Convince me I wrong.
Convince you you’re wrong?
No, just go vote for Romney or whoever... Leave the dirty work to us.
trump has no constitutional compass.
Nonsense. Producer v. parasite, non-politician v. politician.
He’s already said yes to ethanol and wind subsidies and his supporters don’t have the stones to vet their boy.
Cooke, Geraghty, Goldberg, Benson, the Four Horsemen of the Anti-Trump Apocalypse. Sorry, they have been haters from day one. The defeated Walker bitterness bubbles up again.
And it's more than a bit rich for NR to posture themselves as conservative crusaders when they are the very epitome of the GOPe that has betrayed us at every single turn
You can measure a man by the enemies he makes, and so far Trump is making all the right enemies; just like the Tea Party I might add.
If you think Yeb would be better have at it
You can't be convinced but you do make a good case for planned parenthood.
With the US and most of the world in conflict with radical Islam, is a federal database of US Muslims really so out of line? Such databases are already no doubt available for commercial purposes, so why would a federal database be so objectionable?
During the Cold War, US conservatives -- including National Review -- strongly supported stringent internal security measures and disagreed with the eventual voiding of many of them by the US Supreme Court. One of Bill Buckley's earliest books was even a robust defense of Joe McCarthy -- a position that Buckley never repudiated.
Notably, a wartime FDR even approved the internment of Japanese immigrants and their citizen offspring due to well-founded internal security concerns. Radio intercepts showed that a dozen or so Japanese spy and sabotage rings were operating on the US west coast and the FBI was unable to locate them. The internment of the Japanese though shut every one of them down.
Yet in fact Trump did not call for a database of Muslims or for the internment of Muslims, and the larger point is what kind of President Donald Trump would be. Trump, a New Yorker to the core, would be much like the last Republican President from New York -- Teddy Roosevelt -- in his zest for controversy, assertion of American national interest, and build up of military strength.
In domestic policy, unlike Teddy Roosevelt, Trump's business background would put him on the side of growth, jobs, low taxes, and free markets. On Obamacare, Trump is like other GOP candidates: get rid of it. There is no sound basis on which to think that Trump would disregard the constitution -- unlike the US Supreme Court, which seems to do so regularly.
Is there anything about Trump to worry over? Well, like Teddy Roosevelt in his day, the GOP establishment hates him, and he is not from within the conservative clubhouse.
On the plus side, these attributes and Trump's outsize personality have made inroads among blue collar Democrats, Blacks, and Hispanics. Most of all, Trump opposes illegal immigration and means it. This a winning issue politically and a fight that must be won if the US is to survive as a self-governing constitutional republic.
Otherwise, the massive tide of immigration and coming fiscal crisis will tilt the country Left more or less permanently. With the GOP establishment dominated by cheap labor interests determined on an open borders policy, the anti-establishment Trump may well be the best hope we have, not just for winning in 2016, but for being able to win at all in coming elections.
We are all in the Database. All of us.
We get on no fly lists for this or that and then come off of it.
You won’t consider anyone else, and that is admirable. I want a street fighter, and that’s Trump. He has his OWN money. That right there is good enough for me, along with the fact that EVERYONE in DC, the media, and the Shadow Government/Soros want to crush him-which tells us not only what they want (destroying the US), but also who he is in fighting them.
I believe he is our last chance.
Do I admire Cruz? Yes. Do I think Cruz can win? No. Furthermore, Cruz would have to deal with the Congress, and his arguments would fall flat, simply on political grounds. Besides, Cruz isn’t a street fighter, a mensch who’ll get his hands in the mud to fight his opponents. This saddens me, too, because his cowboy boots could use some mud.
Nowhere in his rhetoric will you find any reference to America's pre-existing cultural and legal traditions, or to the necessary bounds that free men insist be imposed upon the state. There is no talk of "freedom"; no reflexive grounding of ideas in the Declaration and the Federalist Papers; no conceptual explanation or underlying philosophy. There is nothing, except will to power [i.e., his preoccupation with poll numbers]I wish the Trump supporters would put the pom-poms down for a minute and think about this.By his own admission, Trump's are the politics of doing enthusiastically what works in the moment [he's not principled but a pragmatist, i.e., Kelo]; of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt; of the administrative state and of bureaucratic expertise; of the Prussians and the French and the Singaporeans. Whatever he might claim before his adoring crowds, Trump is not in fact an antidote to Barack Obama. He is his parallel.
It's sobering.
Trump has done some good things, including giving the other candidates a spine, but we need a principled, intelligent, courageous president with a solid track record, like Cruz.
How did this tripe ever make it to National Review?
This is fourth grade level stuff—my, how R has fallen!
As for convincing you otherwise, that will never happen.
You scraped the literary bottom of the barrel to find this hit piece, which totally fits your skewed world view of things.
We get that you do not like Trump.
I just wish you would stop polluting FR with these incessantly inane posts that showcase your Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Another person I thought had some brains and made sense....but is dumb as rocks.
I don’t think these pundits realize that any republican candidate must also fight the press. Trump is putting them on the defense every chance he gets.
Instead of writing about “thin skinned” Trump why not point out the cheap shot press, and while you’re at the cheap shot artists like Flacid Jeb Bush.
Exactly how does one convince a foaming at the mouth lunatic that they're wrong???? The insane person doesn't realize he (or she) is insane - they think they are doing just fine and dandy in the sense department and don't notice the dark flickers behind the eyes or the foamy bubble on the lips that sane people see in them.
Now for a short public service announcement to all on FR:
I prefer Cruz and my money goes to his campaign, hence the Cruz link. If you like someone else, donate to him/her (find your own link to do it) and if you use FR and don't donate, then please don't complain about the welfare leeches or those who have Obama Phones because, functionally, you are no different than any other FReeloader
PS - If you are one of those who cannot afford even a small donation to FR or a candidate, God Bless and happy FReeping!.....
GO CRUZ!! Keep it up Trump!!
POTUS Trump will use “no” often.
Trump defies traditional models and is impossible to pigeon hole. I hunger for “fundamental change” in the direct opposite direction of Obama.
Predicting specifics of this or that policy is pointless. I trust the mans fervent desire for America to be a “winner” once again. And I have confidence that Trump and I have similar ideas of what that means.
I forgive him everything as long as he shuts the border, kicks out illegals and negotiates well with our allies and adversaries. It looks to me that he will.
Most of cooks stuff are arguments about how trump handled crap sandwich questions.
[Convince me I wrong.]
You drove by and dropped that off so fast to convince you of anything but...’I will be looking into that’.
I think I’m voting for Ted Cruz after hearing Trump support ethanol, wind power and govt. college subsidies at the same Iowa event.
Love Trump but I’m starting to wear down with this stuff.
Didn’t Trump raise his hand when asked if he would forgo pledging to support the eventual Republican nominee? I for one like the idea of a strong leader who is willing to listen. The evidence so far is that he listening to Coulter and Sessions. Immigration (sic) is the ONLY issue that matters in this election.
You’ve made up your mind about Trump. It’s not my job to convince you otherwise. Every hit piece posted, every Bill Kristol, every George Will, every poll supposedly showing Trump has peaked only make it plain to me that my vote for Donald Trump is well placed.