Posted on 01/22/2016 8:39:33 PM PST by Amntn
National Review's publication of the collective anti-Donald Trump missives from 22 self-appointed conservative potentates has caused quite a stir in Republican circles.
The nationwide responses range from, "Wait, I thought National Review went out of business years ago," to "Ed Meese? Seriously?"
The Gang of 22 have officially become parodies of themselves. One would have to reach back to the days of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew to lift an adequate quote to describe them.
"Nattering nabobs of negativism," "vicars of vacillation," "pusillanimous pussyfooters," "the decadent few," "ideological eunuchs," "the effete corps of impudent snobs," or "the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history" - take your pick, because they all apply about equally well to each and every one of them.
So clueless is the Gang of 22 they can't even see how they've stumbled right into the narrative Trump's been communicating so successfully for months. Just like the elected officials from both parties, the Gang of 22 has been GREAT at complaining about stuff, year, after year, after year.
But getting anything accomplished? Not so much.
Many of the Gang of 22 have been hanging around and chattering for decades, and some are active cogs in the Conservative Entertainment Complex, deriving their income by pandering to conservative anger while offering no real solutions.
Donald Trump represents a threat to these ineffectual poohbahs in the same way he represents a threat to do-nothing public officials.
Jealousy is also seriously at work here. Trump is inspiring and exciting a broad spectrum of the country like no member of the Gang of 22 ever has, or ever will.
In just seven months of campaigning, Trump already has more Americans listening to a Republican message than the entire Gang of 22 could muster over decades. Trump understands that before you can advance the ball, you have to convince people to take time from their busy lives to listen. No one on the GOP side since Ronald Reagan has accomplished that like Trump.
No one else has come close, and certainly no one from that "effete corps of impudent snobs" to which the National Review thinks we should defer.
The Gang of 22 had their chance. They've done a lot of bitching over the years, and it paid well for some.
But Americans care about results. They can plainly see that all of the empty talk from the Gang of 22 got us eight years of Barack Obama, and a loss in pretty much every conservative battle there was to lose.
At the same time when Americans look at Donald Trump's life they get a lot of assurance that here is finally a man who shares their focus on actually getting results. And Trump returns the respect by recognizing regular hard-working Americans are a lot smarter than any of the "ideological eunuchs" in all of their pontificating glory.
The "pusillanimous pussyfooters" love to nitpick Trump's words, but what voters are looking for this year is competence and accomplishment. Donald Trump has an actual record of delivering both in spades.
The Gang of 22 is right to be terrified. A President who could get things done would expose them as the irrelevant creatures they truly are.
It can't happen fast enough.
WOW!
Nail......meet Hammer!!!!!!!!
Blowback!
National Review: Publisher ‘Broken Hearted’ Over Subscription Cancellations
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3387393/posts
Glenn Beck, David Boaz, L. Brent Bozell III, Mona Charen, Ben Domenech, Erick Erickson, Steven F. Hayward, Mark Helprin, William Kristol, Yuval Levin, Dana Loesch, Andrew L. McCarthy, Michael Medved, Edwin Meese III, Russell Moore,
Michael B. Mukasey, Katie Pavlich, John Podhoretz, R. R. Reno, Thomas Sowell, Cal Thomas.
National Review’s version of Duke University’s infamous “Group of 88”; same same.
“And Trump strongly supported Romney. We should deport both of them.”
I also supported Romney and voted for him. That was the only way to get Obama out.
I supposed I could have retained “purity” and stayed home, thereby voting for Obama. Makes a lot of sense.
And why this is so important, is that leaning-GOP voters have been tuning in about the time of the first debate, which is about the same time in the last two elections that Democrats were busing low-info voters to early poll sites!
Trump is engaging people now. And he doesn't say, 'send me your money', or 'sign up for my campaign', just 'here's why you should vote for me'. It's a paradigm shift that has the Democrats and the GOPe and (a few too many FReepers) shitting their pants...
>>Either way, I voted for McCain because of Palin. Does that exclude me from the approved list of conservatives forever?
Of course. There are about 20 people on FR who have “never” had a non-Conservative thought or action in their entire sainted lives. They have declared that the rest of us have no principles and that we are all Communist plants who have lurked here for a decade or more just waiting for Trump to run so we can take off our masks. Now, NR has 22.
Unfortunately, taking out the vanguard does little else.
IF this paradigm holds out, I’d love to see the routing of the infestations of govt; termination of employment of those on the taxpayer teet, whole agencies/departments, regs/rules...
A return of TRUE govt, back to the People
If these suits spent more time getting real results rather than making money off of conservatism, then maybe people would listen.
Like what do any of them do anyway? Write a “scathing” piece about Obama that got passed between blogs, only to then go into the trash bin?
For all of the big talk from radio, and these blogs, we have NOTHING to show for it, but we are expected to follow THEIR dictates in order to be in good with conservatism as they dictate it is?
bump
Not fan of Romney or his weasel pet, Paul Ryan, but I have to wonder if we would be having the problems with ISIS like we do now. Obama let them grow.
I saw a great meme....roll of toilet paper...
NRO NOW COMES IN TWO PLY!~
Well one does need to keep up with what your opposition is saying I suppose. So I'll just sacrifice and watch her anyway.
Even more abuse of Breaking News sidebar.
National RINOview ceased being a conservative magazine years ago, and now all of a sudden their RINOS are espousing their “conservative” manifesto. Sorry folks, but your conservative credentials left the station long ago.
“And Trump strongly supported Romney.”
I supported Romney over Obama too. Do I also get deported?
Idiot...
If only we could.
I bet, Glenn Beck was behind the idea, that was probably discussed in private months ago.
Amen to that, the rinos are as evil as the dems and fems and racists facitsts of the left, like Obama.
Who do these buffoons from National Review Magazine think they are!!! I am a “Barry Goldwater: supporter from 1958 when I was 18 years old!!! These low life folks that call themselves pundits rank as bottom feeder, morons in my eyes. Don’t you dare “pee” down my back and tell me it’s raining!!! I am for Donald Trump now, and will be voting for him, come election day November, 2016.
Why? Because..he is a man not, of words, but action!!! All you vermin folks do is ponrtificate, yap, say nothing meaningful and kiss up to the likes of Obama & company, those that are working to destroy our American Republic...while you keep your cushy deals and status...and we, the people suffer, with each passing day!!!
Well, elite, ego maniacs...your little gig of ganging up on “the Donald” has failed miserably...and, you all look and are the stuck up, buttheads you really are!!! LMAO!!!
So true. The chattering class are a useless bunch of opportunists just like the Congress.
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