Posted on 05/10/2016 12:20:07 PM PDT by fella
Hillary Clinton snagged another endorsement over the weekend, but don't expect her to trumpet it on the campaign trail.
"I have a little announcement to make ... I'm voting for Hillary. I am endorsing Hillary," noted conservative author P.J. O'Rourke said on NPR's Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me. The episode aired over the weekend.
If the Clinton campaign wants to tout O'Rourke's support as it tries to woo moderate Republicans who supported Jeb Bush and George W. Bush, it might want to end the quote there.
"I am endorsing Hillary, and all her lies and all her empty promises," O'Rourke continued. "It's the second-worst thing that can happen to this country, but she's way behind in second place. She's wrong about absolutely everything, but she's wrong within normal parameters."
That last line could be the real key to why so many conservatives just can't get on the Trump Train. Yes, Hillary Clinton is awful, but we all know what kind of awful she is. She has been quite comfortable displaying her awfulness to America for decades now. That doesn't mean one should vote for her (I certainly wouldn't), but she is rather easy to figure out.
Trump, for all his overexposure, is an unknown commodity as far as what he would be like running a big people's country. As we saw the other day, his business acumen doesn't always transition smoothly to the political realm. His supporters find his frequent pivots on issues refreshing and endearing, but the number of do-overs he gets in the Oval Office will be greatly diminished. All in all, it's a recipe for disaster and a good chunk of the electorate is trying to see what happens if it gets cooked in the microwave with a fork in it.
The Great Trump Hope is all predicated on him never changing his mind and working within parameters once elected. Thus far, all he's done is change his mind more frequently than Bette Midler changes outfits in a four-hour show, and display a complete unfamiliarity with any parameters.
But he's got hats.
I gotta believe P.J. is holding on to the punchline.
“Watch this Space”
O’Rourke may be ripping Clinton, but the author of the article isn’t. He ends with this:
“The Great Trump Hope is all predicated on him never changing his mind and working within parameters once elected. Thus far, all he’s done is change his mind more frequently than Bette Midler changes outfits in a four-hour show, and display a complete unfamiliarity with any parameters.”
That is simply false in nearly all its assertions.
Is this a joke?
If you’re a conservative who simply can’t vote for Trump, then just don’t endorse anybody.
Yeah, no kidding. The author is a full-blown TDS’er.
You and I read the same article. He does a great job of beating her a pulp while airing his frustrations.
I find Trump to be a distasteful person. Hillary is awful, but like he said: she’s “within the parameters” of awful that we can expect from the ‘rat party.
No, he's endorsing her despite ripping her apart.
We're not the ones who need to "read the article."
Maybe ORoarke is going over heads, but mocking by imitation of two-faced pols in a season rampant with two-faced pols is NOT smart.
3 Supreme Court appoints by Hillary would destroy America, P J can go f___ himself.
Remember all those FBI/NSA files that Hitlery gathered up before she stepped down as first ‘lady’? I’ll bet O’Rourke’s file and Justice Roberts’ file is in there.
“Not sure what to think of this.”
I think it is satire, akin to this send by a young friend with a good heart but a still soft head. This is the beginning of an insurgency against the uniparty. I think O’Rourke is illustrating the mental and moral bankruptcy of never Trump Republicans.
The Uniparty is taking on water, because THIS is what is going on on the left hand side of the equation.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/zach-bulls/im-with-hillary-im-with-her/10107562646023620
I’m with Hillary. I’m with her.
Zach Bulls·Friday, May 6, 2016
via Jeff Kurtz
I don’t care if she voted for the War in Iraq. I don’t care if she encouraged other members of Congress to vote for the war by stating it was a good business opportunity. Afterward she said it was a mistake and she’s sorry for that. It doesn’t matter that we spent $5.5 trillion dollars and killed hundreds of thousands of people in the process. It doesn’t matter that the war did nothing to curb terrorism, but instead only created more terrorists and increased the incidence of worldwide terrorism. It doesn’t matter because I’m with her.
I don’t care if she accepts money from super pacs. It doesn’t matter that she made exorbitant amounts of money from paid speeches to major corporations. It doesn’t matter if these funds cause her to favor the welfare of corporations over people. It doesn’t matter if it causes her to choose war over peaceful alternatives in order to bolster the profits of our military industrial complex. It doesn’t matter if it causes her to relax regulations on big oil which further contaminates our water and our air. It doesn’t matter if she compromises our commitment to renewable energy and diminishes our effort to address climate change. It doesn’t matter because I’m with her.
I don’t care if she advocates worldwide fracking. It doesn’t matter that scientists consider this harmful to our environment and a major contributor to climate change. It doesn’t matter because I’m with her.
I don’t care if she allows the medical and pharmaceutical industries to overcharge for their products and services. It doesn’t matter that it places a financial strain on people who suffer life-threatening ailments. It doesn’t matter that it often causes their families to go bankrupt. It doesn’t matter because I’m with her.
I don’t care if she and her husband passed the Omnibus Bill and Three Strikes You’re Out. It doesn’t matter that these policies helped to privatize prisons which led to the incarceration of numerous young adults for petty crimes. It doesn’t matter that these folks are charged with felonies and find it difficult to obtain good jobs after serving unwarranted prison terms. It doesn’t matter that their families are made to suffer as well. It doesn’t matter because I’m with her.
I don’t care if she and her husband pushed for and adopted Welfare Reform that allowed states to redistribute funds that would have otherwise gone toward food stamps and low-income housing. It doesn’t matter that it caused hundreds of thousands of children to go without food and proper shelter. It doesn’t matter because I’m with her.
I don’t care if she and her husband repealed Glass-Steagall. It doesn’t matter that it caused the economic crash of 2008. It doesn’t matter that the crash was caused by corrupt business practices. It doesn’t matter that the executives responsible for it were not charged with crimes. It doesn’t matter that the bailout cost taxpayers billions of dollars. It doesn’t matter that property values plummeted and good people ended up foreclosing on their homes. It doesn’t matter because I’m with her.
I don’t care if Hillary and her husband promoted NAFTA, CAFTA, and TPP. It doesn’t matter that these trade agreements served only to give corporations more power over common people. It doesn’t matter that they have kept wages low and sent millions of jobs outside the U.S. It doesn’t matter that they have caused working families to see their purchase power significantly decrease over the past 25 years. It doesn’t matter that they have caused young adults to find it increasingly more difficult to purchase homes and manage their lives without extreme debt. It doesn’t matter because I’m with her.
I don’t care if there is a candidate out there who opposed all these things. It doesn’t matter that this candidate has fought to keep money out of politics. It doesn’t matter that this candidate has fought to limit the power of corporations over people. It doesn’t matter that this candidate consistently stands up and fights for the oppressed. It doesn’t matter that he is consistently on the right side of causes, even when those causes are unpopular. It doesn’t matter. No, it doesn’t matter because I’m with her.
Even PJ wouldn’t call himself a conservative.
He’s libertarian.
I’m not confident free speech as practiced today on FreeRepublic will exist for long under a Hillary Clinton presidency.
The FCC tried not so long ago to stymie Drudge and others like him.
Scalia warned Drudge that he Drudge would see his site closed down someday. Hillary will make that prediction come to pass.
And going the other way, it comes to conservatism. It’s a wash.
Quislings all!
Makes me wonder if Rush endorsing Clinton in ‘96 was really satire.
Who is this “Stevan” Kruiser?
I’m hoping some of these people will come around.
TV Talking Head Idiot WITH BOW TIE is NOT a Conservative.
He’s just a poorly dressed partisan political WONK.
The Gods of the Copybook Headings counsel us to stick with the devil we know, but in this case the devil we know guarantees absolute doom.
This campaign season has more twists and turns and surprises than a Jasper FForde novel.
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