Jackpot. Since Trump owned a casino, I thought this was an appropriate analogy.
Rick Manning absolutely nails it!
True... Connivers LOVE Trump the good ones and the BAD ones..
The BAD connivers love him the most... he gives conniving a GOOD NAME..
TRUMP is the ULTIMATE Conniver.. The connivers Action Hero..
HE BRAGS ABOUT IT too,,,
ALL CONNIVERS UNITE.. Trump is your man..
He is the connivers...... CONNIVER...
Bttt
When you LIE 100% of the time to your base, don’t expect anyone to believe you.
I think this guy boils it down about as good as anyone I’ve seen.
Thanks.
I see the author is titled President of Americans for Limited Government. I can only conclude that either he never believed in limited government in the first place or he is too stupid to realize that Trump represents a repudiation of what he stands for. Trump is the fulfillment of the nightmare that will destroy small government, free market conservatism for a generation or more. He is the fusion of social conservatism and economic leftism. He is I’m afraid what under the surface those who called themselves conservatives wanted all along, but never fully admitted. Trump is the New Deal Democrat circa 1949. The flag waving union delegate of old. People want big government working for them, they do not want smaller government. They want the entitlements to keep flowing. I’m afraid the only thing that will stop the Leviathan now is a complete financial collapse of the whole unsustainable setup. Nobody today is interested in smaller government, even conservatives. Us small government, free market types represent such a small segment of the population that our goals will never be reached. As much as I hate it, I cannot deny the facts.
He definitely has the “it” factor. I’ll vote on the social issues first, but Trump is lovable. I won’t deny that.
The “tea party” was born in the early days of the Obama regime not from the election of Obama, but from the absolute incapacity and refusal of GOP to confront and fight him.
Trump’s candidacy has caught fire precisely thanks to this last election cycle where GOP campaigned on a promise to stop Obama including de-fund Obamacare, and instead we find them signing off on absolutely everything he does. We have Boehner and McConnell to thank for the fact that Trump’s support is so widespread.
The people running against him don’t understand that or don’t want to understand it. The way to beat him isn’t to attack him, but to do a better job of attacking the forces people see as unraveling the country. And that includes most especially the GOP establishment.
I have observed in my extended family that people who are engaged can discuss the minutiae of Walker or Cruz or Jindal or Bush’s program, but the much larger group who are not engaged love Trump. The ones who are engaged love him less but conclude that he is the only one with a chance to turn things around, as the others either have no chance or won’t do it anyway.
My only concern with Trump is that we haven’t actually heard many details on his programs beyond the border. He says he’ll be great on Women’s services... what does that mean exactly? Similarly Cruz, who is my favorite, needs to re-think his position on H1b visas. Otherwise, those are the only two I am interested in.
"People who go to work every day and shake their heads at how crazy our nation has become have a hero in Donald Trump."
"For establishment Republicans, it is their own weakness in confronting what has been a wholesale assault on American culture that has forced the people to turn to Trump for leadership. In the month ahead, through the government funding process, Congress will get one last chance to show they are willing to stop Obama’s transformational agenda."
" Failure to exercise their constitutional authority to put the executive branch in check will be the final nail in the coffin for establishment Republicans trying to stop the anti-Washington, Trump movement."
So, in the months ahead, when Congress again fails to follow the mandate of the Nov, 14 election and doesn't Stop Obama, then Trump's numbers will soar even more. Bank on it.
I will only vote for a conservative
I care about conservatism
After 2012 a lot of FReepers said they wanted to elect a real conservative in 2016
This whole Trump thing is sad. Very sad.
I see so many here abandoning conservatism at the drop of hat by a phony celebutard that it makes me cringe.
I weep for this country.
The author intimates that the last chance to derail Trump is to fight the debt ceiling raise to come this fall.
We expect that finally the Republican majorities will negotiate meaningful cuts during the debt ceiling fight,
But even if they do it this time, it will not derail Trump. It will be seen for what it will be. A last ditch attempt
To actually do at least one thing we sent them there to do.
List of what professional politicians of the conservative stripe have delivered since House went GOP majority in 2010, and senate went GOP majority in 2014:
1) Nothing
2) Zero
3) Nada
4) Shunya
5) μηδέν
6) нулю
7) Null
No wonder Trump & Carson are at top of the polls.
These negative ads they are putting up with Trump from a hundred years ago saying he thinks he’s a Democrat and he’s pro choice yada yada are going to backfire. everybody already knows about this stuff and Trump has admitted it. Its not going to work.