Posted on 01/22/2016 6:44:33 AM PST by 20yearsofinternet
Trump nevertheless offers a valuable warning for the Republican party. If responsible men irresponsibly ignore an issue as important as immigration, it will be taken up by the reckless. If they cannot explain their Beltway maneuvers - worse, if their maneuvering is indefensible - they will be rejected by their own voters. If they cannot advance a compelling working-class agenda, the legitimate anxieties and discontents of blue-collar voters will be exploited by demagogues. We sympathize with many of the complaints of Trump supporters about the GOP, but that doesn't make the mogul any less flawed a vessel for them.
Some conservatives have made it their business to make excuses for Trump and duly get pats on the head from him. Count us out. Donald Trump is a menace to American conservatism who would take the work of generations and trample it underfoot in behalf of a populism as heedless and crude as the Donald himself.
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Thanks for posting that. I saved it to my bookmarks to show DH later.
It’s funny, for years now, I have stopped calling myself a Conservative because I have felt it meant nothing anymore.
Oh golly, gee...
That is so big of you!
FR does not have a brain nor a processing unit. Only members.
Dissing the members only identifies you as a small person and a delusional, clueless controlling Twit.
There lies the problem. The GOP establishment is loyal to the political party, not to any core principles or policies. Their only problem with Trump is that he's not a party hack like their candidates of choice (Jeb etc). They can't come out and say something that inane, so instead they attack his lack of ideological purity while glossing over the fact that their candidates of choice are even further to the left.
“...Donald Trump is a menace to American conservatism who would take the work of generations and trample it underfoot in behalf of a populism as heedless and crude as the Donald himself...”
Trump’s not my guy - I’m supporting Cruz in the primaries and whoever opposes the dem in the general. That being said, the above statement is ridiculous — except the part about Trump being crude.
If my advice were worth more than a bucket of boiled gravel, I would advise Trump - given the amount of his lead - that he could afford to be a bit more congenial. Still speak the truth, but he doesn’t have to be such a horse’s a$$ about it. Reagan is a good example to follow. He could criticize someone effectively and both would leave smiling. Perhaps Trump lacks that level of social skills/smarts...
And I also believe it takes more than just a bit of cognitive-dissonance to even imagine that there is a “broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP” that Trump would purportedly “trash” as the article asserts. For an article that they would seemingly like me to take seriously, they probably should not have led with that whopper right off the bat. It was worth a chuckle though.
If it's just about winning, why is there so much hostility to Trump, who is certainly capable of winning the general election against Hillary (and can probably bring over more disaffected working-class Democrats than Jeb or Rubio could)?
The GOP establishment's objections to Trump aren't ideological either, otherwise they'd be applying the same ideological purity test to Jeb. So if it isn't about electability or ideology, all that leaves as an explanation for their opposition is the sense that Trump isn't "one of them," i.e. not part of the establishment club. That's a very childish approach to selecting a candidate.
The invective coming out of Brent Bozell last night really surprised me. I had no idea he hated Trump so much. I’ve normally paid attention to what he has to say about how the media plays favorites.
He was over the top in my opinion.
Trump is not the end of the world or of conservatism.
He might be the end of the strap-hangers onto conservatism making money off of it. That would be okay. They had morphed into a comfortable Hegelian win/lose/inch toward liberalism anyway.
IOW, they cry a river —maybe even a sincere river — but they lose.
Thank you for your opinion.
Now, go away.
This is all good, really, really good. It is outing an entire nest of these people as true insiders who don’t want any real change, who are snorting at the trough of favors and money. The first “principle” of conservatism is that America is worth protecting. That includes having borders and limiting the number of terrorists who come in. These yayhoos (and I’m being generious) are happy to sell us all down the river for their 30 pieces of silver.
Nice list. Post it on any thread put up by the top Cruz folks, and watch the fun start. Good job.
Welcome, NOOB.
This "party first," firmly entrenched in the political psyche is the handiwork of The First rapist and his wife. Since then, it has induced the ghastly assertion by Fox's blonde bimbo and her co-conspirators into asking, shamelessly and with total ignorance, "will you support whichever candidate the GOPe promotes?"
Who was the ONLY candidate to confirm that "Americans First" trumps the parties of graft, cronyism and "control?"
Restore the Constitutional Republic!
Now there's an idea and a slogan I can get firmly behind.
RESTORE THE REPUBLIC!
The government of THE PEOPLE.
A fundamental change politically which is the antipode of the clearly failed disaster of the last 8 years BY ALL PARTIES. The GOPe SHOULD be in panic mode.
So did Romney - but National Review failed to issue any warning.
So did McCain - but National Review failed to issue any warning.
When so-called responsible people in the Republican Party demonstrate a refusal or inability to act on true conservative values and when so-called conservative publications refuse to recognize and respond to those failures, they all should prepare to reap the whirlwind.
Nature abhors a vacuum, so welcome to hope and change, Trump style.
Preach it brother/sister!
I mean, we haven’t heard any of this before! Well except for the let’s pile on Palin part, kudos for bringing something new to the table :)
Thanks!
Share it with friends and others who feel like we do.
I never said loyalty should be to the party first. It shouldn't be. I'm simply saying that applying the RINO label here as a pejorative is ridiculous. If you think the problem is the party itself, then the problem isn't that they're "Republicans In Name Only" -- the problem would be that they're Republicans. Come up with a different label if you'd like, but that one just doesn't fit.
It's an especially odd pejorative to use in defense of Trump, who probably is the closest thing to an actual "RINO" in the primary.
And posting words in all capital letters doesn't make your point any better, old-timer.
I wouldn’t exactly call Brent Bozell a RINO. Far from it.
Never call this bunch at National Review conservatives. Did they attempt to derail LIBERAL Mitt Romney with a hit piece four years ago? Of course not, every one of them voted for him. They hate Trump because establishment elites are a thing of the past if he’s elected. No one gives a rats ass what a snob GOP elitist thinks anymore.
Rush edging closer to explaining Trump. One party, Crazy Dems, is the fringe and doesn’t want to fight for us. The other, GOPe, WON’T fight for us, and I’d add that while Cruz wants to, I don’t think he can.
Bozzell and the rest of the Trump haters endorsed Romney twice. They have no integrity of credibility whatsoever.
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