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Democrats Hoist with Their Own Petard
american thinker ^ | 1/5/2019 | clarice feldman

Posted on 01/06/2019 7:58:35 AM PST by bitt

“Hoist with his own petard” is a phrase taken from Shakespeare and means someone destroyed himself with a weapon (a petard, that is, small bomb) intended for another. President Trump has hoisted the #NeverTrumpers on theirs and is about to do the same thing to the now irremediably lunatic Democrats.

Christopher Bedard has done a brilliant job describing the downfall of the #NeverTrump scribblers. It’s worth reading it all, but here are some highlights:

The Never Trumpers say they don’t recognize a Republican Party where the core tenets are neither free trade nor foreign democracy promotion. But maybe they just didn’t know their voters by sight, because the only party that has truly departed recognition is Never Trump.

Each week brings this movement a new and bizarre position: Opposing tax cuts, supporting Obamacare; wishing North Korean talks ill, wishing Democratic investigators well; dreaming of European political meddling, pining for American political comeuppance. [snip]

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clarice; claricefeldman; claricespieces; democrats; romney

1 posted on 01/06/2019 7:58:35 AM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 01/06/2019 7:58:50 AM PST by bitt
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To: bitt

The ONLY thing that matters to Bush League Republicans is completing the GHW Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA).

The borders must remain open and the laws unenforced.


3 posted on 01/06/2019 8:01:32 AM 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: bitt

another good article

https://americanmind.org/features/thinking-about-thinking-about-trump/the-breaking-of-the-never-trump-mind/

The Breaking Of The Never Trump Mind
Christopher Bedford


4 posted on 01/06/2019 8:02:17 AM PST by bitt
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To: bitt

“Hoist with his own petard”.

This needs the photo of the guy straddling the soaring rocket.


5 posted on 01/06/2019 8:22:44 AM PST by ryderann
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To: bitt
"Free Trade" = Forcing us to take it up the giggy to protect all the $$$ the Globalists on both sides of the aisle have invested in China (for example).

"Foreign Democracy Promotion" = Sending Americans to die in someone else's asinine war. There's a happy medium between Libertarian-style isolationism and GOPe-style meddling in the affairs of other countries, that too often gets Americans killed.
6 posted on 01/06/2019 8:27:03 AM PST by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept.)
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To: bitt

Uniparty. Take positions but never resolve them.

The Democrats are very good at this too. They’ve been “fighting” for the poor for 60 years, but the poor haven’t seen anything but more poverty and dependence.


7 posted on 01/06/2019 8:32:07 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The internet has driven the world mad.)
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To: bitt

Never Trumpers need to join the Democrat party...


8 posted on 01/06/2019 8:32:16 AM PST by GOPJ (The Left hungers for victims to justify its inflated self-importance & greed for power. Greenfield)
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To: GOPJ

Never Trumpers = GOPe, RINO, or democRat-lite.


9 posted on 01/06/2019 9:51:17 AM PST by Boomer (Leftists destroy everything they touch)
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To: upchuck

Clarice Ping!


10 posted on 01/06/2019 11:22:41 AM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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Thanks for the ping jaz.


Clarice Feldman ping.

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11 posted on 01/06/2019 11:26:55 AM PST by upchuck (Liberalism is a foul and nasty mental disease for which the suffers should seek professional help.)
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To: bitt
As Mickey Kaus tweeted, he sensed there must have been a consultant behind Romney’s spectacular failing strategy -- you know, the kind of geniuses who sandbagged their candidate’s running mate Sarah Palin, the sort who talked Al Gore into wearing brown and stuffing a sock in his pants, who persuaded John Kerry to speak in phony backwoods talk to “get me a hunting license”, and who this week encouraged Elizabeth Warren to enact a folksy News Year’s Eve in her kitchen drinking beer out of a bottle.

The clown show is international. Emmanuel Macron's communications director Sylvain Fort is resigning - that'd be the guy who thought it was smart to have Macron tell the people whose taxes he just raised that the money was going to African development programs. If anyone is most responsible for the Yellow Vest insurgency it's he.

I mention him because this is what an autocratic, ideology-sodden party looks like when not only its principals but its staffers are completely out of touch with the constituents. Our own elites are precisely the same. "Nobody in Washington wants The Wall", bleated one of them last week. And after all, it is what they want, not what the people want, that matters.

12 posted on 01/06/2019 11:37:13 AM PST by Billthedrill
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The problem the Republican side of the Uniparty has is that their base knows well what they are doing or not doing, and are angry and frustrated by it. The Democrat side of the Uniparty has no problems, their base is as oblivious as always as to what they have been and are up to, and as always blame the Republicans for all the things they don’t like that the Democrats have always been doing, and now finally they are halfway right!


13 posted on 01/06/2019 1:15:43 PM PST by erkelly
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To: Billthedrill
I mention him (Sylvain Fort)because this is what an autocratic, ideology-sodden party looks like when not only its principals but its staffers are completely out of touch with the constituents.

Our own elites are precisely the same. "Nobody in Washington wants The Wall", bleated one of them last week.

And after all, it is what they want, not what the people want, that matters.


14 posted on 01/06/2019 2:05:52 PM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: ryderann
He's not exactly soaring, but is this what you had in hind?

15 posted on 01/06/2019 11:57:40 PM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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Thanks. That’s the idea. Go to bed...we should be sleeping instead of FRping.


16 posted on 01/07/2019 12:13:26 AM PST by ryderann
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