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Analysis: Trump’s conservative critics are speaking a code
The Albuquerque Journal ^ | September 4, 2019 | Calvin Woodward, AP

Posted on 09/04/2019 12:39:39 PM PDT by CedarDave

WASHINGTON — Like whisperers in a tempest, conservative-minded officials across the breadth of Donald Trump’s government are letting it be known what they think of him, and some of it isn’t pretty.

But they are speaking oh so softly, in a kind of code, to a country that may only hear shouting.

Jim Mattis is just the latest in a string of leading lights from the conservative establishment to throw shade at Trump. As with others — the chief justice, a special counsel, various Republican lawmakers who hope to have a political future — the ex-Pentagon chief’s words are subtle, filtered through notions of duty, decorum, deference to history, the greater good.

Crack the code and you can sometimes see deep discomfort with Trump, the contours of a searing repudiation. In the view of many institutionalists of the right as well as the left, he is bulldozing values that America holds dear.

Yet the negativity is couched in words of moderation and caution.

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2020election; associatedpress; calvinwoodward; conservatives; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; mediawingofthednc; nevertrumpers; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; trump
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To: CedarDave

These 3 writers are running around in mental circles. Think how much the Kennedy Bros HATED LBJ. Remember how Truman was just loathed by nearly everyone but history says he was and is one of the best we have had.

Think of the Nixon years and all the back stabbing intrique that went on to get him to resign.

This article is largely BS. What’s going on now is more or less what always goes on in Washington and National Politics. Again, it’s called BACK STABBING (by your enemies and friends) and the lead example of that is how bad Congress and other prominent politicos stabbed George Washington in the back. These 3 writers need to go find something else to do...……….most car washes need help!


21 posted on 09/04/2019 1:15:22 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: CedarDave

I used my decoder ring.

“Progressives are American Traitors and must be destroyed, wiped out, before they destroy the Republic”

or something like that


22 posted on 09/04/2019 1:16:44 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.btyC. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
I bet in your company you can find plenty of managers who aren’t so thrilled with the CEO either.

How didya know?! ;>))

23 posted on 09/04/2019 1:16:50 PM PDT by CedarDave (Google has blacklisted Free Republic in its search engine. Use duckduckgo for searching.)
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To: CedarDave

Democrats are evil.


24 posted on 09/04/2019 1:16:57 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: wastoute

Wow,some have a very strange definition of Conservative. To be fair,most of the true Conservatives have left early on.


25 posted on 09/04/2019 1:33:06 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: CedarDave

Yes, for all the good these “conservatives” have done to preserve our Republic, they should be ashamed of themselves, as President Trump has done far more for this Republic than have they.


26 posted on 09/04/2019 1:36:08 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: chief lee runamok
The "Trump Curse" is a theory reality that anyone who says or does negative towards Donald Trump will be cursed with bad luck or negative karma.
27 posted on 09/04/2019 2:07:43 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Here's the Formula: Hatred + Government + Disarmed Civilians = Genocide !)
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To: CedarDave

Sure we are. /eyeroll


28 posted on 09/04/2019 2:52:14 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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To: DesertRhino

Thank you.


29 posted on 09/04/2019 2:58:02 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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To: CedarDave

Whenever I want to know what a Marine says, I go to a commie weakling like Calvin Woodward for the correct interpretation. /S/


30 posted on 09/04/2019 4:36:08 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks CedarDave. Partisan Media Shills update.

31 posted on 09/04/2019 11:04:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: CedarDave
The AP pulled out their crystal ball, put on their magic hat and read the minds of people like Jim Mattis - a man who went out of his way to state he WAS NOT going to criticize a sitting president no matter how often members of the corrupt press begged him to do so.

Well, I ‘cracked the code’ on Calvin Woodward - what he's ‘really saying’ is he hates President Trump and will make up anything to damage President Trump... and that he has zero journalistic ethics...

32 posted on 09/05/2019 7:45:47 AM PDT by GOPJ (CNN's Lawrence O'Donnell rapes 5 year old boys and his Mom's a whore. IF true a bombshell story.)
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To: CedarDave

Globalists ( or non patriots if you will) hate tariffs. It’s all about the tariffs.


33 posted on 09/05/2019 7:49:26 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: CedarDave

Hey Calvin I will code talk again on November 3, 2020. Stay tuned.


34 posted on 09/05/2019 7:51:44 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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