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A Clarifying Moment for Conservatism (Purge Trump & Trumpism)
Commentary ^ | 08/14/2015 | Peter Wehner

Posted on 08/16/2015 12:44:47 PM PDT by nhwingut

In a compelling column, George Will – who knows a thing or two about conservatism – makes the conservative case against Donald Trump. Mr. Will refers to Trump as an “unprecedentedly and incorrigibly vulgar presidential candidate” who is coarsening our civic life. He labels Trump “a counterfeit Republican and no conservative.” And he argues that Trump is an affront to anyone devoted to the legacy of William F. Buckley, Jr., the founder of National Review and a giant in American conservatism. Just as Buckley excommunicated the John Birch Society from the conservative movement in the 1960s, so should conservatives today stand up to Trump and Trumpism.

Fortunately there are conservative commentators who are doing just that, including Bill Bennett, David Brooks, Mona Charen, Charles C.W. Cooke, Michael Gerson, Jonah Goldberg, Victor Davis Hanson, Charles Krauthammer, Matt Lewis, Rich Lowry, Michael Medved, Paul Mirengoff, Dana Perino, John Podhoretz, Karl Rove, Jennifer Rubin, Kevin Williamson, regular contributors to this web site (among them Max Boot, Noah Rothman and Jonathan Tobin), editorial page writers for the Wall Street Journal and others.

(Excerpt) Read more at commentarymagazine.com ...


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You can cherish and champion conservative principles, or you can support and praise Donald Trump. But you can’t do both.

These people have totally lost it.
1 posted on 08/16/2015 12:44:47 PM PDT by nhwingut
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To: nhwingut

Will! Get back on those meds.


2 posted on 08/16/2015 12:46:06 PM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: nhwingut

George Will supported Obama in 2008.


3 posted on 08/16/2015 12:46:13 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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To: nhwingut

Screw the RINOs!!

Go, Trump, GO!!


4 posted on 08/16/2015 12:46:37 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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>>In a compelling column, George Will – who knows a thing or two about conservatism...

...and he decided that he hates it.


5 posted on 08/16/2015 12:46:53 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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Commentary Magazine has been hysterically anti-Trump for months.

Can’t see why.


6 posted on 08/16/2015 12:47:56 PM PDT by Jim Noble (You walk into the room like a camel and then you frown)
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George Will, whose wife works for Walker, is so biased he is not credible to even comment.

FU GOPe!!!!!!


7 posted on 08/16/2015 12:50:40 PM PDT by datura
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It’s a terrifying time for the GOPee.


8 posted on 08/16/2015 12:51:31 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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I would not go so far as to call George Will a conservative. He is a moderate. The leftists are so far left that from way out there in left field George Will might look like a righty. To a real conservative he looks like a lefty.


9 posted on 08/16/2015 12:52:42 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: nhwingut

I say we Trump the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.


10 posted on 08/16/2015 12:52:44 PM PDT by Company Man (Trump towers.)
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>>It’s a terrifying time for the GOPee.

It always is when the po folks down on the plantation decide to rise up.

It will be even scarier when it happens to the Democrats.


11 posted on 08/16/2015 12:53:20 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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>> Commentary Magazine has been hysterically anti-Trump for months. Can’t see why.

They are a (*cough cough* *rand paul*) libtard ‘zine.


12 posted on 08/16/2015 12:54:09 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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That is very startling. Did he actually write anything supporting the Great Pretender at that time?


13 posted on 08/16/2015 12:54:37 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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George Will – who knows a thing or two about conservatism – makes the conservative case against ____


Fill in the blank. The idea of George Will making the conservative case against anything is completely ludicrous.

It would be like the Ayotolla of Iran making the Christian case for _____

Fill in the blank.


14 posted on 08/16/2015 12:55:07 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump/Cruz '16)
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I haven’t been so excited since Reagan. Trump is saying all the right things.

Never watched his realty show, didn’t much like him on Fox, but he’s got my attention now. I am fed up with the career politicians in this country.


15 posted on 08/16/2015 12:55:13 PM PDT by FR_addict (Boehner needs to go!)
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Fortunately there are conservative commentators who are doing just that, including Bill Bennett, David Brooks, Mona Charen, Charles C.W. Cooke, Michael Gerson, Jonah Goldberg, Victor Davis Hanson, Charles Krauthammer, Matt Lewis, Rich Lowry, Michael Medved, Paul Mirengoff, Dana Perino, John Podhoretz, Karl Rove, Jennifer Rubin, Kevin Williamson


First off many of these people are not conservatives.

Second many of them are employees of The Cheap Labor Express:

Karl Rove
Michael Medved
Dana PeRINO
Jebbifer Rubin
Matt Lewis
David Brooks
Charles Krauthammer

for sure, and I have suspicions about some of the others.
Anyone who advocates for “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” is NOT a conservative. Abandoning the rule of law is the opposite of conservative.


16 posted on 08/16/2015 12:55:37 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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Commentary Magazine has been hysterically anti-Trump for months. Can’t see why.

Maybe because Trump is a blowhard and a poseur whose style may should be adopted, but not most of his positions (whatever they happen to be at a given moment).

17 posted on 08/16/2015 12:57:10 PM PDT by Stepan12 (Our present appeasementof Islam is the Stockholm Syndrome on steroids.)
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I wonder why they don’t have anything to say about immigration policy paper?

Weren’t they all begging for it.

Now they have it and....crickets.

Lol.


18 posted on 08/16/2015 12:57:22 PM PDT by Melinator (my 2 cents)
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19 posted on 08/16/2015 12:57:34 PM PDT by GoneSalt (+NooB+"I STAND WITH DONALD TRUMP-HE'S TERRIFIC-HE'S BRASH-HE SPEAKS THE TRUTH"~TED CRUZ~)
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To: AmericanVictory

Google: George Will Obama support 2008


20 posted on 08/16/2015 12:58:13 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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