Posted on 01/22/2016 8:39:33 PM PST by Amntn
National Review's publication of the collective anti-Donald Trump missives from 22 self-appointed conservative potentates has caused quite a stir in Republican circles.
The nationwide responses range from, "Wait, I thought National Review went out of business years ago," to "Ed Meese? Seriously?"
The Gang of 22 have officially become parodies of themselves. One would have to reach back to the days of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew to lift an adequate quote to describe them.
"Nattering nabobs of negativism," "vicars of vacillation," "pusillanimous pussyfooters," "the decadent few," "ideological eunuchs," "the effete corps of impudent snobs," or "the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history" - take your pick, because they all apply about equally well to each and every one of them.
So clueless is the Gang of 22 they can't even see how they've stumbled right into the narrative Trump's been communicating so successfully for months. Just like the elected officials from both parties, the Gang of 22 has been GREAT at complaining about stuff, year, after year, after year.
But getting anything accomplished? Not so much.
Many of the Gang of 22 have been hanging around and chattering for decades, and some are active cogs in the Conservative Entertainment Complex, deriving their income by pandering to conservative anger while offering no real solutions.
Donald Trump represents a threat to these ineffectual poohbahs in the same way he represents a threat to do-nothing public officials.
Jealousy is also seriously at work here. Trump is inspiring and exciting a broad spectrum of the country like no member of the Gang of 22 ever has, or ever will.
In just seven months of campaigning, Trump already has more Americans listening to a Republican message than the entire Gang of 22 could muster over decades. Trump understands that before you can advance the ball, you have to convince people to take time from their busy lives to listen. No one on the GOP side since Ronald Reagan has accomplished that like Trump.
No one else has come close, and certainly no one from that "effete corps of impudent snobs" to which the National Review thinks we should defer.
The Gang of 22 had their chance. They've done a lot of bitching over the years, and it paid well for some.
But Americans care about results. They can plainly see that all of the empty talk from the Gang of 22 got us eight years of Barack Obama, and a loss in pretty much every conservative battle there was to lose.
At the same time when Americans look at Donald Trump's life they get a lot of assurance that here is finally a man who shares their focus on actually getting results. And Trump returns the respect by recognizing regular hard-working Americans are a lot smarter than any of the "ideological eunuchs" in all of their pontificating glory.
The "pusillanimous pussyfooters" love to nitpick Trump's words, but what voters are looking for this year is competence and accomplishment. Donald Trump has an actual record of delivering both in spades.
The Gang of 22 is right to be terrified. A President who could get things done would expose them as the irrelevant creatures they truly are.
It can't happen fast enough.
No, I think you may be a few cans short of a tree pack. You actually scare me a little.
Make that a three pack
Whether Cruz wins Iowa or not has no impact on what happens afterwards.
I see Gary Bauer has joined the loons for Cruz parade. That should cost him a few more points.
The reason the moral majority keeps losing is that the majority isn't.
After Trump, you are so used to metrosexual pajama boys, real men scare you.
I think you may be overstating your manliness just a bit. You come across more as a rosie o’donnell kind of scary.
Trump was a Romney supporter. And now he’s Romney II.
ROTFLMAO!
How is it that even Glenn Beck disagrees with you?
After Trump, you are so used to metrosexual pajama boys, real men scare you.
Wait wut?!
If anyone running is the type-A take-no-prisoners alpha male it is Trump.
He's Ted Nugent, the others are, well, not so much.
I think you may be overstating your manliness just a bit. You come across more as a rosie o’donnell kind of scary.
Hehe. I'm picturing somewhere between Bono and Shemp Smith.
( no offense meant Nick, but some days your posts are just so cuckoo, so upside down from reality that it is impossible not to say something )
**Applause** My reaction is very similar to yours; you stated it quite well.
You ought to take a look as to what DJT did with his, his family and his business.....there are tons of positive actions with positive results across the board,,,his fine family, kids, & grandkids, his fine businesses, that created thousands of jobs, his fine charity contributions and public service activities, etc. I know, I worked with the Trump organization when they put the “Trump Shuttle Airline together...and what a great loyal, dedicated team they all were, loving the boss, DJT!!!
I am not concerned about folks like you...because DJT will do just fine without you. And....I will tell you something else. When I joined the Goldwater movement way back in 1958, I believed in Barry Goldwater, as I later believed in Ronald Reagan.....but....I have had it with the whole Republican party including Ted Cruz. To me they are whores, who speak with forked tongue. I voted for McCain & Romney...both of them weak zeros. When many Freepers said they would not vote for them...I resisted and urged folks to support them...my mistake for trusting these failed, low life, weak fools (McCain & Romney)!!!
As for Mr. Cruz.....I voted in the Texas primary for him....before I moved to Florida. I would have voted for him in the general election...but I had moved to another state!!! But....when he did not renounce his Canadian citizenship until fifteen months ago...it raised a flag...that something was amiss with this dude...and I was right....concerning his loans versus his babblings about Wall street and the big banks!!! I do not want anymore of what Cruz & the GOP (E) is selling!!! Eight years of talk and no action to halt Obama & company from destroying our USA Republic!!! I will stick with my NY street boy, Donald Trump, and you can do as you wish!!! Time will tell who is correct!!!
BFL
BTTT
Trump, during his Red Socialist Period (2009): " I do agree with what they're doing with the banks. Whether they fund them or nationalize them, it doesn't matter, but you have to keep the banks going."
Trouble is, his poll numbers against weak Hillary and Old Bernie are completely unimpressive. Trump is feeble. Cruz, Carson, and Rubio consistently do significantly better than Trump. Rubio's margin over Clinton is 3X larger than Trump's thin lead. The non-Trump vote among Republicans is 60%. Why is that so consistent?
I agree. Trump wins, and the American Right will be dragged into Trump's big government philosophy. Which is to say, in the words of Here's to You Mrs. Robinson, "any way you look at it you lose."
Gary Bauer is a good guy.
It`s more about how the press reacts after Iowa, how they report who wins and what it means from their point of view.
The masses still are lead around by the nose by msm media.
If Trump wins there will be a frenzy and they will say he is unstoppable
If Cruz wins they will say hold the phone... Cruz needs the win more than Trump probably... but the dust will settle and Ted will have a shot at South Carolina.
Interesting who isn’t on the list.
. . .what voters are looking for this year is competence and accomplishment.Once upon a time, in 1988, a certain Democratic candidate thought that's what the voters were looking for, too. How did that work out for Michael the Carcass? And why on earth are presumed Republican supporters of an aspiring Republican presidential candidate deploying antique Democratic talking points on his behalf? (Or are they admitting tacitly that yeah, we know he's a Democrat in all but name but let's not get technical about it, he's our Democrat in all but name?)
On the other hand, on another thread running down the National Review hoopla was a poster, a Trump supporter, saying, and I quote, "There's a time for heady debates about the Constitution. A Presidential campaign isn't one." (Could that be another tacit admission---an admission that in such a Constitutional debate, heady or otherwise, Mr. Trump would be buried alive, but quit talking about the Constitution, dummy, and start making America great again?)
Danger, Will Robinson . . .
Trump is proving the conventional wisdom wrong with each win.
The next conventional wisdom that is wrong is that Iowa will be close. It won’t. Trump wins by at least 10% over Cruz.
Then we will break down the next obstacle. Let’s talk after Feb 1!
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