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Neoconservatives Declare War on Donald J. Trump
The Intercept ^ | Feb. 29 2016, 12:08 p.m. | Zaid Jilani

Posted on 02/29/2016 2:41:44 PM PST by drewh

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To: drewh

LOL, yep, trying to take Trump out is like trying to take down a high brick wall with a toothpick.


61 posted on 02/29/2016 3:46:28 PM PST by Baladas
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To: RaceBannon

I understand why. It’s because they are stupid and live in the past. They are the “get off my lawn” type of conservatives who would let the world burn before they’d give up one of their 1988-style worldviews.

Any Republican could have beaten Trump back in August, if they had been man enough to do it. But, they all sat back and waited for him to self-destruct, as their handlers told them he would. The handlers were wrong and the candidates’ instincts were wrong. If they couldn’t detect the anger in the GOP base, then how clueless would they be as president?

Obama has been hugely effective at getting his agenda shoved down the throats of the American people because political handlers underestimate him, we try to pretend that he’s incompetent, and he talks to his base.

This is 2016. That’s what works in the USA today. It wouldn’t have worked in 1988 and hopefully it won’t work in 2032, but right now, it is what works and Trump knows how to work it.

Your guy isn’t being beaten. He gave up 5 months ago and thought he’d cruise to an easy win and took too long to get in the game. Five months ago, he was my guy too and when Trump started talking, I’d yell at the TV for someone else to jump up and be the better communicator with the better ideas and to understand what makes us mad as hell. He failed. He kept mumbling and whining, pretending that his God Cred would propel him to the WH. Somewhere between August and now, he became the Baptist Mitt Romney—a guy who thought he deserved it and didn’t want to ruffle his dress by fighting for it.


62 posted on 02/29/2016 3:48:38 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: drewh

Trump will burn it all down...

63 posted on 02/29/2016 3:54:03 PM PST by GraceG (The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
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To: JRochelle

Have a Super Tuesday!


64 posted on 02/29/2016 3:57:12 PM PST by Boardwalk
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To: drewh
"With Trump’s ascendancy, it’s possible that the parties will reorient their views on war and peace, with Trump moving the GOP to a more dovish direction and Clinton moving the Democrats towards greater support for war."

One must question the mental status of anyone making such an utterly facile statement. Berniebots are 40% of Cankle's must-have electorate.

65 posted on 02/29/2016 3:58:54 PM PST by StAnDeliver ("Sweet, sweet tears ..")
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To: drewh
Robert Kagan is a stone nut job.

Trump for President.

66 posted on 02/29/2016 3:58:57 PM PST by Logical me
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To: Eddie01

They all schooled at the knee of Peretz and Kristol and daddy Podhertz

Amongst others.....non Jewish as well

Hell the Bush dynasty....fairly patrician WASP is a benchmark of neoconservatism

Israel first....cool...I’m typically with that

Social issues not so important....cause many are former Dems

Nation Building.....no Tks unless you’ve destroyed the enemy in total war first like 1945

Fiscal restraint.....they are not good at it because they believe in the good of the govt arm

Neocons are basically Rockefeller GOP bred with 70s Democrats who left after their youthful stint with McGovern Carter and Mondale as the party went and stayed left

Krauthammer is like their sage....a culture lib


67 posted on 02/29/2016 4:05:02 PM PST by wardaddy (Ted Cruz endorser of Rubio is off my Christmas list......)
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To: LibFreeUSA

All those grinning elites need to be lamp-posted.


68 posted on 02/29/2016 4:06:08 PM PST by bkopto
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To: dmzTahoe
...most if not all of those rejecting Trumps legitimacy will not be reelected.
Trump followers will have long memories, and pay back will be hell.

Although I agree with the first statement, the second, petty follow up is a clumsy attempt to tar Trump with the Shrillary brush, the weapon of the Clinton Criminal Enterprises, Inc.

The Clinton huge enemies Database would make Nixon's enemy's list look like a pie baking stay at home housewife's shopping list.

69 posted on 02/29/2016 4:13:36 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: drewh

“neutrality in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, “

The Jew-hater sides with the terrorists.


70 posted on 02/29/2016 4:15:33 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: MNJohnnie
Maybe Pub you might try more reading and less snarking.

Having spent many hours doing just that, my uncertainty is in crowded company from the extreme left to the extreme right. I am in unexpected company with all sorts of weirdos.

But I can say the same here in FR, too.

71 posted on 02/29/2016 4:20:59 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: RaceBannon; All

Lying, adulterous, draft-dodger? You mean Limbaugh? Can’t be, you didn’t say “drug addict”.


72 posted on 02/29/2016 4:21:28 PM PST by j.argese (/s tags: If you have a mind unnecessary. If you're a cretin it really doesn't matter, does it?)
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To: JRochelle
Hillary and Trump are 2 of a kind.

You sound like you're kinda stuck there, Skippy...

73 posted on 02/29/2016 4:24:26 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: drewh

Sunshine is elusive and may or may not be found here ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q3R7kvhnhE


74 posted on 02/29/2016 4:29:58 PM PST by soycd
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To: KGeorge
...(0bama is just an anti American, pro Muslim psychopath.)

I wouldn't go that far; yet.
A slick duplicitous sociopath, perhaps.

75 posted on 02/29/2016 4:32:24 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: drewh

All conservatives should be at war with Trump being that he is the most liberal candidate on the GOP side.
I’m tired of liberal republicans: Dole, Bush, McCain, Romney and now Trump.


76 posted on 02/29/2016 4:37:04 PM PST by Buck-I-Guy
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To: stephenjohnbanker

smirk


77 posted on 02/29/2016 4:37:10 PM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: j.argese

thanks for admitting you know

and limbaugh aint running, the lying adulterous draft dodger trump is


78 posted on 02/29/2016 4:42:24 PM PST by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for)
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To: drewh

So what do the chicken hawks propose to do? Whack DT with their manpurses?


79 posted on 02/29/2016 4:43:59 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (Primary Teddy 2018)
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To: RaceBannon

This Window Closed.


80 posted on 02/29/2016 4:44:17 PM PST by j.argese (/s tags: If you have a mind unnecessary. If you're a cretin it really doesn't matter, does it?)
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