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Trump leaves the conservative establishment arrogant and unmoored
Washington Post ^ | April 2, 2016 | Joe Scarborough

Posted on 04/04/2016 12:30:11 AM PDT by detective

When members of Manhattan’s media elite come to Mark Halperin’s home for dinner, Halperin likes to ask his guests whether they have spent more time in Paris or Staten Island. More often than not, his guests select the destination that does not offer regular ferry service from Battery Park.

Halperin’s dinner quiz provides a glimpse into what conservatives have long mocked as the cloistered existence of liberal elites who report on a nation they don’t understand. Republican critics have long complained that these media elites are schooled, spend their summers and live most of their lives in urbane enclaves that provide little insight into how the rest of America lives.

But in 2016, conservative commentators are sounding as cocooned from their own political party as any liberal writing social commentary for the New Yorker or providing political analysis for ABC News. Even after the passing of Antonin Scalia and the Paris and San Bernadino, Calif., attacks, many right-leaning pundits are spending their days scolding readers and declaring that no true conservative or God-fearing Christian could support Donald Trump. This simmering rage has now risen to such a level that many conservative opinion shapers are spending their waking hours coping with a festering Zapruder-like obsession over video frames of the Corey Lewandowski-Michelle Fields confrontation while obsessing over the GOP front-runner’s latest embarrassing gaffe.

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To: detective
While Joe points outs the GOPe filthy culture, his closing remarks should still SHOW HE IS WITH THEM...

“Like many Republican critics of Trump, my first, second and third choices did not survive the early stages of Trumpism. I still believe Jeb Bush would have been the best president to sit in the Oval Office since Ronald Reagan. And if John Kasich is still campaigning when Connecticut Republicans go to the polls, he will get my vote”

41 posted on 04/04/2016 5:31:58 AM PDT by HypatiaTaught
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To: plewis1250

“And you want to portray these folks as out of touch...

“His home in Palm Beach, his tower on the east side of midtown, jetting around in literally a 757 with his name splashed on the side in gold, the man is the ultimate elitist.

That’s rich...”

All of Trump’s goodies, that make a lot of people green with envy(you too it seems} were all gained the American way. You too could have had all of them and more if you had been as smart and savy as Trump. That’s America! Ain’t it great! It’s not about “spreading the wealth” to every challenged grumbler that can’t make it and has only one thing to spread; crap.


42 posted on 04/04/2016 5:33:32 AM PDT by Aleya2Fairlie
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To: Aleya2Fairlie; plewis1250

——His home in Palm Beach, his tower on the east side of midtown, jetting around in literally a 757 with his name splashed on the side in gold, the man is the ultimate elitist-—

That’s envy, cultural envy expressed as contempt


43 posted on 04/04/2016 5:36:12 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson was my guy but now is a Trumplican)
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To: Pelham

Indeed


44 posted on 04/04/2016 5:37:36 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Aleya2Fairlie

Oh I am HARDLY envious of Mr. Trump.

What I find amazing is the complete double standard being applied here by many on this post.

Trump IS part of the same exact system we are fighting against. He is the donor half of the corruption in Washington. An elite whom buys access.

If you cannot see that, hope for you is lost.


45 posted on 04/04/2016 5:38:12 AM PDT by plewis1250 (The pecking order: Christian, American, Conservative)
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To: bert

I have ZERO envy for this man.
Contempt, yes, but not envy.

What’s to envy about someone so lost, so shallow, and so out of touch with reality? Not a single thing.


46 posted on 04/04/2016 5:42:54 AM PDT by plewis1250 (The pecking order: Christian, American, Conservative)
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To: plewis1250

“Trump IS part of the same exact system we are fighting against”

The American system of exceptionalism, personal freedom, and capitalism; yes, that’s what Trump exemplifies and what you’re fighting against. Did you think there was any question about that?


47 posted on 04/04/2016 5:43:10 AM PDT by Aleya2Fairlie
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To: plewis1250

If Trump is such an inside elitist then why are the inside elite so against him?


48 posted on 04/04/2016 5:44:23 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: detective
The so called conservative elite say Trump supporters are losers who yearn for a Hitler type father figure.

The morons are begging for the rise of a National Front Party. Been predicting it since the 90s. Been laughed at since the 90s.

49 posted on 04/04/2016 5:44:42 AM PDT by Stentor
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To: detective

In Trump, see more of a Teddy Roosevelt type than Hitler. The propaganda coming from the Cruz side is worthy of Lenin or Stalin.


50 posted on 04/04/2016 5:50:04 AM PDT by CMB_polarization
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To: cowboyway
Unfortunately, there have been calls for a Trump dictatorship right here on FR. When people read that what are they to conclude?

I have been following these Trump/Cruz threads very closely. I have not seen any Trump supporter call for a Trump dictatorship.

Please provide a link to the thread/post.

51 posted on 04/04/2016 5:57:25 AM PDT by CapitalistCrusader
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To: Boardwalk

The author is smarter than Williamson, but there are plenty of people who live near a Whole Foods who don’t have their heads stuck up their rears. (For the record the closest one is probably 50 miles from me).

No, that’s too broad of a brush used in order to obscure the fact that everyone with common sense pretty much got run out of party leadership so that a group of utopian loons and zealots, who considered themselves to be intellectually our betters, could seize power away from the voting base.

It sounds clever to say, and has the virtue of simplicity, but it fails because I think it ultimately is a tactic also used by ISIS in using innocent people as human shields.


52 posted on 04/04/2016 5:59:57 AM PDT by BlackAdderess (A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... -Emerson)
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To: mac_truck

And Scarborough is from some backwater of either SC, Florida or Alabama - depending on the day he needs to use a particular state.

No one has noticed that Scarborough rips off a question posed by a midwestern Democrat who posed the question to Hollywood elitists during, maybe, the first Bush administration: how many of you have ever been to Paris and how many of you have ever been to Iowa or Indiana? Unfortunately, I’ve forgotten who the pol was.

Scarborough is never original or particularly thoughtful.


53 posted on 04/04/2016 6:27:51 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: plewis1250
Ah knew it would take about 20+ post for a rapid Cruz supporter to come throw a flaming turd bag around here. So who would be your prefect candidate?.. Ted Cruz..guy giving out toys to the spawn of illegal aliens(Can supply you with video)on the Texas\Mexico border? Or the Ted Cruz, supporting TPP and TPA, or the Ted Cruz, career lawyer who never had a real job except working for the Bushes, the Ted Cruz who besides his wife is known as and I quote by his college roomies and ex-friends as a "Dick". I use that adolescent talk not to mean a guy who is an independent thinker, but a guy who is difficult, self absorbed, sometimes cold, cruel and unknowable. Just not a trustworthy good man. The Ted Cruz who has never had to hire or fire anyone. The Ted Cruz who is a junior senator, career politicians and globalist..You know like OBAMA! You guys are such f'ing hypocrites.

Maybe Mark Levin can make you feel better, by playing a few more 1976 or 1968 audio clips with Ronald Reagan to the sounds of the Battle Hymn of the Republic playing in the background. Or maybe you Cruz supporters can fellate each other over your pyrrhic victory tomorrow night. You know the one where Trump just traded field goals with you and you guys are still down 45-10 about the start the 4th quarter.

54 posted on 04/04/2016 6:28:31 AM PDT by pburgh01
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To: Pelham

In 1972 I got a summer job at a bakery in Switzerland.

Given my limited understanding of the language, I was given every menial task imaginable. One was working on the quiche making line.

My job was to plop the meat into the quiche from a vat of ground up meat. Just like in the Lucy episode, the line got faster & faster until I was throwing meat everywhere trying to keep up.

The supervisor saw what was happening & went ballistic. He must have called me everything in the book, none of which I understood, before he handed me a shovel & indicated I was to cleanup the meat mess around me.

So, I scrapped up the meat from the floor & headed to the trash can with the mess. Again, the supervisor went ballistic, & indicated that I must put the meat scraped from the floor, the mess I has been standing in, back into the meat vat, to be used to make the quiche. Yuk!

Since then, quiche has never touched my lips.


55 posted on 04/04/2016 6:31:53 AM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: detective

The voters, I think, have been desperately trying to follow the advice from their youth, that “when life hands you lemons, make lemonade”. I would put forth though, that the exercise we’ve been engaged in more closely resembles trying to decide between two samples of cat pee, as to which would make the better beverage.

Perhaps the elites are trying to slowly convert us over to their way of thinking? Representation is SO last century??!


56 posted on 04/04/2016 6:32:52 AM PDT by BlackAdderess (A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... -Emerson)
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To: pburgh01

Just look which side you are standing on...
Look what the joke that is Donald Trump has forced you to accept...

Enjoy supporting abortion, homosexual marriage, higher taxes, and universal healthcare...


57 posted on 04/04/2016 7:41:49 AM PDT by plewis1250 (The pecking order: Christian, American, Conservative)
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To: BraveMan

..or change your diet..


58 posted on 04/04/2016 8:36:45 AM PDT by Pelham (A refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: Pelham
If they have any sense they will recognize it as propaganda worthy of Herr Goebels being spread by Trump haters.

Bravo Sierra. You Trumper Thumpers have an excuse for everything.

59 posted on 04/04/2016 8:46:17 AM PDT by cowboyway ("Give me a beer or two and I'll be fine, at least that's worked every other time....")
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To: FreedomGuru
No dictatorship is wanted by Trump supporters just a major change in Washington with the only candidate possible in 2016.

I didn't say all Trump supporters were calling for a dictatorship but there have been some right here on FR saying that Trump needs dictatorial powers to 'clean up this mess'.

60 posted on 04/04/2016 8:49:31 AM PDT by cowboyway ("Give me a beer or two and I'll be fine, at least that's worked every other time....")
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