two things.
1. The writer never mentions McCain or Romney, and if you are referring to the timing of the statement, well, see #2.
2. If you had read the article you would know that the quote was from Chris McDaniel in 2014 when he lost against Thad Cochran. If you look at a calendar, you might notice that 2014 comes after both 2012 and 2008.
from the Article;
Almost two years ago, my friend Chris McDaniel, a man I helped recruit to run against Thad Cochran – a political fossil who needs no introduction to our readers – delivered a speech on the night he lost the runoff in which he declared, “there are millions of people that feel like strangers in their own party.”
I have felt this way since Reagan’s time.
So, what to do about it? Elect Trump, who not only knows that it is rigged, but who actually might do something about it by replacing the people at the top levels in the Party.
Note that he said, either last night or tonight (its kind of a blur to me - no coffee yet) that he does NOT want the endorsement of some Republicans. That’s a CLEAR message that he’s at war with them, as he is now with Hillary.
Trump is, IMHO, a true patriot who has little patience for politics. However, he knows its power, and is also the kind of person who will get involved in anything that needs to be fixed. Previously, he only did this in his own organization - but politics is, of course, very different. He is probably of the belief that “Politics is too important to leave to the politicians.” He’s going to get elected, and then tear apart the ossified Republican Party like the Tasmanian Devil on crack - at least I hope he does.
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