Is that real or a something from The People's Cube?
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.
And the right friends! Bob Dole, Mitch McConnell, Hill and Bill... /s
Bloomberg’s John Heilemann said the same thing....that National RINO Review just gave Trump the best “In Kind” donation, they could have given anyone!
LOL....NRO backfire FAIL!!!
Best article I have read in a long time.
Thanks for finding and posting.
Crap, cannot get more pravda-esque than that.
That’s ridiculous. The primary hadn’t even started.
I’m glad I know about Cloward-Piven, Saul Alinsky and Pigford, which I didn’t know about 8 years ago, despite my previous 8 years of FR education. I have Glen Beck to thank for that.
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 not even see how they have stumbled right into the narrative Trump 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.
How an Obscure Adviser to Pat Buchanan Predicted the Wild Trump Campaign in 1996
The Week dot com ^ | Michael Brendan Dougherty
Posted on 1/20/2016, 2:17:11 AM by WayneLusvardi
Imagine giving this advice to a Republican presidential candidate: What if you stopped calling yourself a conservative and instead just promised to make America great again?
What if you dropped all this leftover 19th-century piety about the free market and promised to fight the elites who were selling out American jobs?
What if you just stopped talking about reforming Medicare and Social Security and instead said that the elites were failing to deliver better healthcare at a reasonable price?
What if, instead of vainly talking about restoring the place of religion in society something that appeals only to a narrow slice of Middle America. You simply promised to restore the Middle American core, the economic and cultural losers of globalization to their rightful place in America?
What if you said you would re store them as the chief clients of the American state under your watch, being mindful of their interests when regulating the economy or negotiating trade deals?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3385923/posts
Trump was a Romney supporter. And now he’s Romney II.
Amen! When Trump is president, these hacks- & quite a few more like them, will be out of a job. Maybe they can find something productive to do with their lives. For a change.
With Glenn ‘crazy’ Beck leading the charge. Did anyone listen to his show today to assess his state of mind?
AMEN and AMEN!!!
This election is over and Trump is the winner and there isn't anything anyone can do about it...
We, the American Voters have been saying this is OUR election because we knew what type of person Trump is, you can't get to where that man is about knowing what your doing, and all Trump had to do was pull back the curtains on the government and the crooks and thieves and give them the rope and they just hung themselves!!!
This is the American Way of Life, you mess with the people of America and we will UNITE and WE will take you DOWN!!!
GO.TRUMP.GO!!! ALL THE WAY TO THE OVAL OFFICE!!!
Did the ‘22’ really think we were going to line up like a bunch of frightened penguins and follow their Pied Piper (Jeb!) back to Loser-Ville?. Think again. There’s a new Sheriff in town, and he doesn’t like Vichy RINOs!.
There have been notable revolutions in history. This election is a new paradigm/revolution re our voting choice for president. The GOPe cartel is panicking that we will pick our president not them.
We finally get to pick our candidate. not a cartel of elite Beltway Ivy Leaguers picking our candidate. An evil cartel, which has zero interest in America, us and our families. They only care about maintaining their power and control. They are terrified that we will pick our candidate and ignore their rants and ill advise.
Just wait 'til Mrs. Cruz appears---she is the expert on complex derivatives, and "free trade" (which is WTO code words for America gets screwed, can't get their goods into other countries, while the banks and crony capitalists send our jobs to these foreign countries, and what jobs remain in America are filled with the likes of the ONE HALF MILLION H1-B visas on Cruz's agenda, and wages and lifestyles of the USA are intentionally lowered to that of turd world countries.) Folks, H1-B is the GOOD jobs, the computer techie, business professional, engineer---and there are thousands of unemployed Americans in every city who are overqualified, who'd gladly accept the job, but instead Cruz wants to give the 500,000 jobs to INDIANS, then make the Americans who are LOSING their jobs TRAIN their India replacements.
Mr. and Mrs. Cruz are GLOBALISTS. We conservatives believe that if we don't have a border, we don't have a nation, as Mr. Trump says in every speech.
First time caller Alex. Honestly- I have not read all the posts in this thread, but I am going to reply. Romney- Me? did not want/did not vote. Ryan- elected by his peers to be Speaker. Now- justification for why MILLIONS of Americans are fleeing from the GOP, and running into the arms of DJ Trump. Ryan = GOPe. GOPe = business as usual.
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