What has happened to Free Republic? [What difference at this point can it possibly make?]

[katwoman5779]

Since Obuma was elected to POTUS, I have been coming to Free Republic to get news, opinions and a few laughs. Most of the serious posts were bemoaning the out of control government and what could be done about it. "Oh Whoa is Me!". Then along comes a constitutional conservative. For the first time since Ronald Reagan, we have a constitutional candidate running for the GOP nomination. This man was elected by conservatives to go to Washington and stand up to the elites that no longer listen to the American people. He didn't go to Washington and "fall in" with the crowd. He went there and stood up to them just like he said it would - calling a spade a spade. I'm sorry, but I don't understand how otherwise intelligent people can fall for the likes of Donald Trump. This man was donating to the same people we were fighting to throw out of office the last eight years. Suddenly he is a conservative after years of joining with the liberals to promote big fat bloated government. He is not an outsider. He has been greasing the palms of the slime bags in Washington for 30 years. He can't even define what conservatism is. Wake up America. You are no better than the sycophants that suck up to Obuma. You can't see that Trump is just pushing your buttons with his rhetoric - just like Obuma pushed his sycophants buttons. The hate I see on Free Republic for Ted Cruz, Mark Levin and all the other great conservative leaders remind me of liberal websites. It is disgusting.

[txhurl]

Way worse. Everybody seems to have graduated from the dalereed charmschool in the last couple of months.

[neverbluffer]

Thank you

[McGruff]

Your last post was 4 months ago. You don’t have any room to complain.

[ripnbang]

Your guy may be a rebel or a maverick in the Senate, but for a lot of voters he is -- as a grad of two Ivy League schools, a Senator, the husband of an investment banker, and a former Supreme Court law clerk, corporate lawyer and government regulator -- the embodiment of the Establishment.

Ding, ding, ding...we have a winner!

[RitaOK]

” Emotion has overtaken reason. “ *******

LOL! Emotion?

Yours, or ours?

You really need some new material. That one is old and never worked.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

Seriously, wth is with all these Cruz vanities that read like unhinged nut cases?

Must be a living hell to be supporting a guy who has proven to be a big fat fraud!

[napscoordinator]

Yeah right. Cruz was rejected because he is not trustworthy not because he is a Christian. The excuses are getting good though. Please continue. I and many others find them hilarious. I won’t say your bitter, but.......

[neverbluffer]

I agree...that NAILED IT!

[PhilDragoo]

This is a thinking person's conservative arena.

This is the crucible.

I went to New York City with Dick Allen's YAF crew to draft Goldwater at the Buckley youth organization's national convention.

Reagan gave a stirring speech, "A Time for Choosing"--that passion drives this discussion we have with Jim Robinson's forum.

I, the perennial optimist, envisioned a binary helix of Trump and Cruz with complementary skills used to destroy the Onambla-Hillary sewage plant.

Politics is reality.

Come Cruz to take on Neil Bush--host to Hinckley's brother he would have been--what a get.

"Voodoo economics" and "read my lips" betrays the false believer.

Goldman Sachs? Neil Bush? And the lowest attacks on the one candidate who has set the tone.

That tone is "We are mad as hell and we are not going to take it any more."

[Conservative_caterer]

There are only seemingly two starkly differentiated sides to the Trump/no Trump controversy. It is heretical to the Trump crowd just to be in between, much less against him.
Personally, I will be able to vote for him if that’s all that’s left, but I’ll still be shaking my head at all the formerly intelligent people he had hood winked into complete slavish devotion.

[xenia]

Judy, What you said is EXACTLY my take on this. What amazes me is that here is a man who is shaking up the globalists, his enemies are the enemies of conservatism. If Trump is so much an establishment guy as some are saying…….the left such as George Soros should be happy. But they are not ! Just why is that? Stop and think about it.

I don’t think we will ever have the opportunity again to elect a person who is really an outsider – someone who isn’t taking money from controlling entities. How many people can fund their own campaign?

I battled in deciding whether to support Trump or Cruz, but the way the progressives in and outside of the party are responding with such vitriol to Trump (and not to Cruz) I found worth noting.

Why those on the right are also so angry with Trump and fail to give him some fairness is beyond me. The radio pundits supported Romney, remember? But the disrespect they show for Trump is beyond the pale.

[Bubba Gump Shrimp]

-—I heard it even devolved into cats and mice agree.
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Oh my! I didn’t realize we had gotten to that point yet!

[JayGalt]

At least with Cruz we have some track record.

That is completely true, it's just the emphasis that's wrong..

SOME track record you have there Ted, you made deals and got snookered, called Mitch a liar because you were outfoxed or maybe it was Kabuki theatre so the public would believe you were a conservative not a globalist, although since you are on record wanting to increase H1B Visas 500% I'm not betting the farm that you are conservative.

[novemberslady]

Yea. Me too. The thing is, either Trump or Cruz is ok by me

You and I are on the same page with this.
My choice is for Trump first.

I would vote for Cruz if he gets the nomination (fairly)-in spite of my 'New York' values (laughing here)

My only problem with cruz is beck.
All kidding aside-seriously (what if he decides to hurt someone)

[AppyPappy]

Recycled post from 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012

[citizen]

Thanks, I’ll pass your Trump link around.

[Veracious Poet]

Unfortunately, it appears once again the party is split.

I’ve been waiting to register, to see if the GOPe forces Trump out & (I)ndependent, but my gut tells me that this feud will drag into November, at which time Hitlery will be coronated as a direct result.

Of course, most of the GOPe have already voiced their support of the Clintoons over Trump, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised...

FWFS

[Wissa]

And those issues are immigration, trade and foreign policy. But, if there is a perfect, pure conservative position for each of those...

As near as I can tell, from what shows up in the "conservative" media, those conservative positions would be:

1) Immigration: Open borders are good. Cheap labor increases business profits.

2) Trade: Unlimited free trade is good. American businesses can buy from foreign companies, or set up their own manufacturing operations overseas and increase business profits.

3) Foreign policy: America need to be involved in conflicts all over the world. Businesses can make a lot of money with all that the government spends on blowing stuff up.

[neverbluffer]

Or that he was for TPA before he was against it!

[Iowa David]

You are 100% correct.