Posted on 02/15/2016 5:12:56 PM PST by icwhatudo
Here we are in a Republican primary, and Donald Trump, out of the blue, starts blaming the Bush family for 9/11, for knowing that the intelligence was made up, that there never were any weapons of mass destruction, and they knew it, Trump said.
Michael Moore doesn’t even say that…
On the stage at a Republican debate, Donald Trump defended Planned Parenthood. Not the abortion stuff, he said, but the fact that they do great things for women’s health. Folks, there were a number of occasions where Donald Trump sounded like the Daily Kos blog, where Donald Trump sounded like the Democrat Underground, sounded like any average host on MSNBC.
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Ted Cruz cannot win the presidency. People do not want to be preached to by this clown and he’d be a horrible commander in chief.
As another Freeper said, he’s running for President, not Reverend. I don’t need this guy preaching to me his brand of Christianity and sure as hell don’t want him to be president.
Threatening negativity is the sign of a lost campaign. I.E. the Cruz Campaign.
“Cruz is the one lying and intimidating voters.”
Wait long enough and he’ll claim “God told me to do that” or some other paranoid garbage.
I think we are in a grind-down for truth here.
Truth, not any “ism.”
Trump is an invaluable factor here, even though his accuracy sometimes suffers, because he is not tied to any “ism” — not liberalism, not conservatism, but rather his own best ideas about what is right and good.
I hope this proves a come-to-Jesus season for Cruz. What? For Cruz? Isn’t he a Christian par excellence? Well I fear to say it looks like he has a lot of room for improvement, room that many other Christians have already demonstrated can exist while yet on earth.
As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
I think people don’t mind preaching of Christianity nearly as much as this preaching being made by an insincere person.
A person who says Christ loves him and then shows what this looks like, is going to be listened to a lot more, than he who simply uses his faith as the basis of an earthly morality play.
Excellent post
he is a conservative, but he’s always been gope.
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In the studio he’s a Conservative. Outside of it he lives like a Democrat.
I’d say that Trump is looking to be able to defend things that do not depend so much on some “ism” — not conservatism, not liberalism — as they depend on truth and facts. Both lefties and righties have their demons du jour whereby they overstate cases. Trump is aiming for the space between the pillar and the post.
How about Rush calling Trump Donald McCain the flip flopping back within an hour after his phone lines lit up. It’s all about the ratings.
Excellent analysis.
After next November he’s gonna be a voice in the wilderness with no listeners. I know many who refuse to listen to him or Levin anymore, including me.
Thank you, Donald Trump, for flushing out all the GOPe Establishment Elite RINOs.
The "ism" which Trump seeks is "populism". Quite strong medicine: it almost carried Palin over the finish line despite the combined opposition of both McCain and the GOPe, *and* the Dems and Press combined.
Donald is busy defining himself to the low-information crowd among the undecideds and Dems, before the press remembers to stop shrieking at him for "not being a conservative."
Brilliant, to co-opt the press into doing your target marketing for you: and that, by reverse psychology.
Donald is the quintessential ass... Balaam’s ass, that is.
That’s what makes him so hard to peg. He’s saying a lot of the right things, but not being all that diplomatic about it.
True, Donald is closer to that “ism” and he’s even asked for it in the way he has asked for a deal.
My personal take? If conservatism wants a significant place at Trump’s table, it needs to start dealing. If it just sits and pouts, Trump is going to have to navigate this himself and we will get the luck of the deal (of cards).
It’s the perspective of seeing where the Iraq war went and what it’s created in its aftermath and knowing there were no WMDs on the scale or production we were led to believe and the integrity to admit we were wrong Trump or no Trump
I was wrong about the Iraq war and this forum was wrong to scream for zots of anyone disagree with Bush
Or later Sarah Palin
And if they had their way now.....Ted Cruz
It’s how Freepers are ......vindictive
And it is also fortunate from a conservative viewpoint that, currently, the “people” are far more conservative than the government. Just by aiming at that, Trump manages to embrace a lot of conservative desiderata.
I just hope that the discussion gets beyond just blaming people.
Thanks for your comments. And thanks for proving that people can disagree without being disagreeable.
The vindictiveness seems to be tied to espousing a certain agenda, or sometimes, sub-agenda (there are many flavors of what goes as “conservative.”)
If one had to pick a most basic principle, it should be truth, coupled with most basic values as outlined in the best of Judeo-Christian understanding. One might be wrong by that measure, but it’s also never unforgivable.
It won’t for awhile
If Trump wins the Cruz or nothing folks will snipe for a long time unless Ted gets some sort of nod
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