Posted on 02/26/2016 12:49:01 PM PST by Ohioan
With a few bold stokes of historic significance, Trump has single-handedly broken the hold that "politically correct" bullies have long exerted over the vast bulk of those euphemistically described as "public servants." Thanks to Trump, it may never again be quite so easy to intimidate dissent in America.
With a few unpleasant, yet effective, strokes on the platform in Presidential debates, Trump has easily derailed the plans of political bullies & the incredibly wealthy users of those political bullies, who were trying to force the nomination of another globalist, Neocon influenced, candidate on the Republican Party; clearly demonstrating the tactical impotence of the badly compromised Republican "Establishment" in Washington.
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You're right on this Ohioan...
I have a number of problems with Trump, but I wish to be very clear that I will vote against the Democrat/Marxist/progressive coalition regardless of who becomes the Republican candidate.
No scales here. There is nothing Conservative about praising Planned Parenthood.
Well sure - I can see the logic - someone who openly attacks conservatives and what we stand for and says it is the government's role to take care of everyone "you conservatives" will just have to "get used to it!" sure is a fine representative of conservatism. Down is up - up is down.
So to understand ‘the breadth’ of conservatism, you have to support someone who openly blasts conservatives what they stand for and propose one policy after another that furthers the liberal cause...got it.
There is little doubt that Russell Kirk’s own claim to conservatism would be rejected by a good number of Freepers. He, much like Ohioan, regarded conservatism as being a frame of mind and cultural. He would be insufficiently political for many of today’s conservatives.
Did it ever occur to you that even wealthy men are quite capable of self-control, self-respect and moral behavior.
Is THAT what he is “fighting for?”
True that.
Try conservatism instead of "just about anything.".
Technically, we have not lost it yet.
The way Obama took his Oath of Office put him in the cursed camp.
But, we have not lost it completely.
We are definitely in need of a Great Wake-Up Call.
oh no..... it is not about who you support.
It is about increasing your vision of what is conservative to the much broader reality. The mass of Republican conservatives are not in the portion of the bell curve asymptotic to the X Axis
There are, of course, times when all people with a sense of community, State, national or any particular identification will respond as a group; but the idea of a need to adhere to some other Conservative's particular check list of priorities is a pathetic insult to our most basic premises.
Thanks. The very essence of the Trump campaign is to unmask & “unhorse” the bullies in the Republican Washington cabal; and to absolutely repudiate, the bullies in the Democratic Party, that have used once American institutions to persecute Americans who simply want to affirm the values of their honored ancestors, including the Faith of their fathers.
And who here said that there was? It is not really relevant to my argument that Planned Parenthood is not a Conservative organization. Nor is there any disagreement over whether it should be Federally funded.
The idea that the Federal Government has a major role in social value arguments is totally absurd. There was a clear reason why the list of functions granted to the Federal Agency, does not include moral & health questions.
Please be more specific.
While the older Bush (George H. W.) showed he understood the region, his son made major mistakes in what followed the defeat of Iraq. His ("W's") Second Inaugural Address, was probably the least Conservative Inaugural Address in American History.
Let me make it very clear. I admit that I supported the original attack on Iraq in 2002, based on the information at that time, but the decision to have our finest & bravest, patrolling the desert to serve as targets for guerrilla fanatics, was a misuse of American youth. And when the President explained his objectives--in a speech that was basically a repudiation of the Washington/Jefferson policy of treating others with respect--while still punishing "the first insult"--I staged a "debate" across over two centuries between Washington & "W"! (Bush/Washington Debate.)
[Every passage of Bush's address was republished; but for each I published the closest thing to a direct response, from Washington's farewell address. See for yourself--and judge for your self how terrible is the decline in reasoning ability in today's Washington, from what it was in the days of its namesake. Washington's foreign policy views, far from being in any way outdated, show a far clearer understanding of the psychological factors in formulating foreign policy than any one is exhibiting in Washington today.]
Yes, that certainly occurred to me. Indeed, it is a basic principle of Conservative social etiquette that one does not spread malicious gossip about other people’s personal lives. There is far too much of what used to be limited in its out reach to barber shops & “beauty parlors.”
Yes. Trump is clearly fighting to restore America to her historic culture. How else can you interpret “To make America Great again?”
I can interpret Make America Great Again as a glib political slogan unless it is backed up with substance and details. He is Dr. Feelgood selling his snake oil off the back of his traveling wagon unless he gives specifics. He wants conservatives to vote for him now and repent at leisure.
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