Posted on 01/22/2016 12:33:57 PM PST by Bratch
REMINDER – By now almost everyone has acknowledged that Donald Trump has ripped the masks from most of the modern professional punditry who espoused to be conservatives yet showed their hidden ideological colors as elite globalists.
In June millions of Fox News viewers saw FOX’s entire line-up of professional pundits proclaim borders shouldn’t matter; border walls won’t work; illegal alien amnesty was the only viable solution to decades of unenforced immigration law; and this was only in week #1 of Donald Trump’s campaign.
Since June ’15, on almost every issue those same pundits have now openly aligned themselves with GOPe agenda items like global trade, tax policy, big government spending, and advocacy to including advancement of Speaker Paul ‘Omnibus’ Ryan.
However, a sharp reader, DrudgeAddict, smartly points out these same voices were the exact group who gathered together in an exclusive meeting with President Obama in 2009 to sing his praises after the ’08 election. Including :
All in attendance. The post-meeting/dinner report in The New Yorker Magazine holds the following quotes told by the glowing participants of their time with President Obama:
Richard Lowry:“the only presidential candidate from either party about whom there is a palpable excitement”.
Charles Krauthammer: “Obama would be a president with the political intelligence of a Bill Clinton harnessed to the steely self-discipline of a Vladimir Putin”, who would “bestride the political stage as largely as did Reagan.”
Bill Kristol:“I look forward to Obama’s inauguration with a surprising degree of hope and good cheer.”
Larry Kudlow: “[Obama] loves to deal with both sides of the issue.” “He revels in the back and forth. And he wants to keep the dialogue going with conservatives.”
Indeed, it sounds like a joyful political love-fest amid the smitten beltway punditry in 2009.
So is it really a surprise to read or hear their current, and collective, opinion of the horribly unwashed pro-America vulgarian Trump?
Let’s review. Starting with the pundit who coined the term “vulgarian”, George Will:
George Will 2015: “Donald Trump Supporters Need To Come Into The Republican Party On Our Terms, Not Theirs” (link with video)
Rich Lowry 2015: “Look Trump attacks everyone but she’s become a much bigger target. And I think part of what’s going on here is that last debate. Let’s be honest, Carly cut his balls off with the precision of a surgeon“. (link with video)
Charles Krauthammer 2015: …”[…] And the pity is this: this is the strongest field of Republican candidates in 35 years. You could pick a dozen of them at random and have the strongest cabinet America has had in our lifetime, and instead, all of our time is spent discussing this rodeo clown.” (link)
Bill Kristol 2015: […] “I doubt I’d support Donald. I doubt I’d support the Democrat. I think I’d support getting someone good on the ballot as a third party candidate.” (link)
( Via Instapundit ) AUGUST 2015 […] GOP establishment is trying so hard to discredit Trump that they don’t seem to realize that they are angering a large portion of their own constituency, which is hungering for leadership and a willingness to openly defy P.C. norms. To paraphrase Hamlet, me thinks they dost protest too much, and it is beginning to backfire on them and cause them to take openly hypocritical positions.
Indeed, they are now taking the position that deporting illegal immigrants is wrong. Oh, how the establishment loves to talk tough on immigration when it suits its purposes of ginning up conservatives on election day. But when a candidate comes along who actually wants to do something about the issue–and isn’t afraid to defy political correctness to do so–the GOP establishment suddenly cries foul, and brands him a fool, dictator, or police state zealot. The necessary implication is that the GOP establishment is all hat, no cattle on immigration.
No wonder increasing numbers of those who self-identify as Republican now openly abhor the party, and it totters on the brink of implosion. (link)
“Trump actually registered as a Republican from independent in 2012, so he could vote for Romney in the new York Primary.”
In that context, please explain Post 12 ... It appears you are wrong.
It not only shows what party he was registered in, but also shows what ballot he was handed - IN EVERY CASE IT WAS A REPUBLICAN BALLOT.
Trump Wars Episode V : The Establisment Strikes Back
AGAIN that image depicts BOTH Trump’s voter REGISTRATION AND THE BALLOT HE WAS GIVEN - BOTH INDICATE REPUBLICAN ... SO YOU ARE WRONG in stating he voted for Obama ... Or, do you now wish to convince us that think Obama ran as a Republican?
I doubt it was NRO since that is the web version. I’m sure NR way back then preferred Rockefeller.
Great graphic!
These NR elites are all the “Sharptons and Jacksons” of the GOPe - they stir it up with no regard to philosophy or principles just to keep their snouts in the money trough.
Gulp, gulp; slurp, slurp.
It seemed like he was younger to me as well. It could be from 89-90, or even the early 90’s.
Obama had been well schooled to say whatever the media and anyone else what they wanted to hear. Remember in those day and after he was sworn in (?) even the comedians on the late shows wouldn’t say anything but how wonderful he was.
I think the term "charm offensive" applies. Obama, during the "honeymoon period", challenged their moral courage to say to his face what they had to know he was, and they fell short. The Man's Country thing, his Communist affinities and affiliations, even a videotape of the words coming out of Barack Obama's own mouth, speaking of and for himself in the first person, that "there is no such thing as a 'good' white person", were all known. Obama faced them down on the record, to rob them of their credibility.
Which is something Trump has helped engender (and Obama, with that early meeting to discredit the "conservative" e-GOP talking heads), which in turn starts me worrying afresh about that 45-minute preannouncement phone call between Trump and Satan himself, Bill Clinton.
(Some Missouri FReepers, when asked, explain that Claire McCaskill is simply Satan. Their misgivings aside, they're wrong. Satan is Bill Clinton.)
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