Posted on 02/17/2016 12:03:45 PM PST by Elderberry
If Trump doesn't fizzle now, Republicans will have to ask themselves what their party actually does stand for
Well, this is going to be an interesting week -- a week in which the ultimate Donald Trump question may, or may not, be answered: Can he say absolutely anything at all and still win the Republican nomination? It has already been established that there is no upper limit to the boorishness he is permitted by his foolish followers. But in Saturday's debate, Trump firmly established himself as a policy apostate in the GOP race. And the question now is, will conservatives tolerate a candidate who is well to the left of the Democratic mainstream on some crucial national-security issues, and also a supporter of Planned Parenthood?
We knew most of this before, but Trump placed the following markers in the South Carolina debate:
He once again claimed opposition to the Iraq war. This is a position that even most Republicans agree with nowadays, but Trump took it in the harshest possible way, by making it a personal attack on President George W. Bush. And then he launched himself into cloud-cuckooland by asserting that Bush had knowingly lied about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. He "lied us into war" was, I think, the Trumpian term of art. This is a position that only the left of the left has entertained. The truth is, the U.S. intelligence community was absolutely convinced Saddam had chemical and biological weapons, but not so certain about nuclear capability. The Bush Administration -- especially the Cheney-Rumsfeld phalanx -- did many questionable and some outright sordid things, but they went to war actually thinking there were WMD in Iraq. It was still one of the two or three worst decisions ever made by an American President,
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
It’s curious how only Republicans have to explain what they stand for.
No one asks the democrats that- because I guess we all know they are for “the people”
Wow Joe “Cannot tell the truth about Iraq because it is seen as helping Bush” Klein, you really think after publicly exposing yourself as just another Democrat party shill in 2006, anyone takes anything you say seriously any more?
Heads exploding...heads exploding...love it...Go Trump Go!!
TIME magazine, truth arbiter?
Trump’s not going to fizzle because his supporters don’t care what he says. At this point it’s all theatrics and entertainment. Substance doesn’t matter.
Donald Trump cannot be a truth teller, for he disagrees with Ted Cruz, which automatically makes him a liar.
Uh, Trump is running AGAINST the party.
So let me get this straight - TIME is now arguing that there WERE WMD’s?
Liberals have no shame.
Blah blah blah, Trump is terrible, blah blah blah.
Liberal concern trolls gonna troll.
He is 5,000 lies into this campaign and someone writes a title like that??
We quit taking Time back when toilet paper was invented.
Well it will stand for Americans electing an American who doesn’t give a crap about either party and maybe it’s time for both to go to hell as they aint done crap for US in the last 7 years except take away our freedoms incrementally and piss US off!
Go Trump go!
“foolish followers.”
Time had better get ready for Trump incoming. He had been praising Time for a positive article they wrote a few weeks ago.
Go Trump!
and now 500 posts from trumpeters who will attack the messenger rather than address the following from the article: will the trumpeters “tolerate a candidate who is well to the left of the Democratic mainstream”
my bet is that they’re principles are so muddled and malleable the answer is sadly, yes. And our Republic will die because of their perfidy.
Liberals have no shame.
There was time before time when Time didn’t exist. And it was good.
(Yea, ponder that)
Trump’s supporters are rebelling against the GOP! They don’t care what his opponent say. And they don’t give a fig about the GOP or the idiot pundit class.
Don’t look now but the voters have been lied to too many times and are mighty pissed!
Can Cruz say anything and win the nomination?
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