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He has spent 20 years observing how the DC conservative media endorses candidates who mock conservative principles and values.

One of the really good points: “Donald Trump is the only Republican candidate who seems to have any inclination to act strictly in America’s interest. More importantly, he is the only Republican candidate who is willing to even address the problem. Trump may not have been right to say that we need to stop letting more Muslims into the country or, at least, examine the issue, but he wasn’t crazy to suggest it either. And like when he said the obvious about Iraq, the first people to condemn him and deny the obvious were conservatives. Somehow, being conservative now means denying the obvious and saying idiotic fantasies like “Islam is always peaceful” or “Our war is not with a radical strain of Islam.” Uh, sorry, but no it is not, and yes it is. And if getting a president who at least understands that means voting for Trump, then I guess I am not a conservative.”

Amen brother.

And I am a lifelong Democrat but I cannot support HilLIARy

(wow! thats really easy)

Take the nomination from Trump with a brokered convention and I am done with the GOP forever.

The better way to understand this current situation is tounderstand the divide in Conservatism between the Dogmatics vrs the Realists.

This is an old divide in Conservatism. The Dogmatist care nothing about political realities, only the purity of the dogma matters to them. The Realist understands you have to be able to advance the political ball down the field to achieve the goals of the dogma.

Reagan, who was a realist, wrote about it.

By Ronald Reagan in his autobiography An American Life

“When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn’t like it. “Compromise” was a dirty word to them and they wouldn’t face the fact that we couldn’t get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don’t get it all, some said, don’t take anything. I’d learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: ‘I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.’ If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.

The GOPe's definition of "constitutional conservatism" would have Americans believe the the Constitution was meant to be a suicide pack, and the conservatism of our founding fathers was meant to be used as license to cannibalize America’s wealth with unfair trade pacts and to supplant the America people with foreign illegal invaders and rubber-stamped unvetted legal immigrants.

If the choice is between American patriotism and sovereignty and GOPe "conservatism," I'll chose the former - just as our founding fathers did.

But trump is not a Bush! Oh, he just hired on the Bush family.

Carly has endorsed Cruz! But she was trashing him just days ago.

Down is up, up is down....

Well I have a real problem with this guy's defense of The Donald's statements on Iraq.

If you want to argue that invading Iraq was a bad idea-- fine. But please spare me the leftist b.s. about "Bush lied." You only show yourself to be a chump or a liar.

That's a good article, and he makes the best case possible for Trump. Without insult insulting anyone, I might add.

I still think he falls into the easy trap of blaming the GOP in general for not being conservative enough, which I think ignores political realities. And I think he's really missing the mark by punting on the "big government" issue.

But I still respect the opinion and the way it was expressed.

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Selected Trump articles on FR, with links, from 12:00 AM to 4:30 PM EST, 3/9/16:
Could Trump win over some black voters? FoxNews
A Trump Schtick Explainer for “Experts" –Limbaugh, “damning with faint praise”
Rubio for GOP, no endorsement for either Democrat –ChicagoTrib endorsement
Why I support Trump – and resent the elites trying to destroy him –NYPost
Who Trump Offends with His Salty Language –Scott Adams of Dilbert
Jeb to Meet with 3 Candidates – but Not Trump – before FL Primary –NYT
Donald Trump Wins North Dakota Straw Poll
Trump poised to win NC [Trump 41 Cruz 27 Rubio 14 Kasich 11] –WRAL News poll
Unapologetic Hollywood star dishes on why Trump’s his pick (Stephen Baldwin)
Romney Reads "Mean Tweets" From Trump, Trump Supporters (video)
Poll: Clinton, Sanders demolish Trump in general election NBC/WSJ
Primary Election Numbers & Analysis –Jeff Head, 3/09
I voted for Trump to destroy the GOP –CNBC
Republicans sue State Dept for Clinton emails –Reuters
About that Mexican President’s Nazi Talk against Trump... –IBD
Trump takes MI, HI, MS, Cruz takes ID. Delegate count still a horse race
Dinesh D’Souza’s trailer for ‘Hillary’s America’ is simply astonishing –Herman Cain
Trump would take much of his GOP base with him as third-party candidate –Rasmussen poll
8 Reasons Trump Is Unstoppable –NewsMax
Cruz: I'm fine with contested convention
TWO NEW POLLS Show Trump Leading Gov. Kasich in Ohio [Quinnipiac & CNN]
Those Trump Steaks the Donald Served Tonight? They Weren’t Trump Steaks. –DailyCaller
Key Presidential Primaries Results by State [March 8, 2016 MI; HI; ID; MS] –Politico
Carly Fiorina endorses Ted Cruz
What Fiorina Endorsing Cruz Really Means –Treehouse
Trump 40, Cruz 23, Rubio 14.5, Kasich 11–Reuters poll
Presidential primaries delegate tracker (as of 3/9, 8:30 AM ET)
Warmongers Hate Trump –Townhall
Why was Cruz a US citizen at birth and I was not? (vanity)
Walter Williams: The Unseen Cost of Saving Jobs with Tariffs
Trump crushes Ronald Reagan’s Republican Party –Joe Scarborough, WaPo
HuffPo’s Grim: 54 Private Jets at Meeting to Stop Trump –Breitbart
Angry Cokie Asks Trump: Are You 'Proud' of Promoting Schoolkid Racism? –NewsBusters
Conservative Purists Are Capitulating with Support of Trump
Trump Turns Victory Speech Into QVC Pitch: Steaks, Wine And Mags! –TPM
Arizona Sheriff Can’t Take It Anymore, Spills Obama’s Dark Secret He Never Wanted Out –Western Journalism
Sheriff Babeu: Obama has ‘handcuffed’ Border Patrol –azfamily.com
Jon Voight Endorses Donald Trump for President
Post Mini-Tuesday Election Night Debrief – “The Kitchen Sink Missed” –Treehouse
You Won’t Believe What They Did to the Ohio Ballot to Stop Trump
Primary Night Takeaways: Clinton Shaken and Trump Roars Back –NYT
ESPN Removes Mike Ditka From ‘Sunday NFL Countdown’ after Pro-Trump Interview
Donald J. Trump in St. Louis, MO (Fri 3/11)
Donald J. Trump in Cleveland, OH (Sat 3/12)
Donald J. Trump in Dayton, OH (Sat 3/12)
Trump: ‘I Want to Thank the Special Interests and Lobbyists’ for Driving My Numbers –Breitbart
LIVE THREAD: Trump rally 3/9/2016 in Fayetteville, NC @ 7pm EST @ Crown Center Coliseum
Statement by Better Business Bureau (Trump University)
Trump University Plaintiff Seeks to Withdraw from Suit, Fearing Public Trial
Allied super PAC rushing to Rubio’s rescue in FL –WaPo
His Presidential Bid Over, Ben Carson Has Big Polling Lead [for Rubio's seat!] –USNews
Poll: Trump leads Rubio in Florida, Kasich in Ohio –CNN/ORC
Paul Ryan’s Plans Stopped Cold by Trump, Cruz Insurgency –Breitbart
Trump Takes Hawaii
It's getting harder to believe Trump can be beaten –CNN
Trump takes Michigan in repudiation of Republican establishment –Reuters
Donald Trump Jr. 35 minutes video. Same as his father.
Free Republic 2016 Caucus Open Discussion Thread L

The writer makes some good points. I don't agree with him on all of them, but overall, he makes some excellent arguments. Especially the hypocrisy of the GOP establishment giving us failed “moderate” candidates repeatedly, but now attacking Trump for not being conservative enough. Or Republican enough. As if that is what they really want. No, the truth is, the GOPe would rather have Hillary. That fact alone is enough to turn me into a Trump supporter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuVcw9HuTho

Sure, we signed up to give our lives for our country, and I will never regret doing so. But doesn’t our commitment require a corresponding responsibility on the part of the president to only expect us to do so when it is both necessary and in the national interest? And since when is bringing democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan so much in the national interest that it is worth killing or maiming 50,000 Americans to try to achieve?

Great post...

Lots of wisdom here.

I’m not sure if conservativism will be defined to obscurity. But for now, can’t we all agree to be PATRIOTS?