Posted on 02/22/2016 6:51:51 AM PST by C19fan
Erick Erickson will no longer support Donald Trump if he is the Republican presidential nominee, the conservative pundit declared on Monday, citing in particular the Manhattan businessman's support of Planned Parenthood. "I have become convinced that Donald Trump’s pro-life conversion is a conversion of convenience," he wrote in a post on his website, The Resurgent. "Life is the foremost cause in how I vote. Therefore I will not be voting for Donald Trump at all. Ever."
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Sigh.
I’m not a huge Trump fan, but this is ridiculous. Trump has stated pretty explicitly (more than on most other issues) where he stands on this and has been pretty consistent. No funding for PP abortion, he supports the “other stuff” they do, but would cut off their funding if they continued to do abortions (which they will). Anything else anyone (like Erickson) has to say is just speculation based on partisanship.
Trump was pro-abortion in 1999. He was NOT pro-abortion in 2013. A lot of people - including Ronald Reagan himself, as well as a lot of folks on this forum - had similar conversions.
One of several reasons I switched from preferring Cruz about a month ago: The fighter in him, I just posted this to someone on another thread, but it’s that fighter thing you mentioned: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3400166/posts?page=51#51
FU Erick the Red...
Again
Volume and emotion does not substitute for reason. Screaming insults at Trump is not a rational argument for your candidate.
You cannot be this oblivious to the fact that your potions is based wholly on your distaste for Trump’s Alpha Male persona and not on any sort of thoughtful rational analysis can you?
“A Republican candidate can’t go after Conservative candidates the way Trump has done and expect Conservatives to turn out in the general election.”
Trump is not a conservative nor a republican, he is a liberal democrat. I agree with Erickson’s statement.
“I have become convinced that Donald Trump’s pro-life conversion is a conversion of convenience,”
The Donald’s whole conversion from liberal democrat to conservative Republican is a “conversion of convenience”. I don’t believe Trump has or had a philosophy or conviction, I believe his whole life he has adapted to or said whatever was convenient and suited his needs at the time. I don’t think he can help himself, I believe he has a mental or personality disorder. I’ll not vote for Trump.
That little fairy-faced dipstick is feeling jilted, so he squeals like a little girl. Pay no attention to that thing behind the curtain.
It has been a setup. The fix was always in. We, the Republic, have been loosing a war of financial attrition for decades. We, the Republic are engaged in a war with those who govern us. Drastic measures are required to defeat this enemy in order to stop the bleeding that each of us are seeing in the depreciation of our savings, the constant onslaught of taxes, fees, and licenses. Each of them designed to remove our ability to live free.
If a slave is a person who works for no money, then a paid person who works with no money left for savings or investment is therefore a slave.
The Communists are very good at planning each move, they have been at it for over sixty years, to bury us. They are so close to succeeding.
Trump has stepped in and has sensed our rage.We want to throw our shoes into the machinery. We want to turn over the apple carts and toss tea into the harbor. Trump is giving us a voice. He is giving our children and grandchildren a fighting chance of enjoying the life that our parents fought and spilled blood in Europe and Japan so as to impart liberty to ourselves.
No, we will no longer hide in the shadow of political correctness.
No, we will no longer stand idle in the face of the globalist Red Menace.
No, we will not play the game of choosing which Socialist will rob our children.
No, we will not play the game of choosing which Socialist will import an army of decapitating, lawless, savages into our home to eradicate Freedom and the American Way.
ANY and EVERY politician who will not build a wall is declaring he/she DOES NOT CARE IF YOU DIE!
I do not think Trump is a conservative.
I do not think Trump is morally pious and pure.
I do not think Trump is void of indiscretions or mistakes.
I do believe that any candidate that is a true conservative, morally pure, pious, and has walked the straight and narrow...would not stand a chance against the the globalist red menace that is systematically deconstructing our nation.
No, far from it.
Right now we need our own paladin of chaotic malice with a depraved sense of overly vengeful justice that will stand not for giving quarter. Right now we need our own Son of a Bitch glorious bastard, faults and all. We need to stomp out the treachery of political correctness that perpetuates racial discontent and has created Europe-istan, a Nuclear Iran, as well as ushering in a new world order of penniless servitude consisting of the entire earthly population bowing to but a few of the elite socialist megalomaniacs.
We need our own monster.
Ted Cruz may well be as advertised. No one knows. Four years ago, no one knew who he was.
He is young, deploy the Trump Bomb now, it is an ugly weapon of mass destruction that will result in some collateral damage, but it is required.
Alas, we have run out of time.
It will take many Ted Cruz clones to restore order in the aftermath.
Is Dick (from Illinois) a relative of yours?
How could anyone be more liberal than:
-signing a liberalized California abortion law - 1967
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yAlJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dAUNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5620%2C3433380
-giving amnesty to millions of illegal aliens in America - 1986
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Z7M0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=YCEGAAAAIBAJ&pg=7219%2C665572
-endorsing the Brady bill against the 2nd amendment - 1991
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UpwzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0TIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=3945%2C5172761
-coming out in support of NAFTA - 1992
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=q0dQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=11UDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3988%2C3599740
Yet Ronald Reagan did all of that.
Ronald Reagan was no Ronald Reagan after he performed all of those liberal actions. ;-)
Name a liberal thing that Trump has done that is worse than those 4 liberal actions that Reagan took.
Regan did real harm to the American people
-he enabled the murder of thousands of babies by his signing and approval of the liberalized California abortion laws.
-he hurt American jobs, wages and personal safety by giving amnesty to MILLIONS of illegal aliens. He also set a bad precedent for the future.
-his support helped to pass the Brady bill and made it harder for decent Americans to defend themselves.
-his support of NAFTA has led to the mess America is in today. We lost jobs, wealth and his support of NAFTA made America a worse place to live.
“Volume and emotion does not substitute for reason. Screaming insults at Trump is not a rational argument for your candidate.”
But apparently it’s an okay strategy to be used against those who oppose Trump and their supporters.
I've seen this proposed several times now by Trump supporters. Yet Cruz and his legal team clearly disagree with your candidate on the issue of NBC. Why do so many Trump supporters praise Cruz' legal abilities but won't take his word on this when he feels that the issue is settled law?
They will vote to confirm him.
I doubt it. Cruz has made too many enemies in the Senate with his abrasive, go-against-the-establishment style. I suspect a lot of Republicans will give him tepid support but won't do the heavy lifting needed to get the nomination past a tough cloture vote and ultimately through the Senate. Several Republicans would probably come out against him.
Cruz would have a much better chance of becoming Attorney General in a Trump Administration. The Senate is much, more likely to defer to a new president with a cabinet choice than with a Supreme Court seat.
“The socially-minded voter will never vote for a populist fiscal conservative/socially moderate candidate.”
Which populist fiscal conservative would that be?
“Saying you support something or talking about it isn’t actually an accomplishment.”
Except if its Trump, in which case talking about is is the greatest accomplishment in human history and reason enough to vote for him even though he previously took a diametrically opposed position.
“Is Dick (from Illinois) a relative of yours?”
No. I’m also not related to Mike Durbin, James Durbin or Allison Durbin either. What does that have to do with anything?
Sorry, but every time a Cruz supporter throws “values” in the face of anyone, I just roll my eyes now. Cruz got into bed with some of the slimiest, unprincipled campaign people I’ve ever witnessed in my life. If you support the Cruz campaign, that is fine. If you refuse to vote for Trump, that’s also fine. But at this point, I don’t think any of you Cruz supporters should get a free pass for playing the “values” card.
Cruz’s campaign has shown that it doesn’t uphold any kind of “values”, most certainly not Christian values or traditional conservative values. They’re playing to win, and they’re playing as dirty as they possibly can. And in failing to act, Cruz is supporting it.
Got news for you. The GOP electorate is divided. Politico didn’t do it.
Note to Erickson: Who cares?
I’m confident you’re not an idiot and actually read my entire post where I explicitly addressed that. It’s not an accomplishment for Trump either; it is still slightly different because when he addressed it he got the entire country and other countries (even the pope) to make it a top conversation piece
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