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Hating The President Is Not a Strategy, As Bill Kristol Just Learned*
Townhall.com ^ | December 15, 2018 | Jeff Ballabon

Posted on 12/15/2018 9:47:09 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 12/15/2018 9:47:09 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Sniff.


2 posted on 12/15/2018 9:50:50 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Kaslin

who owns CNN and how much longer will they stay the course? Their ratings tanked a few years ago.


3 posted on 12/15/2018 9:50:52 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: morphing libertarian
who owns CNN and how much longer will they stay the course?

Time Warner. It, incredibly, gave Jeff Zucker a contract extension in June.

4 posted on 12/15/2018 9:54:51 AM PST by Kazan
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To: Kaslin
I was a charter subscriber to TWS when it first came out. I didn’t last long. It was never “illustrious.”
5 posted on 12/15/2018 9:54:53 AM PST by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: Kaslin

That ain't swamp water

6 posted on 12/15/2018 9:55:28 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Kazan

suicidal


7 posted on 12/15/2018 9:55:41 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: Kaslin

Neoconservatism used to be taken seriously as an intellectual movement on the Right.

Today its plumbed down to complete irrelevance. All because it couldn’t get behind our President.

Hating Trump doesn’t win over people and the American people are sick
and tired of it.

Hate and rage isn’t good for business.


8 posted on 12/15/2018 9:55:52 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Kaslin
On cable TV, one network in particular has abandoned decades of journalistic tradition and ethics, devoting its resources to a relentless, nakedly partisan crusade to savage President Trump: CNN. Its ratings, predictably, are in the tank — in October, CNN fell behind both the Hallmark Channel and Home and Garden Television.

Sweet. Who would have guessed there is a limited audience for endless hate-filled diatribe.

9 posted on 12/15/2018 9:55:59 AM PST by Flick Lives
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For a year or two, I subscribed to it. Maybe thirty percent of the articles were worth reading. Every since the spring of 2016...primary season...they ‘tanked’ and went south. They just couldn’t accept Trump and were all fired up to get some insider. I bet they lost one-third of their subscribers in the six months after the election.


10 posted on 12/15/2018 9:56:19 AM PST by pepsionice
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Conservatives didn’t want to hear it. You could already get it every day on CNN and MSNBC. Having the same current of opinion on the Right seemed redundant.

The WS ceased to talk about things of interest to conservatives. Its demise showed how not to appeal to them.


11 posted on 12/15/2018 10:02:47 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Kaslin

Kristy is one of those “pie-in-the-face” types you’d just love to unload on

Wipe that condescending smirk off pronto


12 posted on 12/15/2018 10:05:14 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Mods/Indies/Dems/Non-voters" JOBS or MOBS? Are CRAZY DIMS REALLY who you want BACK in POWER?)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

I grew up on neo conservatism and I largely found myself in agreement with its basic world view.

Its intellectual street cred made conservatism hip, cool and approachable.

All that’s been decimated because Bill Kristol couldn’t stand Trump and decided resisting him was more important than influencing him to achieve conservative goals.

It lost its way and died. And the funny thing is I don’t really feel sad about the WS being gone.


13 posted on 12/15/2018 10:11:35 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Kaslin

Michelle Malkin quit CRTV soon after these plants invited the Beck disaster. Townhall is not far behind.


14 posted on 12/15/2018 10:12:22 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Kaslin

the tense is wrong

not is crumbling but has crumbled


15 posted on 12/15/2018 10:13:34 AM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: Flick Lives

“Sweet. Who would have guessed there is a limited audience for endless hate-filled diatribe.”

Somebody needs to point that out to Stephen Colbert. He literally looks possessed when he is ranting about Trump. Just a few seconds of that before I can get the channel changed is quite disturbing.


16 posted on 12/15/2018 10:14:09 AM PST by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: JudgemAll

I don’t think there is a significant Never Trump constituency on the Right. It was always a fringe movement.

Trump enjoys 90-95% approval among Republicans. That’s why his ratings have remained rock solid.

And his achievements in the face of adverse mid term winds speak for themselves.


17 posted on 12/15/2018 10:17:09 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: bert

Do I like everything about Trump? Most people don’t.

When all said and done, I prefer him to Milhous Felonious Pantsuit.

She would have been a disaster for America.


18 posted on 12/15/2018 10:40:07 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: morphing libertarian

AT&T. But CNN makes half their money from carriage fees paid by every cable and satellite provider, which aren’t dependent on ratings. Money for just being there.


19 posted on 12/15/2018 10:51:51 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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Keyword: election2018

20 posted on 12/15/2018 11:02:51 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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