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David French: The Democrats Have Not Earned Your Vote
National Review ^ | November 5, 2018 | David French

Posted on 11/05/2018 1:53:05 PM PST by EveningStar

If you like your Republican, you should keep your Republican.

Tens of millions of Americans have mailed in their ballots already. Tomorrow, tens of millions more will go to the polls. I’m not confident how they’ll vote, but I am absolutely certain of one thing: Not one of them will see the name “Donald Trump” on the ballot.

Instead, they will see different individuals with characters very different from Trump’s. They will see Republicans and Democrats with their own policy positions and their own rhetorical styles.

Yet now voices from the left, the center, and what can only be called the “former right” are calling on Republicans and conservatives to abandon any kind of individualized determination for the sake of opposing a man who isn’t on the ballot. They’re making that demand even as leading Democrats prove time and again that they will not moderate for the benefit of Republicans who change parties, will not compromise, and — crucially — will not even behave better than Trump himself.

In other words, they are asking for your political capitulation without earning your support.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: davidfrench; democrats; nationalreview; republicans; trump; vote
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1 posted on 11/05/2018 1:53:06 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

at the national review, no one can hear you scream


2 posted on 11/05/2018 1:54:48 PM PST by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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No one cares what this guy thinks.

No one cares what NR thinks.


3 posted on 11/05/2018 2:05:54 PM PST by bkopto
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To: EveningStar

Even the idiots at National Review can finally see that meeting the Democrats half-way in the destruction of the country is folly.


4 posted on 11/05/2018 2:07:42 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

NeverTrumper who sort of opposes Democrats.


5 posted on 11/05/2018 2:09:06 PM PST by Luke21
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To: bkopto

good article thanks

NR, the brain child of the conservative movement, William F Buckley, while not what it was under him, was driving force that helped get Reagan to power and is still a bedrock of conservative thought and action. Just because they didn’t initially like Trump is no reason to slam them everytime.


6 posted on 11/05/2018 2:10:57 PM PST by TECTopcat (TopCat)
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To: EveningStar

“Tuesday, however, is going to be the RINOs’ revenge. Romney-loving RINOs are coming out of their preserves with fire in their hearts and a gleam in their eyes. They are decked out in hunting gear of their own, and their prey is the Trump-backing, change-seeking GOP. They might not be able to win primaries anymore, but in league with their new friends, the Democrats, they are eager to take down some big game of their own. And they will...

...The GOP has been a minority for 86 years. And it will remain so as long as the GOP implicitly tells Americans that one group is better than another, whether that group is businesspeople, whites, evangelical Christians, or liberty-lovers.” - Tomorrow the RINOs Will Take Their Revenge by Henry Olsen

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/midterm-elections-republicans-tainted-by-rinos/


7 posted on 11/05/2018 2:13:25 PM PST by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: EveningStar

Isn’t he the goofball that Kristol tried to have run against Trump? What a maroon.


8 posted on 11/05/2018 2:13:28 PM PST by HighSierra5
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To: EveningStar

BTW - I’m old enough to remember looking forward to each issue of National Review coming in the mail. Now they believe in “No Illegal Immigrant Left Behind!”


9 posted on 11/05/2018 2:15:33 PM PST by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: EveningStar
Formal picture:

Informal picture:


10 posted on 11/05/2018 2:16:38 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: EveningStar
Not one of them will see the name “Donald Trump” on the ballot.

Wow, this guy is a freakin’ genius.

11 posted on 11/05/2018 2:17:24 PM PST by TADSLOS (I hate Russian Dolls. They are so full of themselves.)
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To: EveningStar

a never trumper


12 posted on 11/05/2018 2:22:16 PM PST by Democrats hate too much
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To: EveningStar

Yuk...this RINO is simply writing a thinly disguised description of his RINO wet dreams for tomorrow’s election results. I think those dreams will be unrequited.


13 posted on 11/05/2018 2:23:42 PM PST by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: EveningStar

Traitor


14 posted on 11/05/2018 2:27:01 PM PST by Az Joe (I AM TRUMP!)
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To: House Atreides

Do you want the Democrats to prevail over the Republicans just so you can sock it to the “RINOs”?


15 posted on 11/05/2018 3:10:19 PM PST by EveningStar (I am a Non-Cultist Trump Supporter.)
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To: TECTopcat; bkopto; All
NR, the brain child of the conservative movement, William F Buckley, while not what it was under him, was driving force that helped get Reagan to power and is still a bedrock of conservative thought and action. Just because they didn’t initially like Trump is no reason to slam them everytime.

TECTopcat, give it up. You're dealing with cultists. Conservatives aren't supposed to be cultists. :(

16 posted on 11/05/2018 3:15:27 PM PST by EveningStar (I am a Non-Cultist Trump Supporter.)
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To: EveningStar

Do you want the Democrats to prevail over the Republicans just so you can sock it to the “RINOs”?
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Ahh...did I say that or even imply that?


17 posted on 11/05/2018 3:22:57 PM PST by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: House Atreides
I saw this post by you and it left me wondering:

Yuk...this RINO is simply writing a thinly disguised description of his RINO wet dreams for tomorrow’s election results. I think those dreams will be unrequited.


18 posted on 11/05/2018 3:37:10 PM PST by EveningStar (I am a Non-Cultist Trump Supporter.)
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To: EveningStar

Sorry, I was definitely not clear. I was referring to the writer of the NR article linked in post 7 above.


19 posted on 11/05/2018 4:13:36 PM PST by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: House Atreides

OK. I see. Sorry. :(


20 posted on 11/05/2018 4:23:16 PM PST by EveningStar (I am a Non-Cultist Trump Supporter.)
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