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Why Conservatives Still Attack Trump
Townhall ^ | May 30, 2017 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 05/29/2017 9:43:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

When people you know well, admire, and who share your values do something you strongly oppose, you have two options: 1) Cease admiring them or 2) try to understand them and change their minds.

In the case of my conservative friends who still snipe (or worse) at President Trump, I have rejected option one. The reason -- beside the fact that I simply like many of them -- is what I refer to as "moral bank accounts."

Every time we do good, we make a deposit into our moral bank account. And every time we do something bad, we make a withdrawal. These conservatives have made so many deposits into their moral bank accounts that, in my view, their accounts all remain firmly in the black....

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 115th; antitrump; cucks; democrats; dennisprager; hillary; prager; second100days; trump
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To: miss marmelstein; BobL; rmlew
The primaries are over and we chose poorly.
I supported Cruz and he would have been a far better president. Still, I support Trump, when he does the right thing. I call out the media, when it is lying. And I oppose any Republican or conservative doing the wrong thing.
101 posted on 05/30/2017 7:25:03 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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Bump


102 posted on 05/30/2017 7:40:54 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: rmlew

Too bad your premise is wrong. Facts are important to conservatives


103 posted on 05/30/2017 7:41:50 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: rmlew
So, do you have any reference about Trump donating to Rubio? That is one I've never heard before.

Sessions would have backed down after the first liberal yelled at him. Look at how quickly he recused himself from stuff he didn't even touch.

Cruz only got as far as he did by drafting behind Trump, whom he seemed to admire. That Cruz, the anointed debater, lost to Trump, shows how terrible Cruz really was.

Really, only Trump could do the work before us.

Do note that my wife and I donated a fair amount of money to Ted, shortly after he announced. He was destined to be the best choice, until Trump.

104 posted on 05/30/2017 8:26:02 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: JohnyBoy
Ah yes the holier than thou conservatives. The guys who tend to talk about muh principles or how the next guys isn’t as conservative as they but they never seem to be around when it’s time to fight the left. All they’re fire is reserved for the right and the flee the moment the media or the left attacks us.

YOU Johny totally 'get it'... you know who they are...

105 posted on 05/30/2017 8:59:33 PM PDT by GOPJ (The MSM exaggerates and lies because they're fearful.. angry... and shallow.)
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To: rmlew

Do me a favor: don’t write to me.


106 posted on 05/31/2017 3:32:13 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: rmlew
"The primaries are over and we chose poorly. I supported Cruz and he would have been a far better president. Still, I support Trump, when he does the right thing. I call out the media, when it is lying. And I oppose any Republican or conservative doing the wrong thing."

Cruz wasn't even eligible to be president. Born in Canada to a foreign father. How could he possibly be a natural born Citizen?

BTW.... Neither was Rubio or Jindal, as their parents were all foreign nationals at the time of their birth.

The Constitution, Vattel, and “Natural Born Citizen”: What Our Framers Knew

The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God: The True Foundation of American Law

The Supreme Court of the United States has never applied the term “natural born citizen” to any other category than “those born in the country of parents who are citizens thereof”.

MINOR V. HAPPERSETT IS BINDING PRECEDENT AS TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEFINITION OF A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.

Neither the 14th Amendment nor Wong Kim Ark make one a Natural Born Citizen

The Harvard Law Review Article Taken Apart Piece by Piece and Utterly Destroyed

Citizenship Terms Used in the U.S. Constitution - The 5 Terms Defined & Some Legal Reference to Same

"The citizenship of no man could be previous to the declaration of independence, and, as a natural right, belongs to none but those who have been born of citizens since the 4th of July, 1776."....David Ramsay, 1789.

A Dissertation on Manner of Acquiring Character & Privileges of Citizen of U.S.-by David Ramsay-1789

The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law (1758)

The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God: The True Foundation of American Law

107 posted on 05/31/2017 3:45:16 AM PDT by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: rmlew

So a better choice would have been Cruz losing?

After all, he fell to pieces when Trump responded to his attack on his wife.


108 posted on 05/31/2017 5:37:03 AM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

PING!


109 posted on 05/31/2017 12:32:22 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Conservatives are, or should be, driven by principle. Accordingly, we should neither be Never Trump nor Ever Trump. When conservatives make policy based criticisms of any public official, that is what we’re supposed to do, whether that official is Bush, 0bama, Trump, or whoever.


110 posted on 05/31/2017 1:34:22 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: BobL
Cruz never attacked Trump's wife and he didn't fall apart.
Trump was given the nomination by ove ra billion dollars of free media and non-Republicans voting in the GOP primary. Trump lost the popular vote badly, and won the electoral collage thanks to less than 100,000 votes, despite running against Hillary Clinton. The idea that Cruz would have lost is amusing counter-history
111 posted on 05/31/2017 8:20:49 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: Godebert

Natural Born bothers me. But a citizen born to an American father overseas has been deemed “natural born” since the Naturalization Act of 1790. The idea that this would not apply to son of an American woman, when women have full rights now, is stretching it.


112 posted on 05/31/2017 8:26:31 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: JohnyBoy

These ‘fake’ conservatives are talking about their own personal ‘principal’ when they lecture US about principles...


113 posted on 05/31/2017 8:45:26 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: rmlew
Actually, the ‘Naturalization Act of 1790’ had nothing to do with what ‘creates’ a ‘natural born’ US citizen... And if you were paying attention to the Harvard Law Schooled wiz, when he answered the debate question about his eligibility, you would know, he knows that he is not nor will he ever be a ‘natural born’ US citizen.

‘Natural born’ US citizenship is akin to a birthright... you do know about ‘birthrights’? That clause is what was to protect US from ineligible characters like Obama... but, the uniparty, sure did not want to appear ‘racist’ and allowed 8 years of transforming this nation.

114 posted on 05/31/2017 9:06:49 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: rmlew

I remember the picture. Cruz tried the old trick of going through a well-connected third party to get it out (someone he was real close to). No on that follows politics, for a moment, that he had nothing to do with it.

He deserved Trump’s response.


115 posted on 05/31/2017 9:47:42 PM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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