Posted on 07/13/2015 9:26:59 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
Isnip)......I truly, honestly, and with all my heart and mind think Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters are making a yuuuuuuge mistake. I think they are being conned and played. I feel like a guy whose brother is being taken advantage of by a grifter. I’m watching helplessly as the con artist congratulates him for taking out a third mortgage......(snip)
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
and once again, your avoidance of logic and intellect is complete.
It takes more than saying the right things to make a person qualified for the Presidency. Although I’m certainly glad someone is saying the right things.
DONT WORRY TRUMP HAS NO CHANCE WHAT SO EVER,
I don’t think people are warming to Trump so much as his message. Also, they are relieved to finally see someone in power (economic power in Trump’s case) with the guts to point out publically that the Emperor has no clothes.
I like the stuff Trump is saying and I like his attitude. He cuts through the BS and says what he thinks without reading from a prepared statement. Mostly, I like that he is punching back. He waits for the stupid gotcha questions and punches the media right in the nose.
I’m not a supporter of any candidate right now. I like Cruz but I’m watching to see how he acts in the next few months. Trump? As I said, I like what he’s saying right now. My main problem with him is I have noticed over the years he seems to have a short attention span. I can’t help but wonder if he will be as passionate on the same things 6 months from now. Or a year from now.
I know one thing, though. All the right people want him to shut up and that makes me smile.
Trump has a particular function, and I find it very interesting and entertaining. I support him BEING THERE. I don’t support him as a candidate. He is sucking a lot of media oxygen. There are folks, like me, who think it’s simply great that his is in, yes, spouting his mouth off, but unquestionably beating on topics the so-called REAL candidates will not touch or have to tap-dance around. There are folks who probably support him as a candidate, and those I think are misguided. But I do not care that they are misguided. If Trump drops out later on, they will at least have had the opportunity to hear a contrary view on illegal immigration. They will figure out what they’re doing later. Trump’s effort cements a good swath of the electorate into an anti-illegal view and by the time the press and the Roves and Linda Grahams of the world beat on him and beat on him and beat on him, it is they who will look like fools. I’m not seeing a negative here.
I don’t care about Jonah or his butt hurt at NRO. Jonah’s not running. The NRO is not running.
I only care if you can actually refute any particular thing. Apparently, you have answer that no, you cannot, so you’ll sink to personal attacks on Jonah.
The first Trump supporter to respond made an honest and intellectual response. I disagree, but I respect it. You, on the other hand.....
I don't think he's any answer. I do, however, think he's getting people talking about the most important issue of the day, IMHO. One that others are simply afraid to.
Yep. Extreme problems require extreme measures and we got some major major extreme problems. Extreme corruption, extreme elitism, the people are and have been treated are mere serfs for years - people who exist merely to labor and support the masters while the masters do whatever they please. The people have been voiceless, short of full scale rebellion also completely powerless. Now we have a man who takes on these punks in Washington, these slave drivers, these fascists who demand we buy a companies product or be punished, he calls them out for exactly what they are and incredibly people criticize him? With the exception of maybe one or two other candidates, let us all try to imagine what will happen if Trump DOESN’T win...This country will - be - finished. We cannot go any further left than where we are now without this country completely being destroyed in the process. This guy is a GODSEND, he came in at exactly the right time and to hell with anybody who doesn’t like it.
Glad Jonah was able to buy a pair of pants.
Pray America is waking
EXACTLY!! And BTW, you have the best screen name at FR....maybe on the entire web.
I could not agree more! - If Trump is either forced out or chooses to get out of the R column as a independent then I have to get away from Trump. It's actually hilarious how both the RINO's, Progressives and Demonrats are trying to marginalize Trump, man I can not wait for the debates!
I don’t think he’s a conservative, but he’s doing a damned good job of separating the wheat from the chaff...
All one has to do is look at all the RINO’s clamoring for coverage to try and shut him up...and the squealing from the leftists...says about all I need to hear.
He’s taking a lot of flak, probably clearing a path for a legitimate contender like Ted Cruz.
When off script (which is rare these days), Hillary says “you know” almost as much as Obama says “uhhhh”.
Not something I consider a sign of high intelligence.
Time for an intervention with National Review as well:
Red State: “At one time National Review was a proudly conservative publication. No more.”
“Mark Steyn made the mistake of taking the side of Duck Dynasty patriarch, Phil Robertson, in the fascist assault carried out on him by the lobbying group for deviant sexual practices, GLAAD. This got the knickers of his editor, someone named Jason Lee Steorts, in a twist.”
http://www.redstate.com/2013/12/22/national-review-editor-mark-steyn-is-a-big-meany/
Town Hall: “in a column written by managing editor Jason Lee Steorts, National Review apparently decided they didn’t want social conservatives — the third and largest leg of Reagan’s famed three-legged stool — to read their stuff anymore when they full-throated embraced the Rainbow Jihad.”
“And just like that a legacy marked by staring down Marxists both foreign and domestic is no more. National Review has been surrendered to America’s Cultural Marxists. So much for the legacy founded by the man who gave us God and Man at Yale.”
“That takes some serious selling out.”
This isn’t totally out of left field, though. Steorts began showing his true colors back in 2013 when he ran Mark Steyn – arguably one of the most courageous and entertaining conservatives of the last decade – out of National Review for daring to call the agenda of the Rainbow Jihad into question.
That agenda was still in its ‘How is my gay marriage going to affect your life?’ stage, but Steyn saw through the scam and said as much in his typically biting yet congenial way. Less than two years later we know Steyn to be a prophet, as businesses great and small are now forced to genuflect at the altar of homosexual hubris and pagan courts gone wild.
Rush Limbaugh: “National Review used to, indisputably, it was the voice of conservatism … Now, it’s not so much that, as it is the voice of Republicanism….”
http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/23/inside-game/#ixzz3fn4AAdOF
Have I missed some new trend that is is okay to misspell “huge”. I see it spelled, “yuge”, “hugh”, and couple of other ways.
Am I missing some catchy new thing only kids get?
Compare Trump and his defense of his remarks to Romney's walk-back of his 47% remark. Instead of walking back his remarks, Trump has doubled down.
All true,NRO is far from conservative, but Jonah is not exactly establishment either.
NONE OF WHICH is the point. The fact that Trump fans cannot, or will not, refute a single damned word, and instead focus on National Review....does indeed prove the very point of the article...which you are afraid to read and confront.
It’s childish to be consumed with people and personalities and avoid real questions.
I like the way Trump is throwing flames into the whole political process, and has both left and right howling like scorched cats. If it passes the point where it seems unhealthy for the Republic, then I’ll take note. But we are nowhere near that point yet.
More urgently note the enemy islamist øbama and his minions.
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