"Conservatives" losing it. Blaze cancelled.

I have been regular, listening to Glenn Beck and Mark Levin in the past and enjoyed their musings, analysis, postings. Then they got behind Cruz they made me wonder.

After Trump fought for and won the nomination, they went nuts. Successful businessman, family man, one seeing the derailment of Regan's GOP into RATs ditch became the enemy of these "big mouths". They disregarded the support of majority of disenchanted population, they "know better" - he is not "good enough conservative". I gather he is supposed to be as conservative as establishment republicans, who shafted recent Tea Party elected reps into the garbage bin of GOP - the branch of Uniparty, who let Obama get away with dismantling US and building Caliphate.

They are getting behind who? Lying Ted Cruz who proved himself to be weird proselytizing "Christian" of Seven Mountain Dominionist Church and with all the baggage and twists during the primaries. They still stick to him and can't get over that Cruz did not succeeded in continuing the line of ineligible Presidents.

They, media and establishment seem to overlook the "small" problem that Obama and Cruz are not NATURAL BORN CITIZENS as defined by founding fathers. Do we need another, even more complicated Cuban, Canadian destroyer of US? Wasn't Obama enough to demonstrate how wise were the Founding Fathers in defining that important requirement not to have foreigner at the ruder? The silence of media and covering up ineligibility is deafening. But attacks on "birthers" are plenty, so shut up and enjoy the "politics". Vote for another phony. If not we, Becks, Levins, et al will help to elect crooked Hillary, RAT Supreme Court and finish the conversion of US into paradise like Cuba, N. Korea, Venezuela....

Is Trump perfect, conservative, angel, savior of all? Can't guarantee, but we are at the choice now Hillary or Trump. Compare past of both and we have the choice of really crooked politician vs. patriotic businessman who sees the present path to destruction and is offering some solutions to prevent that and to shake up the media/politician's cabal. To stop the march to socialist hell, the choice is clear - Donald J. Trump.

Beck and Levin do not seem to get that we are at the threshold of irreversible path to destruction if enabling and electing another, more crooked Clinton. Frankly, I and many others had enough of their screeching and proselytizing and stopped to tune into their programs. It is just amazing to see how some "conservatives" are turning against people's choice and trying to subvert candidate that people and reluctant party elected to represent in the next Presidential election.

Here is the chance to "fix" the rotten establishment and get the US back on track to greatness again, but we have unprecedented efforts of "Republicans" to destroy own frontrunner and our final surrender to Uniparty establishment to keep march of destruction into New World Order.

Looks like BeckLevins are losing big with their audiences. Cable network (Optimum in NE) just dropped Blaze from their channel lineup - The Blaze is no longer available.

I hope that Trump will replace bunch of Not4Trumps with millions of people who see what has happened under ineligible command and shake the establishment and bring the Freedom and Great America back.

That is true but the reason is seldom spending on the military but rather when the electorate discover that they can elect fiscally irresponsible who will create any and all welfare state spending programs that tickle the ignorant ears of greedy voters and successfully solicit their votes. The officeholders who will spend obscene amounts of money on economically ridiculous programs by borrowing the necessary funds and piling it on the old gummint credit card will, for the same reasons as their spending lunacy, refuse to raise taxes to fund their spending schemes.

The goal (and a generally successful one so far but the train wreck draws nigh) is to convince a willfully gullible public that money grows on trees and that wild spending politicians control all the trees. A program for plush retirement homes in the Carribean for every "deserving" American? No problem! It will be a new entitlement as well as Rolls Royces or Ferraris for each of us. It is only $$$$$. Vote for me and I'll set you free!!!! (of economic reality, that is).

I moved to rural NW Illinois in 2000 from Connecticut and my Congressman here was a four term veteran conservative named Don Manzullo. A mild-mannered unassuming guy with a very solid conservative voting record in all respects. He made a politically fatal mistake in 2011 when, shortly after Congress raised the debt "limit" yet again to accommodate the spending schemes of Obozo and virtually the entire Congress, Manzullo e-mailed Speaker Boehner during the Christmas break, asking that he convene the House during the break and pass a resolution telling Obozo then and there (and, of course, his fellow Congress members) that there would be NO MORE INCREASES in the debt "limit" so long as Obozo continued to be POTUS.

Boehner then got together with Majority Leader Cantor and Whip Kevin McCarthy, contacted a bunch of Texas contractors, brought in $600,000 to fund the worst campaign of campaign lies I have ever witnessed against Manzullo (in a district IL-16 seldom contested). They moved the spineless and unprincipled freshman weasel Adam Kinzinger into IL-16 from Chicagoland and purged Manzullo for his effrontery. It is because our legislature is run by the Boehners, Hasterts, Ryans and other useless, corrupted, compromised whores in service to the US Chamber of Crony Commerce that our nation will meet its demise and soon.

The military portion of the federal budget has been in constant decline for decades. We should spend what is necessary to fund a military second to none and miles ahead of whatever is in second place and not a penny more than what is necessary. That can be a substantially increased percentage of federal budget dollars IF we slash enough pork. At the beginning of the Vietnam War (and of Lyndon Johnson's disastrous "War on Poverty"), the US spent about 60% of its annual budget on the military and 40% on everything else. Today, we probably spend 15% or less on the military.

For what we spend on the military, we get fast attack subs, nuclear missile subs, nuclear missiles, a fleet of thoroughly modern aircraft carriers to project air power wherever needed, further research on space based weapons, modern bombers (B-52s are an awesome weapons system but the newest are more than 60 years old) and modern fighter planes and tanks. We are sadly lacking in manpower with the number of personnel LOWER than at the dangerously low levels of the Great Depression.

Obozo imagines that the most important military issues are things like how many patriots can be purged from the officer and top enlisted ranks and replaced with how many dedicated slaves of the weirdo-American and anti-American "communities," how many pregnant women (teach them to be straight!) can be put in jeopardy on the front lines in battle, how many weapons systems can be scrapped and how many of our enemies can be released how soon from Gitmo so that they can get back to killing American military personnel bogged down in bureaucratic rules many years after they should have promptly crushed the enemy and been brought straight home.

Bring Marine Corps General Jim "Mad Dog" Mattis out of retirement (65 years old now), make him Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and give him license to do whatever needs doing.

“We could fix the nation using the First Amendment if we’d just do it.”

I agree. The massive Tea Party rallies of several years back, were the best response to fedzilla that middle America has ever produced.

Had those rallies continued to grow in frequency, number, and size, Obama would have been a one term president, and we’d now have a very different Congress. Most of the horrors that have risen out of that man’s maladministration would never have come to pass.

The proof of how effective that 1st Amendment movement was, is in how the Obama regime responded to it. They used the power of the federal government to suppress it out of existence.

I can remember when the big rallies began to peter out. It was at the precise moment that they should have been increasing. I knew in my gut, at that time, that something terrible had happened. The people hadn’t lost their fervor. Millions had already ‘gotten off the couch’. So how did it all fall apart so suddenly?

The movement was murdered, with malice aforethought, by the regime in power and their fellow travelers in the establishment.

Yes, they silenced our collective voice, but all they accomplished was a temporary return to business as usual. They did nothing to address the grievances of tens of millions of citizens. Worse, they actually doubled down on the very policies which created the grievances in the first place. Even at this late date, they continue to pour salt in our wounds and seem determined to cement a final, and terminal lock on their unconstitutional power over the people.

At this moment, the people are showing up in the tens of thousands to show their support for a man whom they’ve invested all of their hopes in, to be that person who can take the helm in Washington, and reverse all of the destructive policies that have brought us to our knees.

If The Powers That Be refuse to allow our civil mechanisms to function as designed, and use their influence and power to deny the people of the choice at the ballot box, there WILL be repercussions, and they’ll be much more dramatic than peaceful rallies in the park.

I'll tell you exactly how the movement petered out, brother Dawg. It was a combination of the lame stream media playing the race card, and the success of the 2010 elections. On one hand, nothing scares conservatives like the R-word, and when the spitting non-incident happened at the C(r)apitol steps, too many TPers got scared because they were being called racists.

Then, as we always seem to do after a huge victory, we simply went to sleep after the butt whuppin' the 'Rats took in 2010. We always do it. We assume the Left has learned its lesson, and we can go back to our golf game and stock portfolio. Nothing is further from the truth...Leftists are like ants, always plotting, always scheming, always working for victory. We're stupid, lazy and cowardly, and go back to sleep after each big win.

2009 and 2010 gave me some hope that our Republic might have a chance, but since then, it's been back to long, slow, painful death spiral.

BTW, did you feel the quake this morning?

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho! God Bless Texas!

I can’t argue with your analysis. No doubt, you and I have only discussed a small number of the factors which were responsible for the demise of the Tea Party.

Let us not fail to acknowledge, though, the fighting fervor that still exists. It won us a record number of races nationwide in 2014, and put a real fear in the Democrat camp.

If it weren’t for the fact that they still hold the Executive branch, they’d already be in the political wilderness. It’s why Trump is such an existential threat to them.

He will not only take the most powerful of the three branches away from them - he’ll use the office to upend the carefully constructed order of business in Washington - and bring fundamental reforms across the land that hurt their cronies and partners in crime.

This wasn’t supposed to happen. We were supposed to have been given a false choice between two globalist pukes - just like the last time. But God smiled on us, and gave us a straight shooting, non-politician, to be our champion. And just listen to the caterwauling and gnashing of teeth on the other side. It’s like a symphonic cacophony of sheer terror. What delicious tears they have.

I heard about the Oklahoma quake this morning, but we didn’t feel a thing out here in east Dallas County. I hear some folks in Dallas proper felt it.

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