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Why I’m Still a NeverTrumper
NY Times ^ | 12/29/2017 | Bret Stephens

Posted on 12/31/2017 7:05:38 AM PST by RightGeek

Tax cuts. Deregulation. More for the military; less for the United Nations. The Islamic State crushed in its heartland. Assad hit with cruise missiles. Troops to Afghanistan. Arms for Ukraine. A tougher approach to North Korea. Jerusalem recognized as Israel’s capital. The Iran deal decertified. Title IX kangaroo courts on campus condemned. Yes to Keystone. No to Paris. Wall Street roaring and consumer confidence high.

And, of course, Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court. What, for a conservative, is there to dislike about this policy record as the Trump administration rounds out its first year in office?

That’s the question I keep hearing from old friends on the right who voted with misgiving for Donald Trump last year and now find reasons to like him. I admit it gives me pause. I agree with every one of the policy decisions mentioned above. But I still wish Hillary Clinton were president.

How does that make sense? Can I still call myself conservative?

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bretstephens; cino1outed; mediawingofthednc; mentalillness; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; partisanmediashills; snowflake; uniparty
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To: RightGeek

Yikes. A puerile screed. Better stated, a tantrum. And he would opine that a Hillary presidency and her character would have been better?


21 posted on 12/31/2017 7:12:46 AM PST by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: RightGeek

“How does that make sense? Can I still call myself conservative?”

It doesn’t. And you can call yourself a Guersney cow. That don’t mean we can milk you.

L


22 posted on 12/31/2017 7:12:48 AM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: RightGeek

You can call yourself a sewage diving socialist sucking slug, impersonating a “conservative.”

Which line do you call C-SPAN on?


23 posted on 12/31/2017 7:12:52 AM PST by glock rocks (... so much win!)
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To: RightGeek
Unreadable drivel.

I tried, I really did, but in short order the stupidity of it all made it unreadable.

Do I get points for trying?

24 posted on 12/31/2017 7:12:57 AM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: RightGeek

He who is a presstitute in the Old Gray Whore’s brothel is not and never was a conservative


25 posted on 12/31/2017 7:13:02 AM PST by Thibodeaux (2018 is looking good)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Bret’s Old man was most likely in the German Bund in the 1930s.


26 posted on 12/31/2017 7:13:13 AM PST by carmen2017
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To: RightGeek
The title is wrong. Should be:

Why I’m Still a Marxist and loathe America


27 posted on 12/31/2017 7:13:18 AM PST by Vortex (Garbage In, Garbage Out)
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To: ClearCase_guy

What a dumbass.


That says all that needs to be said.

Thanks.


28 posted on 12/31/2017 7:13:19 AM PST by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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To: RightGeek

UN=sex-trafficking


29 posted on 12/31/2017 7:14:55 AM PST by barbarianbabs
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
Bret, you’re a pu$$y. Run before Trump grabs you.

Fortunately, I finished my morning coffee before I read this!! BBBWWWWWAAAAAA HAAA HAAA!!

30 posted on 12/31/2017 7:15:44 AM PST by McBuff (To be, rather than to seem)
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To: RightGeek
"And want to preserve your own republican institutions? Then pay attention to the character of your leaders,...."

This guy is totally retarded. H->! had and has no character.

31 posted on 12/31/2017 7:16:04 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: xp38

I stopped reading at “New York Times”....


32 posted on 12/31/2017 7:16:30 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: RightGeek

Because either you’re an undercover fraud or the left’s got the goods on your perversions, Bret

#WhichOne(s)


33 posted on 12/31/2017 7:16:42 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Another Islamic terrorist event, and no “outrage” from the “Muslim community”. Again)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The dumb-ass quotes Moynihan for a definition of Conservative.

Not Goldwater, Moynihan.


34 posted on 12/31/2017 7:17:06 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: old curmudgeon

we saw, we came, he died....Yes, thats who needed to be president. Satan’s spawn. Pure effin evil. Above the law...This guy needs to be parachuted into Mogudishu, where he can “bond” with the locals.


35 posted on 12/31/2017 7:18:04 AM PST by davidb56
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To: G Larry

“We came. We saw. He died.” He prefers this as president.


36 posted on 12/31/2017 7:18:38 AM PST by proust (Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.)
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To: RightGeek

Oh well. Donald Trump is in the White House and this guy is on the outside looking in.


37 posted on 12/31/2017 7:18:55 AM PST by Spiridon
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To: RightGeek
First he says this:

But I still wish Hillary Clinton were president.

And then blurts out this:

But character does count, and virtue does matter, and Trump’s shortcomings prove it daily.

Hillary having more character and virtue than Trump? Has Stephens been asleep regarding all things Clinton since the Seventies? Anyone who can combine those two sentences in the same column is deliberately ignorant. And that kind of ignorance cannot be cured. Only pointed out for the pure intellectual depravity it is.

38 posted on 12/31/2017 7:19:40 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: Flycatcher

I didn’t waste my time. Have comics to read. It’s Sunday, after all.


39 posted on 12/31/2017 7:20:03 AM PST by Shady (We WON the Battle, Now let's WIN THE WAR!!!!)
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To: RightGeek
But I still wish Hillary Clinton were president.

Bret, you are a domestic enemy to the United States as founded.

Not a conservative. Not a man.

Willing to sell out his Nation and gladly hand his personal freedom over to a corrupt criminal enterprise just to keep his elitist persona intact.

40 posted on 12/31/2017 7:20:15 AM PST by Eddie01
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