Posted on 01/26/2016 10:56:21 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Conservative talk radio host Mark Levin said that Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump was similar to an establishment Republican compromiser after the real estate mogul pledged earlier to work closely with Democratic leaders in Congress.
"You might as well vote for Jeb Bush," Levin said. "I bet he would get along with Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer. Lindsey Graham gets along with them great. Marco Rubio got along with them great."
In an interview Tuesday on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Trump said, "I've always had a good relationship with Nancy Pelosi. I've never had a problem. Reid will be gone." He added, "I was always very good with Schumer. I was close to Schumer in many ways. It's important that you get along."
While speaking well of House Minority Leader Pelosi of California, the likely next Democratic Senate Leader Schumer of New York and retiring Senate Democratic leader Reid of Nevada, Trump called his Republican primary opponent Texas Sen. Ted Cruz "nasty."
"He just talks up Reid. He just talks up Pelosi. He just talks up Schumer and he trashes the hell out of the most conservative member of the United States Senate," Levin said.
"It's not a matter of getting along with people and cutting deals," Levin said. "It's a matter of moving the country, persuading the country, persuading the Republican party to follow you," Levin continued. "That's what a statesman does. That's what Churchill did. That's what Thatcher did. That's what Reagan did. That's what you have to do, or you might as well vote for Jeb Bush. I bet he would get along with Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer. Lindsey Graham gets along with them great. Marco Rubio got along with them great. For some people this is perfectly fine. I'm troubled by it."
I would not have known who all these people really were if Trump had not come along. I’m taking names.
I’ve never seen such a fit being thrown in all my life. And I go way back...
I don't "hate" him, but I do have his number.
Con artist.
Mark Levin is a total whore for Ted Cruz. Such a disappointment he has become.
Good for you.
If we only got 50%, it would be more than Boehner, McConnell, Ryan and two Bushes ever got us. And a good negotiator gers mire than 50%.
They don’t get the fact that if they had done this to obama and stopped him, Trump would not have had to come on the scene.. and we would not have had to hang our hat on him because all the rest failed us completely. We are angry.. yes, and it’s your fault for talking obama to death and doing NOTHING about what he was doing.. for 8 years you sat and talked.. did nothing to help the people. This is the rebellion you should have had way before 2015.
Cool your jets, Levin.
Like!
Speaking of which, he lied his ass off to Texas voters, claiming he and his wife liquidated their networth and spent their savings. All Cruz did was get 2 loans for about a million dollars... which apparently he paid back with campaign contributions.
Cruz is as big a fraud as Levin.
I don’t disagree that anything is better than what we have now, but my fear is warranted. It’s easy to make us cheer on the campaign stump, but it’s going to really hard to move the granite mountain of dysfunction known as the beltway.
Ruh-Ro!
You are consistent at least, everyone is a fraud a liar or worse save comrade sta.. oops I mean Mr. Trump
Yep. He’s worn out his welcome.
You warned me
My 15 year old is livid with him
Between this and eastern Washington he’s about ready for the revolution
So what? It’s better to not even budge those bastards who are selling out the future of Our Country?
Are YOU on board, with returning to Our God given Purpose- or not?
Are you sure you're not mistaking hate for anger?
I'll tell you where the anger comes from -- it's because Trump has a long history of being a moderate leftist and a whole lotta people who should know better are happier than hell about voting for this leftist self-promoting showoff celebrity. That would be bad enough any time, but now -- when we have Ted Cruz as an option, no less!!
That ticks me off.
If I can prove it, it's what they are!
If Trump wasn’t running, Mark would be having a daily on air stroke because JEB! would be the frontrunner and Cruz would have been relegated to the back of the Bus by the GOP.
Good, bad or indifferent, Trump has given every FReeper a gift, the complete and utter marginalizing of the GOPe.
This is the same thing EVERYONE here has been bitching about doing without success since 2008, if not before.
As for me, I sit back and watch knowing whoever gets the Republican Nomination gets my Vote to prevent ANY DemoncRat from continuing the Obama Legacy of destroying the Republic.
Since we have people here who still insist that Romney would have been worse than Obama, even after the last seven Years of this Reign of Terror, I’ve come to the conclusion that these FR Battles will continue until the Internet gets swallowed up when the Sun Supernovas in four Billion Years.
Carry on, I’ll make the Popcorn.
Do you really think Levin is saying “I bet talk up Cruz cuz my girlfriend’s kid works for his campaign”?
By that standard you would have to believe Donald would nominate his pro abortion liberal whackadoo judge to the supreme court.
If, is a very large concept. I am sure or at least suspect is that you will not support your argument by fact but instead will do as Donald J Trump does and bluster and call everyone who disagrees with your interpretation stupid or a loser. I hope you prove me wrong in this and do support your claims with something more than I heard it from another person or is obvious he’s lying his ass off. But I doubt it. Entered by Google Voice
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