That is absolutely true. The question is whether any of it makes a difference to voters on the fence.
70% or so don’t support DT. Is it possible that as their candidates drop out they will not go DT?
One third of primary voters want Trump, 2/3 don’t...but that 2/3 is fractured among multiple ‘Pub candidates. The liberal/moderate cum squishy populist may win by a series of pluralities. Massive buyers’ remorse to follow when they realize they’ve nominated and perhaps elected White Obama.
This is a good article, well worth following the link. Agree or disagree, D’Souza is always interesting. He gives several positive reasons for Trump’s popularity.
was the jbs anti-Semitic?
No because we don’t know who’s where. After giving the Republicans the majority in 2014, they have done nothing. Absolutely nothing. None of them are conservatives. Trump would be better than anyone of the so called conservatives in congress. Why? Because you can always find on their record of votes where they strayed from true conservatism.
If FR is anything to go by, Cruz & Trump supporters are dug in and are not going to move. But Dinesh really gets it!
Trump needs to be grilled on his position for or against an Article V Convention of States to radically limit the size, scope and power of all branches of the Federal govt. If his knowledge of the Constitution is as limited as his Bible knowledge, that will be troubling.
National Review used to be on my list of yearly contributions. Only $25 but I’ll save that that this year. Sorry I gave to them in December. They could have warned me they were coming out with this article.
National Review is like the boy who cried wolf.
Over the past years and election cycles they’ve blown their credibility.
It is exactly because of people who wrote these articles (with exceptions like Thomas Sowell) that Trump gained so much traction. It is a reaction against the GOPe and NR crowd.
So how could their anti-Trump issue do anything but reinforce to Trump supporters that they are right?
I supported Trump for a while. He won me over til he started impugning Cruz’ integrity and I found out he is a Soros associate.
Trump is not the guy we need. But this NR crowd isn’t either and their arguments are not good.
The libs and RINOs don't seem to understand that most of Trump's supporters can actually think for themselves and don't need "groupthink" or a bunch of pseudo intellectuals to tell us how to think.
Not everyone follows links. So another excerpt from Newsmax and D’Souza:
“D’Souza said there are three reasons for Trump’s broad-based appeal.
“Number one, he’s the most politically incorrect man in America. That’s appealing. The other Republicans always seem to hold a little back, Trump holds nothing back.
Number two, he’s a Republican candidate for president who’s not scared of being rich. Really important,” he said.
“Look at [Mitt] Romney, who is like so defensive about making money. He allowed the Obama attacks to wear him down. Trump [says], ‘I’m rich, in fact I’m richer than you think and I’m proud of it.’ Very positive.
“The third thing is that Trump is willing to go where other Republicans aren’t. I mean people feel like if Trump is elected, he’ll lift up all the stones and the Obama administration look under them. We’ll find out all the stuff that’s been going on behind closed doors. The other Republicans won’t do that.”’
That is from D’Souza.
Personally, I am skeptical on the third point. People may feel that way, as claimed, but people may be wrong here. While Democrats like to prosecute/persecute those with whom they disagree, Republicans choose to move on. I expect Donald of the deal, will move on also. Sorry.
These so-called conservative pundits never united in any
kind of an effort to light a fire under the panty waist
GOP congressional leadership. We should listen to them now?
The train has left the station. Support for Trump has
snowballed to the point where disenfranchised Democrats
are starting to give him a hard look. The National Review
would be better served by advising Trump rather than
carpet bombing his candidacy. Hold Trump’s feet to the
conservative fire is what the publication should be doing
even though they can’t seem to do the same when it comes
to the GOP congress.
When the torch and pitchfork crowd is dragging you out
of town you should run to the front of the procession
and pretend that you are leading a parade. Instead, the
National Review thinks that they are relevant enough to
stem the tide.
I wish someone - anyone!!! - would address the whole “intellectual conservatives weighing in” aspect.
Are we that far gone, that we consider Glenn Beck and Dana Loesch to be intellectuals? LOL. Oh my sides.
Someone should be mentioning THAT — scraping the bottom of the barrel to find people willing to throw themselves under the bus for NRO. Oh my sides, again.
We know DC elites are taking bribes, selling us out and wholesale lying... AND we know Trump will take a look at it - and share what's he's found.
As usual, D’Souza is right on target.
Another excerpt. I think there is a real take-away message here. From Dinesh:
“... there is a common denominator. They are the two ultimate outsiders of the Republican Party because Cruz has alienated much of the establishment. Trump is no member of the establishment.
So there’s not a secret that the inner inside guys are doing really poorly. Ben Carson was doing pretty well, even though he came out of nowhere. So this should be a real message to the RNC that you guys have messed things up very badly.
It should be a real message to the Republican Congress, you’ve been in charge for the last couple of years, what have you done?”
In the last week I have watched Freerepublic morph into the National Review. Undermining and attempting to destroy the front runner, and promoting a candidate (Cruz), that cannot win the general election. This will guarantee a Democrat wins the White House. The purists and thumpers do not seem to care, that this will be the outcome. The Elites thank you.