Posted on 01/22/2016 7:55:24 AM PST by Clint N. Suhks
Donald Trump leads the polls nationally and in most states in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. There are understandable reasons for his eminence, and he has shown impressive gut-level skill as a campaigner. But he is not deserving of conservative support in the caucuses and primaries. Trump is a philosophically unmoored political opportunist who would trash the broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP in favor of a free-floating populism with strong-man overtones.
Trump’s political opinions have wobbled all over the lot. The real-estate mogul and reality-TV star has supported abortion, gun control, single-payer health care à la Canada, and punitive taxes on the wealthy. (He and Bernie Sanders have shared more than funky outer-borough accents.) Since declaring his candidacy he has taken a more conservative line, yet there are great gaping holes in it.
His signature issue is concern over immigration — from Latin America but also, after Paris and San Bernardino, from the Middle East. He has exploited the yawning gap between elite opinion in both parties and the public on the issue, and feasted on the discontent over a government that can’t be bothered to enforce its own laws no matter how many times it says it will (President Obama has dispensed even with the pretense). But even on immigration, Trump often makes no sense and can’t be relied upon. A few short years ago, he was criticizing Mitt Romney for having the temerity to propose “self-deportation,†or the entirely reasonable policy of reducing the illegal population through attrition while enforcing the nation’s laws. Now, Trump is a hawk’s hawk.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Translation: “Cuck, cuck, cuck. Cuck, cuck. Cuck! Cuckedy, cuck cuck.”
NR - the quest for relevance among Shiite Conservatives. You must pass a 120 point checklist on positions to qualify.
An assortment of loons and neocons.
Finally, the conservatives are starting to fight back!
The only clown missing from this bunch was Glen Beck.
Absolutely correct... these people are part of the problem... the High and Mighty “Conservativesâ€... the do-nothing GOP-e . The ones who force McCain, Dole and Romney down our throats. The ones who, when in control of both the Senate and the House, rubberstamp and enable the progressive Obama agenda.
They are all uniting in opposition to the new sheriff in town... misery loves company.
To paraphrase a quote from “Meet Joe Blackâ€...
...Quit blowing smoke up each other’s ass. It will ruin your autopsy.
ESAD, GOP-e.
Show me the alternative NR.
Who else is in favor of borders, language and culture (thanks M. Weiner), that is as capable?
Or in this instance pass a single one. One day Trump passes at least one the next not so much.
Let’s not pretend he is or ever has been a conservative. Thank goodness collective voices are banding together and calling it for what it is.
Is Sowell now a tool of the GOPe? Is that what we are saying?
Or in this instance pass a single one. One day Trump passes at least one the next not so much.
Let’s not pretend he is or ever has been a conservative. Thank goodness collective voices are banding together and calling it for what it is.
Is Sowell now a tool of the GOPe? Is that what we are saying?
This is true for MOST of the Republicans in the House and Senate, ESPECIALLY the leadership of both bodies.
I do not recollect this being an issue with the National Review, even after 2014, and the failure to even pass and submit legislation to defund/repeal Obamacare, investigate and prosecute Fast and Furious, the IRS political destruction of conservative non-profit groups, the failure to defend our people at Benghazi and knowingly lie about its cause as a online video, the criminal corruption in our VA hospitals, and the Unconstitutional over-reach of Obama's executive orders and actions.
None, nada, nicht, zilch. National Review didn't care.
They never said a word against pro-amnesty Republicans, fed and enriched by the Chamber of Commerce Cheap Labor Express, and how this presents a clear and present danger to the security of the United States, and the abandonment of our overall conservative respect for the rule of law.
So I got it now, due to their "mighty and unwavering support of conservative principles and values", they're against Trump.
Too late, RINOs. Please don't speak about conservative support when YOU are NO conservatives.
Two thoughts
How many people in Iowa or NH read this magazine?
Trump certainly has a way of exposing peoples true colors.
“Let’s not pretend he is or ever has been a conservative. “
Definition? All 120 points required?
Trump to me is a moderate nationalist. Just what we need now.
That's pretty weak. You're come across like a monkey slinging poop. Why don't you try refuting some of it?
“There are understandable reasons for his eminence, and he has shown impressive gut-level skill as a campaigner. But he is not deserving of conservative support in the caucuses and primaries. “
People that sat on their asses for 5 months, perfectly happy to use Trump to take care of the GOPe candidates, demolish the media, scare the crap out of the Democrats, and inspire millions to start being hopeful about this nation again, only to then expect him to just vanish...
DONT DESERVE OUR VOTES.
Like just who the living hell do these people think they are? We dont take orders from pencil-pushers that have appointed themselves our betters.
You clowns had all of the opportunity to take every position Trump did all last summer and fall, and instead were perfectly fine with him taking those positions, taking the heat, and reaping the rewards!
But now they want to make emotional appeals to switch over to this other guy, because he checks off the right boxes....not that he made much of an effort, constantly requires bloggers to run protection for him, and doesn’t draw the support, just that he checks off the right boxes.
And you wonder why Trump is so dominant? Of course they do, because they are still too arrogant to get it.
Trump gets the Chris McDaniel treatment for all to see openly. This is perfect!
Glenn Beck is the first one listed.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination
Was Medved on this list? He was talking up Kasich like mad yesterday on his program, and saying Trump would get to the convention with few delegates. What is Kasich at now, 3% or something?
What’s the matter with these people?!
He doesn’t pass a single check on this imaginary 120 point conservative list. Have you seen who all wrote this article? Some are questionable but the vast majority have been some of the strongest voices of conservative thought. One of which is Sowell. Are we just closing our eyes and chanting Trump Trump without any thought to what these writers are conveying? To just discount these conservative voices is to say conservatism is now dead, we will now back the “moderate” Obama cast himself as a “moderate” during the general. How’d that work out for us?
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