I felt the same way for the last 30 years
Well, at least the party is united!
Ah, the ‘principled conservative’ unicorn again.
Stupid voters.
The GOP has NEVER been ideologically conservative.
So let me get this straight. The writer didn’t feel like a stranger in their own party when the party nominated John McCain or Mitt Romney, but they do feel like a stranger now. That’s interesting that they purport to speak for conservatives.
It would be one thing if Donald Trump were winning and incumbents were simultaneously dropping like rocks. Such a scenario would demonstrate that voters are truly on to the establishment artifice, albeit roped into the media’s sensation over Trump. The fact that Trump is winning even as every establishment candidate is winning exposes this election cycle as a replica of every election cycle – principled guys finish last because the media will ensure that outcome. - See more at: https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/05/millions-of-us-are-strangers-in-our-own-party#sthash.BntJirZZ.dpuf
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Well, Dan, you are exactly right! (A little Ted Cruz lingo for old times sake ;-) Now that the establishment candidates have been eliminated from the Republican side of the Presidential ticket, we will see what Donald J. Trump does to get the support he is going to need in Congress to actually start the demolition of the Regulation Dictatorship.
Maybe Trump will teach the GOP about being conservative. Up till now they have failed to impress. That is why the people had to grab the steering wheel.
Hate to say it, but Cruz talked the talk but really never walked the walk.
That is just one of the reasons that he lost. I could name many other reasons, but deep in their hearts people see those others reasons too, but they don’t wish to admit it.
The lamenting is seriously starting to become a joke, just like they are.
When a candidate gets $hundreds of millions in free publicity and advertising (including Faux News)
When the useful idiots supposedly protesting against Trump, blocking highways and bringing violence along the way are actually helping to promote him (the very people screaming at his events - attacking Trump supporters, and being so ugly - represent the very people that many Republican voters despise... so if they hate Trump, he must be ok...
The last few election cycles - the GOP has force fed us a RINO/Weak candidate and demanded we fall in-line and obediently vote for the “R” to prevent the “D”... and told to “bide your time, the Conservative’s best avenue to change is through the existing system... stick with the Republican Party and you will be heard...
What a huge lie - a lie nearly as big as the fraud that is Donald J Trump. So now we apparently have as the Republican candidate, someone who is to the LEFT of the last two GOP candidates - but hey - he is “great” and he is angry... and he will do so much... all without a single legal or constitutional path to get them done. A man who has no clue what the Constitution actually say (because he proudly says he has never felt a need to read it). The very document that spells out the duty and power of the President and the other two branches of the Federal government, and he has seen no need to read it?
The swill from CR continues.
The “principled conservative” who was neither principled nor particularly conservative in his voting record lost.
The butthurt at that rag will never go away.
“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.
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.
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.
Free Traitors™ are losing political power in the Republican Party. Ha ha.
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.
Yes, the GOPe has been successfully suppressing the base for decades. They need to be destroyed.
But to say Trump is the beneficiary of this is just plain stupid. They did everything in their power to destroy him, and tore the party apart in the process. Their carefully constructed mask was ripped off, revealing the ugly evil underneath.
The first step in restoring this once great country is to get rid of the GOPe, including all of their associated power centers (Fox, National Review, the Weekly Standard, Rove, Beck, Levin, Rush, all the Bushes, etc.).
It may already be too late, but if anyone can do it, it’s Trump. No, he’s not perfect. Neither was Ronald Reagan.
Neither was Winston Churchill. Neither was George Patton. But they were fighters, and the right people for what was needed at the time.
We’re in a fight to save this country right now, the biggest since the Civil War. It’s certain to get VERY ugly before we even get to November. The riots this summer and fall are certain to be severe, and could even lead to mass civil unrest. Obama will stoke the flames.
Once it becomes clear Trump will win, our enemies worldwide are certain to strike while the weakling Obama is still President. Trump already leads Clinton in the polls, and that is in spite of the most extreme attacks on any politician in this country EVER. Even worse than the attacks on Sarah Palin.
Personally, I am certain we have a very rough ride ahead of us in every way. But at least we have a fighter to rally behind, and that means we just might get through it.