Today I did something I NEVER do -- turned Rush's program off. I have all my friends trained not to call me between 11 and 2 because that time is always set aside for Rush. It's been a high priority in my life since '92 -- or it was until Trumpmania. Now when I come out against Trump, I'm a member of the GOPe and, by extension according to you, an idiot. Neither could be further from the truth.
I'm quite conservative, I am LIVID at the Establishment and have vowed never to support another squishy candidate they manipulate over the finish line to become our "conservative" nominee. I identify strongly with the Tea Party and am confused by the fusion of some Tea Partiers and with Trumpsters.
Rush has pigeon-holed those of us who don't appreciate Trump's antics, rudeness, braggadocio and sophomoric behavior as Establishment, as have most of the rabid Trumpsters here on FR. Why, there couldn't possibly be another answer except that we're part of the Establishment!
I admit that I'm not accustomed to having to defend my conservative creds. It's very interesting that, all over FR when it's pointed out by someone that Trump isn't a conservative, several Trumpsters reply, "I know." What the...?
I'm so scared that FR is no longer going to be the "Premier Conservative Site on the Net" since so many are willing to be taken in by a billionaire reality show star who exhibits traits of arrested development (or 12-year-old behavior, take your pick), simply because he tells you what you want to hear. Do you REALLY believe he's married to conservative principles, or do you think perhaps he's the wolf on the prowl knowing full well he can take advantage of the vulnerable woman (the conservative element within the Republican Party) who's been burned too many times (by the GOPe) just by telling her the words he knows she wants to hear? Put your clothes back on, all you true conservatives! He will use you and abuse you, and he will NOT respect you in the morning.
I agree with a lot of the things u said.
Lessay you have two choices:
1.) A guy with a very sharp conceptual and oratorical grasp of all things Conservative. He can verbalize it, he’s a consummate DC insider. He’s elected, goes to DC and to a ton of cocktail parties. He’s widely tolerated by the DC machine and he implements 1% of his (and your) ideas.
2.) A guy with a big mouth, insane mouth and shaky credentials. Meanwhile he’s freakishly gifted in the implementation department. He goes to DC, remains widely reviled by all there, and ends up implementing 50% of the latest batch of things he professed and in which you believe.
Now if you had a VERY long history of being betrayed by candidates of the type #1 persuasion, who might you vote for THIS time around?
I ask because I have arrived at that point, the point where I regard choice #2 as comparatively safe.
People are fond these days of saying, “Insanity is where you keep doing the same thing, each time expecting a different result”.
You know to me when McCain says he’s a maverick outsider who will lower tax and fight regulation it’s just UTTERLY MEANINGLESS to me.
I think that of 95% of GOP professional politicians.