Posted on 11/03/2015 8:01:03 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Why are so many conservative voters attracted to Donald Trump?
Pundits have been scratching their heads trying to figure out why people on the right would back someone who is conservative on neither economic nor social issues, someone who addresses the concerns of neither the low-tax crowd nor the moral traditionalists.
What they overlook is the third – and most important – leg of the conservative stool: robust American nationalism. Few voters really care that much about small government or free-market economics, as compelling as the case for them is. More important are moral issues like abortion and natural marriage and religious liberty, but even that cluster of concerns represents only a part of the reason people identify as conservatives.
I’d submit that underlying everything else, Republican primary voters are patriots and nationalists. With the post-1968 Democratic party’s rejection of American patriotism, they have nowhere else to go; in our two-party system, there’s no space for a UKIP-style party to establish itself. This lack of options is something the post-American, anti-borders nomenklatura of the GOP has counted on.
But in the primaries, there is an option, a way for Republican voters to rebel against the contempt of their betters.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
We just want someone that will kick ass and take names!
“I’ “ ’ “I’ “ ’ “I’ “ ’ “I’ “ ’ “I’ “ ’ “I’ “ ’ “I’ “ ’ “I’ “ ’
Has anyone read or been told when this above crap is going to stop?????
It really is bad.
“Pundits have been scratching their heads trying to figure out why people on the right would back someone who is conservative on neither economic nor social issues, someone who addresses the concerns of neither the low-tax crowd nor the moral traditionalists.”
IT’S CALLED A WALL!
Yep, it is gawdawful. Can’t stand it.
National RINO Review still not getting it...still trying to appear relevant. LOL!
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All FR Trump articles of 11:00 pm EST 11/3/15:
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Donald Trump: 'I'm a Job Machine,' Will Win the Hispanic Vote and White House
We Went to Donald Trump's Latest Book Signing and It Was Insane
Donald Trump Lists His Debate Demands: Cash, Two Hours
Another Trump Tour de Force Presser
GMA anchor Lara Spencer posts photo hugging Donald Trump
Giddy Drive-Bys Bury Trump (Again) [Limbaugh]
Ben Carson Takes Lead From Trump in New WSJ/NBC Poll
Carson Plummets After Debate (Trump 31-15)
NBC Faces Mounting Pressure to Fire Trump as 'SNL' Host, But Ratings Are King
I'm guessing the character set on the database for Freerepublic's website needs to be changed to use the utf-8 charset
You have to go back and physically remove all apostrophes before you post a copy and paste article.
I’m resding Trump’s new book now. Go, Donald!
It only shows up like that when you copy and paste.
If you go through and delete and then type in the quote marks, apostrophes, etc. before posting it will post correctly.
Looks like it might be all punctuation.
I really like Trump...the only thing that kinda annoys me..is when he talks about Obama, he says that ‘I really thought he was gonna at least be a cheerleader for the country...he fooled me”...really Donald?...any body that did a fraction of a background check on this punk could see he was a America hating communist. Might as well as elected Al Sharpton...im still in shock he got elected twice.
He isn’t a classic conservative. But this time out national sovereignty is front and center. If you don’t have that the rest doesn’t matter.
He stepped up and owned that issue when everyone else was gingerly poking at it with a stick. Unless some of the others get over their fear of the issue and the press-lynching that comes with it, Trump is going to win this one, and big.
If you think about it, being the cheerleader of our nation is the most basic thing that our president should be. What Trump is saying here is that Obama hasn’t even met the most absolute basic thing every president should.
This would be the most easy instinctive thing for anyone to do as president. It should come naturally.
This is one of the most stinging insults Trump could level at Obama. It implies he got nothing right, not even this.
It’s a classy way to completely eviscerate Obama, who probably has no idea how completely he is being insulted.
Don’t dismiss it.
Just try typing some umlauts and see what happens.
:D
It's called illegal immigration and bringing jobs back to America.
Who cares how low your tax rate is if you don't have a tax base from which to draw it?
Who cares how pro-life or anti-gay fascism you are, when illegal immigrants by the millions elect supermajorities of Democrats?
Well, yeah, duh.
The GOPe understands this, they just think that they can railroad us....again. The Donald is showing differently.
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