They just do not want to acknowledge or accept the simple truth.
Posted on 02/17/2016 12:54:38 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
It has become increasingly clear that the "self-funded" candidate in the Republican presidential primary, Donald J. Trump, will destroy the GOP's chances to win in November if he is not the nominee. Leftist groups are ecstatic over Trump’s "Bush lied, people died," mantra over the Iraq war. Internet trolls for Vladimir Putin are firmly behind Trump, saying he has the right recipe for accommodating Russia.
...
How did this happen? Conservatives who should know better went beyond praising his attacks on political correctness to welcoming him as a legitimate conservative candidate for president. Last year, Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the American Conservative Union (ACU) and co-founder of Cove Strategies, a lobbying firm, went on MSNBC and was asked by Chris Matthews if Trump is a "plausible president." He said "Yeah. Definitely. Definitely." He also said, "I actually know Donald Trump," in regard to some of the businessman's other controversial comments. Such remarks sent the message to conservatives nationwide that Trump was one of them.
Ironically, Schlapp is the former political director for President George W. Bush, now accused by Trump of lying to get the U.S. into the Iraq War. How well does Schlapp really know Trump?
It seemed to start when the ACU declared Trump "an American patriot" and announced he was addressing the 2013 conference of the ACU-sponsored Conservative Political Action Conference. That same year, his Donald J. Trump Foundation gave $50,000 to the ACU Foundation. The Donald J. Trump Foundation also gave $25,000 to The American Spectator Foundation, the organization responsible for publishing The American Spectator magazine...
(Excerpt) Read more at aim.org ...
Liked your reply so much had to respond twice!!!!
“A lot of people had already turned against the Conservative movement. That’s why they gravitated to Trump.â€
That’s pretty obvious now.
And what did the Conservative movement actually DO to prevent this?
He’s turning people against it.
How many times have conservatives said they want to avoid messy foreign entanglements. How deeply have the uniparty idiots traveled into economic and political foreign entanglements run by a global elite who are mostly hostile to the US and Israel?
The uniparty has totally ditched all social conservativism even while calling themselves conservatives. People who think of themselves as uniparty conservatives are far from it.
Trump is inspiring a lot of conservatives who had given up in the face of uniparty power to come back into the process and the globalists are wetting their panties. America is rising.
” they will spend the next 4-8 years doing everything they can to undermine any GOP President who is not their guy “
Because of their so righteous pious Christianity you know.
Yes, you are probably right. But apparently the voters are completely fed up with the GOP’s repeated failures to act. In fact, the GOP openly declared war on the conservative base in the last two presidential elections. Now it’s coming back to bite them in the ass.
The REALLY stupid thing is that Cruz CAN’T do a damn thing about abortion NOT A DAMN THING!!!!! Trump WILL build a wall!!!
“It sounds to me that the Trumpetts are telling us to discard the Constitution with its separation of powers, states rights and Bill of Rights in order to rule effectively. The classic “end justifies the means†argument.”
Who told you that Trump wants to discard the Constitution?
They just do not want to acknowledge or accept the simple truth.
What “Conservative Movement”? You mean the one that is comprised of inside the beltway pretenders? The one that hasn’t won a single cultural or social battle in 60 years?
Dang, you nailed it big time!
The founding fathers were all protectionists and founded government with tariffs. I guess the modern “Conservative movement” didn’t like that part so they just forgot about it. Kind of like how el Rushbo left that “little” fact out of his books on the Revolution.
I have to agree with you. I've long said that the Dem's don't have to win with Sanders or Clinton since they got their guy, Trump, playing in the other side's sandbox.
Ultimately, Cruz is the best candidate from an ideological perspective. Failing Cruz, it is far better for the future of conservatism to be at the hands of Trump than it has been or would be at the hands of McCain, Romney, and the other candidates presently running.
Those candidates, if they were/are hated by the Left, are only hated because they were not as open about their liberalism as the Democrat was. Trump is hated because despite his liberal positions, he is conservative and unapologetically anti-Left on a number of important positions.
I agree with you - it is the classic “end justifies the means” argument.
That’s about the size of it.
“Enjoy it while it lasts. Trump’s boorish behavior - while winning about a third of the conservative vote in a large field - is alienating almost everyone else, and if he is the nominee, he will get clobbered in November. “
Clobbered by who,,the Conservatives who don’t approve of him?
Really? The folks who have been bought and sold for decades by the modern day Stalwarts are trying to argue Trump has bought an election?
The Republican party has no one to blame about the state it is in than itself. Sell the nation down the toilet for decades to pad your money mens pockets and then when someone who shouldn’t have had any chance of winning shows up and simply says “I will put America first” you are so damned compromised you can’t even beat him or coopt his simple message, but he’s the villian?
The political class has lost complete touch with the people, in most of history this would have resulted in at least a few of their heads on pikes... thankfully our founders offered a different path to throw the bums out. Republican Party and far to many conservatives need to wake up a bit to the realities of the state of the electorate, and exactly why we are where we are today. Trump didn’t create this situation... decades of neglect and traitorous behavior did.
Here is the problem.
In 2010 nearly all of them said “We need to get back to the constitution” Hire us and we will do that. Well, they got the house, held it and gained the Senate with the promise that “We will do everything you want”
They promised everything, everywhere, everytime they showed their faces.
Did they lie? Well did they?
That is what Trumps populism is about.
No matter the next president, that man will have to continue to rule by decree. Because the legislature is corrupt beyond repair UNLESS those at the head of this snake are removed.
“Trump will not be president. His negatives among independents are very high, and no Republican can win with only half of the Republican vote. And if he isn’t the Republican nominee, most of his supporters will stay home in November, because they believe that every Republican politician except Trump is a “RINO.” So, either way, the GOP loses. “
Which Republican do you think is most likely to garner more than half the Republican vote?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
