Posted on 01/22/2016 11:37:44 AM PST by don-o
It's one thing to publish an editorial denouncing Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump; any news outlet can do that, and plenty have. It's another to get almost two dozen leading conservative thinkers to write essays arguing against the Manhattan billionaire's nomination and agree to print them under a single banner: "Against Trump."
That's what the National Review and its editor, Rich Lowry, just pulled off. Lowry spoke with The Fix about how the special issue came together, what he hopes it will accomplish and the price that the conservative magazine was willing to pay in its relationship with the Republican National Committee, which has removed the magazine as co-sponsor of a debate in response to this issue.
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Here’s where I need your wisdom nopardons.
The way I see, IF they succeed in diminishing Trump, what happens next? I say it’s a lose/lose situation.
If they support Cruz, they reveal that they believe he is all in for amnesty, as we KNOW they all are.
If they don’t, then they’ve effectively cleared the path for Jeb/Kasich/Rubio - whoever.
So that tells me ALL I need to know - each and every one of this pukes are NOT for America. And the Cruz fans eat this crap up, so naive to how this plays out.
I guess Cruzers really do want illegals, because that is exactly what they’ll get.
Your insight is welcome :)
And water is still wet.
As Rush noted, National Review did this same, exact thing against NEWT GINGRICH in 2012 to help Romney and the GOPe. They are consistent: consistently against conservatism and in support of the Washington Establishment candidate.
Particularly the bimbettes. I dismiss them out of hand.
Cal Thomas is an aging stuffed shirt on the order of a D-league George Will.
Ed Meese is a weird publicity whore. He reminds me of the old whack-a-mole game.
Thomas Sowell should be selling vitamins on informercials. Every one of his Rush sit-ins was a talk-down holier-than-thou "smarter-than-you-are" - and I think Cruz has stolen about half that act. The bad half.
The National Review? What dat???........(s)
Dana Loesch has an angry, bitter b**ch face.
Pavlich looks like a ditz.
Bozell is drifitng off into space...
Several of them are Cruz supporters or with ties to his PACs or Mercer. I just looked up a couple of them.
However, the event itself is being organized by a pro-Cruz group ‘Keep the Promise 1’ (KtP1), a Super-pac originally started by billionaire hedge-funder Robert Mercer, who eventually turned over control of the Political Action Committee (PAC) to David Barton.
David Barton is Co-Chair for Glenn Beck’s Mercury One charity, and the assembly of interests provides an opportunity to explain how all of these entities connect.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/01/21/senator-ted-cruz-has-an-unstable-glenn-beck-problem-the-beck-barton-and-mercer-connections/
President of the Conservative Victory Committee Brent Bozell III endorsed Texas
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 97% for president on Friday, urging conservative Republicans to rally behind Cruz “immediately
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2015/07/25/brent-bozell-i-support-ted-cruz-for-president-unconditionally/
Ted Cruz appears to be the best positioned Republican candidate running for president in 2016, Federalist publisher Ben Domenech said on MSNBC on Saturday.
“[Cruz] appeals to the base in a very strong way,” he said. “He has the second most small-dollar donations and he also appeals to the party elites.”
http://thefederalist.com/2015/10/27/is-ted-cruz-the-most-likely-gop-nominee-in-2016/
#NROrevolt.
“a bunch of neocons who are worried that Trump doesn’t need their money or advice to run his campaign”
No, they’re worried that he lacks their taste for sacrificing American boys in battles that have nothing to do with us.
Well they are all burning bridges that they may wish to walk back over at some point.
Reminder - Donald Trump’s 2016 NRO Critics Were President Obama’s 2009 Fan-Boys...
...these same voices were the exact group who gathered together in an exclusive meeting with President Obama in 2009 to sing his praises after the ‘08 election. Including :
George Will
Michael Barone
David Brooks
Charles Krauthammer
Bill Kristol
Lawrence Kudlow
Rich Lowry
Peggy Noonan
The post-meeting/dinner report in The New Yorker Magazine holds the following quotes told by the glowing participants of their time with President Obama:
Richard Lowry: “(Obama is) the only presidential candidate from either party about whom there is a palpable excitement”.
The Republican Party is getting what it so richly deserves, as is NR who have promoted RINOs for decades now.
The GOP is dead, they just don’t know it yet.
Tell me exactly what those NR people have DONE, not written or said.
They’ve bloviated for years and got fat off of it while the country has burned. In case you haven’t noticed they haven’t had a whiff of success or influence.
We are well past egghead intellectuals and ivory tower “conservatives”.
They just don’t want their system changed.It’s been good to them.
LOWRY: We're not the Republican establishment; we're conservative. We're coming at it from a perspective of conservatism. We're not a business interest. We're not a donor. We exist outside the system, in that sense, and always have and always will.
This from the famous assclown that attacked every conservative in the race in 2012 while endorsing Mitt Romney.
Rich Lowry is AA wanna be. Keeps hoping some one will pay attention to him
Had National Review not long ago become a mouthpiece of the GOP Establishment, such a printing might bear weight.
But National Review is hopelessly compromised. Many of their writers sound like they were on John Boner’s staff.
Thomas Sowell and Ed Meese are solid
The rest haven’t been for quite awhile
Michael Medved?
Kiss of Death.
Wrong again
Well said
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