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This strategy that has been adopted by Monafort/Stone appears to be working brilliantly. By having Trump get away from the social conservative positions and take a more morally-neutral position, he is getting grudging kudos from some and is getting massive pushback from traditional leftist sources like WaPo and **NBC.

In short, he's making their heads explode.

Note: this is not that I agree with his position, but I understand the strategy.

1 posted on 04/23/2016 6:49:26 AM PDT by markomalley
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Which bathroom does this RINO use? Does he stand or squat? Why are these clowns constantly so obsessed with perversion?


2 posted on 04/23/2016 6:52:30 AM PDT by WyCoKsRepublican
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The much missed Iowahawk described Brooks to a T. More precisely, T Coddington Van Vorhees VII:

Who, you may ask, is T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII?

Simply put, a man born to the conservative saddle. The only scion of the legendary swashbuckling conservative editor / author / bon vivant T. Coddington Van Voorhees VI, I have since my earliest days honed a conservatism forged in the fires of intellectual combat, stoked by the bellows of classic education, and tempered in the cooling waters of good breeding. Even before matriculating at East Hampton Country Daycare, I was thrust headlong into heady intellectual debates of postwar American politics. Oh, how I cherish those moments, bouncing astride my father's knee, as he held postprandial court on the patio with Long Island Sound's most scrupulous Republicans - like Newport GOP chairman Z. Pilastor Fennewick, Greenwich GOP legend Boylston McInernery, and East Hampton's "hostess with the mostest," Modesty Crabwater. And although Dad had his differences with each, I admired the elegant grace with which these Republicans could command an Adirondack chair or accept electoral defeat. It is that very same grace I shall endeavor to bring back to the Grand Old Party.

3 posted on 04/23/2016 6:53:00 AM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (It's them or us.)
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I don’t want to use this issue like the left uses the mass shootings 10 times a year to beat us at the polls.

I think common sense will definitely prevail and if it turns out that it was a really bad idea, the states will take care of it with the stats to back them up.

I’d rather have a few f...t crossdressers in a lady’s room than have Hillary as president and Trump lose.


4 posted on 04/23/2016 6:54:38 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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The Donald is a genius.


5 posted on 04/23/2016 6:54:42 AM PDT by Enduro Guy (Trump/??????? 2016)
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I COULDN'T AGREE MORE! HOW LONG IS THIS BABY GOING TO GO ON??!!!

8 posted on 04/23/2016 6:59:15 AM PDT by yoe
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Of course Brooks is going to criticize the NC law and stand with the perverts and homo-fascists. These are the opening salvos in mainstreaming pedophilia. Perverts allowed in women’s restrooms, locker-rooms, and showers... all as some kind of civil right. They don’t want any forceful opposition to take root. The depraved degenerates have already gotten faggot-marriage through, and turned America into a putrid sewer, and are getting ready for the next steps. And as usual, the GOP will cower in a corner, like the spineless garbage they are.


9 posted on 04/23/2016 7:01:29 AM PDT by greene66
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And the pattern repeats: Trump says something, people Run in Circles Scream And Shout (RICSAS), some people actually think about it, and decide Trump was correct!


10 posted on 04/23/2016 7:04:01 AM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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"not stuck in Jerry Falwell land.""

Ah-ha! I just realized - the North Carolina bathroom issue isn't just liberal versus conservative. It's a criticism of the backward southerners and their religion by northern elitists - the same people who accuse conservatives of clinging to their guns and bibles.

11 posted on 04/23/2016 7:07:20 AM PDT by ladyjane
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This is a squirrel that should not be chased.

The ONE issue in this election is stopping the illegal alien inundation.

Do not take your eyes off the border.

The RNC/GOP has used flag-burning and gay marriage to distract us from their perfidy on enforcing the laws and borders while accomplishing nothing on the social issues.

We must have a country and the rule of law for any of the rest to matter.


12 posted on 04/23/2016 7:08:46 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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Just what this country needs. More “morally-neutral positions”.


13 posted on 04/23/2016 7:10:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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It’s a states-rights issue. The federal government needs to stay out of it, but then again, the federal government started it. Gay marriage, abortion on demand, LGBT rights—all made worse by top down, federal government intrusion where it should not (and morally/legally cannot per the US Constitution) be.

The SCOTUS does not solve these sorts of issues by misinterpreting the constitution. The supreme legislators just can’t help themselves from meddling, and every time they do, they only muddy the waters more. What should be simple black and white issues with clear boundaries turn into constantly evolving decrees from on high. A consistent bad ruling would be better than the random crap the SCOTUS currently spews.


14 posted on 04/23/2016 7:12:14 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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Brooks should invite these perverts over to his house to pee.


21 posted on 04/23/2016 7:29:38 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The "college" snowflakes need to check their American privilege. Everything isn't a right.)
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Problem solution:

Make every restroom one private room, with a toilet and sink and locking door. Every public place must have at least 3 individual “powder rooms”. That way, there’s no camera issue, no molesters issue, etc. Just like the “family restrooms” that are common, only every toilet would be a private room.

Yes, it would be expensive.


23 posted on 04/23/2016 7:33:37 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (They hated Reagan too ! TRUMP TOUGH - AMERICA STRONG)
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What is next, we have to allow trannies in the women’s showers at the gym?


24 posted on 04/23/2016 7:34:17 AM PDT by bergmeid
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Note: this is not that I agree with his position, but I understand the strategy.
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Trump is a realist. A lot of us still have our heads in the sand on this one. The issue is lost. The 4th Circuit killed it the other day with their 69 page diatribe telling us that a kid can use whatever bathroom he wants to use in school. While the case may have been predicated on Title IX, the law is predicated on the Equal Protection Clause. So there you have it. If the adverse decision is appealed, the best you can hope for is a 4-4 Supreme Ct. decision, which means the Circuit decision stands and the decision then becomes national law. The decision will have universal implications across the spectrum, far beyond schools.

http://www.towleroad.com/2016/04/gavin-grimm/

26 posted on 04/23/2016 7:40:50 AM PDT by iontheball
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Will Brooks “move on” if a granddaughter or niece is abused or raped in a bathroom by one of his beloved perverts?


28 posted on 04/23/2016 7:42:09 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (This household proudly voted for TRUMP)
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This strategy you speak of is being enacted every day of the week by GOP Congressional Leaders who are MODERATES.

It’s not Trumps fault that the Republican Congress enacts a 100% liberal social agenda.

Trump is playing the cards he’s been dealt by the Republican Congress. That is all.


29 posted on 04/23/2016 7:46:13 AM PDT by o2bfree (DNC = RNC :-)
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I have not watched PBS News Hour since I realized that their House conservative David Gergain was not a conservative. He had me fooled for a while, but when he joined the Clinton Administration the light went on and PBS New Hour went off. David Brooks is no conservative.


32 posted on 04/23/2016 7:52:05 AM PDT by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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Yep - forget the actual issue, just play politics.

This from the guy who's not supposed to play politics.

5th ave - zombie central.

40 posted on 04/23/2016 8:20:07 AM PDT by Reagan Disciple (Peace through Strength)
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You have to go a long way to get Brooks - PBS’s ‘conservative’ - to take a conservative position.


41 posted on 04/23/2016 8:20:57 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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