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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I'm with you. That is, my stoppage came at 10 this morning when I watched him come unhinged on the Bill & Martha show.
What’s wrong with attending an Ivy League school and being a lawyer and a US Senator? Robert Taft, one of the founders of modern conservatism was all three.
Highly respected Constitutional law professor Mary Brigid McManamon has just stated, "Ted Cruz is not eligible to be President." Big problem— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 22, 2016
Note to self . . buy more popcorn.
and in return Bob Dole is now the greatest here on FR
Did they EVER do this before? Dedicate an entire issue in opposition to one candidate before a single vote is cast? Did they ever do an issue like this when 0bama arrived on the National stage?
I have always voted for the nominee, no matter who I voted for in the primaries...and since 1992 they were always a different candidate than who eventually ended up on the ticket.
Kind of sums it up, doesn’t it?
C check out Jane’s post
It is about telling us that THEY chose the candidates not us. Just that simple.
Like the thugs on the internet, who scream that: we are dumb, not Christian and not conservative enough to pick our candidate.
It is about telling us that THEY chose the candidates not us. Just that simple.
How an Obscure Adviser to Pat Buchanan Predicted the Wild Trump Campaign in 1996
The Week dot com ^ | Michael Brendan Dougherty
Posted on 1/20/2016, 2:17:11 AM by WayneLusvardi
Imagine giving this advice to a Republican presidential candidate: What if you stopped calling yourself a conservative and instead just promised to make America great again?
What if you dropped all this leftover 19th-century piety about the free market and promised to fight the elites who were selling out American jobs?
What if you just stopped talking about reforming Medicare and Social Security and instead said that the elites were failing to deliver better healthcare at a reasonable price?
What if, instead of vainly talking about restoring the place of religion in society something that appeals only to a narrow slice of Middle America. You simply promised to restore the Middle American core, the economic and cultural losers of globalization to their rightful place in America?
What if you said you would re store them as the chief clients of the American state under your watch, being mindful of their interests when regulating the economy or negotiating trade deals?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3385923/posts
I hope if she starts, Trump just walks off the stage saying, you want to make your point, make it to this empty podium.
Taft ate whole bakeries and couldn’t fit into a bath tub.
Thank you very much for alerting me about Trump's tweet.
“He doesn’t “reach across the aisle†like McCain. And, he got Mitch McConnell upset by calling him a liar. Turtle didn’t come out of his shell for a week. I remember NR being very laudatory towards Boehner and McConnell.”
Exactly. Someone should ask: and where did these Ideas of yours work out for us?
In 1962 and 1965, NR devoted an entire issue to attacking the John Birch Society, but as far as I know, they have never before done this to a presidential candidate.
I’m betting they endorsed McCain and I know NRO endorsed Romney. Some real conservative’s there.
Yes, they foolishly want to win and not have Hilary or Bernie Sanders select the next 3 or 4 SCOTUS justices.
So they almost always gravitate to the candidate they see as the most electable. Most of them would agree that they'd personally prefer a more conservative candidate, but they've become defeatist and no longer believe a strong conservative can win.
And they aren't fooled by Trump into thinking he is a "strong conservative." There is no evidence to support that theory, and lots to debunk it.
Donald Trump is a crony capitalists and a charlatan with a conservative record of ZERO, Sarah Palin is a sellout for not giving the only Tea Party conservative in the race a chance to even make it to the FIRST PRIMARY (!!!), and a growing number of Tea Party conservatives are beginning to speak out about it. Amen to that!
Thanks for the information about the magazine article. Others should. Know
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