Posted on 01/22/2016 10:38:17 AM PST by Albion Wilde
No, I don't even watch Fox, or much TV at all any more. I just read FR for the news. Last week I watched one thing on NPT, plus a couple of comedies via the internet. That was it for the week!
I certainly hope so.
Yes, this analysis is very well written - congratulations.
Personally, I find it amusing to hear/read that, because I am willing to consider Trump in the face of the end of the Republic, I am, variously, a fool, an ignoramus, a faux conservative, an idol worshipper, a flip-flopper, an emotional, angry, non-thinker, et al.
What I am is an independent thinker who has been deceived and betrayed too many times by the Establishment; I am willing to consider that Trump might actually do something instead of nothing.
(I realize that the Terrible Twenty-Two care naught for such as I, but I do not at all fit their self-serving characterization [or should I say, character assassination] of “Trumpsters”: I have a documented IQ well into the so-called genius range, and am a lifelong conservative. I do not choose a candidate casually or unthinkingly.)
I worked for Newt, was a delegate to my state convention for him. And I’m not favoring Trump at all, Donald is down there with Bush below spot#10 in my opinion.
I will vote for him should he get the nomination, he’s better than his former co-conspirator Hillary, or Bernie, but I do not trust him. I could be wrong, perhaps time will tell, I just don’t want to take the chance. Promises about the future are very easy to make, and with Trump, who changes views like he changes socks, that’s all we have to go on: Words and contradictions.
Skipped it.
How'd you get so smart? :-)
Me too.
Same here! It was like nails on the chalkboard seeing this in my mailbox over and over.
Amen to that!
:-)
Pointing out that Cruzers SCREAM THEIR ARGUMENTS IN CAPITAL LETTERS is not actually an ad hominem attack because it is not an attack against the person, but rather an attack on the mode of argument. Pointing out that screaming loudly is an empty rhetorical device is not an empty rhetorical device, it is an argument.
Now, if you want to make a real argument, go ahead and make one, in minuscules please, so we can read it and understand your argument, rather than the fact that YOU ARE SCREAMING AT US IN A RAISED VOICE SO WE CANNOT HEAR WHAT YOU ARE SAYING.
“Few of today’s regular contributors except perhaps for Dennis Prager”
Well there’s part of the problem. Dennis knows that he is a 1960s Cold War liberal and for years he used to correct his listeners who insisted that he is a conservative.
He’s not, never was. He’s a liberal who is friendly with conservatives. The problem with National Review is that it is loaded with old style liberals masquerading as conservatives. It laughingly publishes Charles Krauthammer, who was helping Walter Mondale try to defeat Ronald Reagan’s second term.
This has been one of the best election seasons of my lifetime. Trump is a force of nature, even if he only has served to point up the issues. I hope for more.
Winning the nomination is not winning the election.
Show me the numbers demonstrating that Trump will do especially well in November.
You shouldn't have any trouble finding them, just look up Donald's loudly Trumpeted polls, and then run your finger across to the general election. He's a weak candidate, the least likely to win among the top 4 vying for the nomination. So he is certainly less viable by his own favored measurement --the polls.
You’re probably wise.
Now, I happen to be a big fan of WFB, Jr. and his sibbling Fergus [Reid] Buckley. But for the Buckley sibblings to conclude that others are demagogues and narcissists is rich fare for some of us.
Didn’t his liberal son take over? Hook a turbine up to Williams’s grave. He can power the Eastern seaboard for a couple of generations.
Fair enough
But the cast of characters after Trump are almost same took out Newt
But they will fail this time
Pretty funny!
Well, I had a drink in a bar in Lambertville, New Jersey with the brother John Buckley, and he was a pretty nice guy. I was very young and dressed up for a date. He gave me a stock tip. I had barely the cab fare to get home; but it gave me a little laugh at myself, and a peek into how the rich get richer.
“National Review started to really take a dive when it lost Mark Steyn!”
“Lost” Mark Steyn, or drove him out? The post-Reagan NR has a history of driving off some of its best people.
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