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Posted on 04/16/2011 11:43:03 AM PDT by justsaynomore
***ANOTHER UPDATE***
Levin points out many things about Trump that show he is no conservative, but a few of the glaring ones are the fact that he support Charlie Crist over Marco Rubio twice, as well as calling for the impeachment of George W. Bush, accusing him of lying to get us in the war. Oh yeah, and he supported Universal Health Care in America, the Canadian style.
And there’s more. This is a must listen.
http://www.therightscoop.com/levin-rips-donald-trump-to-shreds/
Levin points out many things about Trump that show he is no conservative, but a few of the glaring ones are the fact that he support Charlie Crist over Marco Rubio twice, as well as calling for the impeachment of George W. Bush, accusing him of lying to get us in the war. Oh yeah, and he supported Universal Health Care in America, the Canadian style.
What are you saying? Donald Trump is a shyster and is only doing this for self promotion and greed? Who would have ever expected that from him?
Supported both Hillary and Kerry, was pro abortion until when......yesterday?
Romney lite.
Trump has healthcare plan ideas. I’ll wait to hear them. Donald must have sent an advanced copy to Levin. I’ve tried listening to Levin, he’s a JERK.
Donald Trumps whole purpose is to damage obama for the Clintons as well as split the tea party vote and the republican vote. This will help the D and R’s stay in power and succesfully dilute the insulant popular uprising known as the tea party.
He is systematically going down the list of what “progressives” and “rinos” believe to be the tea parties big issues. He is on every left and right based news show to discuss it. This guy is out to subert Obama and get this country back on the d / r, Clinton / Bush gravy train. If the article is correct about his support of Canadian Health Care...then we will have 3 candidates in the next election to choose from that all support commie care....Obama / Clinton, Romney and now Trump.
People need to wake up and understand that we are watching a puppet show. They all need to go!
I love Levin - he’s the smartest pundit around. And I agree with him about Trump. We need someone with solid conservative principles. Anyone who would give money to Rahm Emmanuel and Chuck Schumer is not presidential material, even if he did also give money to Republicans. I don’t know the status of Rubio’s citizenship or that of his parents. And I know he’s not running anyway. But I’ve heard him speak and he certainly sounded Reaganesque. And Allen West is also solid - and yes, I know he’s not running either. I’m just saying...as much as I admire Trump’s desire to help the country, I wish we had someone truly exciting, someone articulate and with depth about the principles of Conservatism. Wish we didn’t have to “settle.”
When you go up against the bama boy ther is no telling where the bullets will be coming in from.
I won’t be voting for Trump either, but it is time we found out for sure about Obama, and I could care less about Trumps motives.
Levin has gotten to the point that most if his show is angry diatribe. He can’t simply disagree without yelling, screaming, shouting, and dripping with sarcasm. I’ll stick with the tried and true Rush every time.
I heard Levin yesterday. He said for over 40 years he has followed Trump and during that time he has been invisible on conservative issues, rather taking sides with the left, and now, presto chango, just in time for the Republican race he touts himself a great champion of conservatism.
Where was he when Levin, Bachmann, and so many other conservative stalwarts were in the trenches with the tea party? He was invisible, during that time he was supporting the enemies of the tea party.
Levin said he believes Trump is really for Trump. If he were for real he would have been in the fight with the tea party.
It would seem to be smart to “systematically go down the list,” as you say. Why aren’t the other potential candidates doing it? Are they not as smart?
He is NoT a jerk. He is brilliant and acerbic. No patience with stupid libs who call and want a forum to spout the leftist garbage. He is civil with those who call and actually want to have an intelligent conversation. And he is the best spokesman for the Constitution around, a national treasre, IMHO.
Mark Levin is the most knowledgeable, entertaining, funny, accurate, aggressive, Constitutional radio host on the air.
He is an excellent Constitutional lawyer who served in the best administration in our lifetimes. He runs Landmark Legal Foundation which exists to fight legal battles to help defend the Constitution. It is doing work in support of the state lawsuits against Obamacare.
He has worked relentlessly for conservative causes, and the Constitution.
Of course, Donald Trump has done nothing for the Country, but everything for himself. That is fine for himself, but is in no way a qualification to lead this country. He does not even have an elementary grasp of the Constitution or how a free economy operates.
Is SOROS involved?
Remember the article back in November in the Huffington Post — Soros had said he had given up on Obama and was looking elsewhere. A lot of the speculation was Trump. (related story from source I can link to)
http://www.businessinsider.com/george-soros-says-he-may-have-to-look-beyond-obama-for-his-political-investments-2010-11
The “Co-Opt the Tea Party Movement” being put into practice by Trump?
Sounds quite plausible to me!
Trent Lott [R] on Tea Party candidates: ‘As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them’
http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2010/07/19/trent-lott-on-tea-party-candidates-as-soon-as-they-get-here-we-need-to-co-opt-them/
12:27 pm July 19, 2010, by Jay
The money quote from a Washington Post piece on the Tea Party and Washington’s GOP establishment:
Former Senate majority leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), now a D.C. lobbyist, warned that a robust bloc of rabble-rousers spells further Senate dysfunction. “We don’t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples,” Lott said in an interview. “As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them.” But Lott said he’s not expecting a tea-party sweep. “I still have faith in the visceral judgment of the American people,” he said.
69 posted on Saturday, April 16, 2011 12:40:32 PM by Matchett-PI
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2705800/posts?page=69#69
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Saturday, April 16, 2011
Mark Levin’s explanation of why Donald Trump does not represent the conservative or Tea Party movements. He wasn’t there when we needed him, and he helped those who were against us.
Make sure you listen to this: Mark Levin Audio: http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2011/04/sound-trumpet.html
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MORE:
My post in the thread below: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2705800/posts?page=19#19
DONALD CHUMP AND HIS SPIN (Mark Levin)
Mark Levin’s Facebook Page ^ | April 16, 2011 | Mark Levin
Posted on Saturday, April 16, 2011 11:57:04 AM by Virginia Ridgerunner
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2705800/posts
Look how Chump operates. Caught red-handed now with his vicious attacks on George Bush, who most conservatives had issues with, he now says but for Bush there would have likely been no Obama. That may well be true. I have been a harsh critic of Bush’s spending, including in my book. But Chump was calling Bush EVIL and demanded his IMPEACHMENT because of the Iraq war and in the middle of that war. He said Bush lied to get us into Iraq. His comments were vile and outrageous, not unlike the America-hating leftists who sought to undermine are armed forces there. Now he wants us to believe that his criticism of Bush was because Bush’s poor record set the stage for Obama? Chump attacked Bush over Iraq because if you were a big-mouth, attention-seeking liberal, it was the thing to do. He had no altruistic or principled conservative motive for doing so at the time and expressed none.
As recently as last year, while conservatives and Tea Party activists were organizing and rallying against Obama, Pelosi, Reid and their radical agenda, Chump was helping to fund some our opponents. He contributed to left-wing, Tea Party-hating menaces like Chuck Schumer, Anthony Weiner, and Harry Reid. What about his contributions to Charlie Crist, while Crist was running against Marco Rubio? Did he donate to any of the Tea Party candidates? Did he contribute to the Tea Party movement in any way, with time or money, before today? Why not?
Chump also praised Nancy Pelosi. He thought she was great. I played the audio. I guess he was just mistaken, again. He supported universal health care, but not any more, of course. He supported abortion and gay marriage, but that was then, this is now. He supported John Kerry for president in 2004, but that’s because Bush was so evil. He leaned on government officials to use eminent domain against a little old lady whose home happened to be in the way of a parking lot he wanted to build for one of his casinos in Atlantic City, but he has always been for private property rights.
So now Chump rails against China and demands Obama’s birth certificate and we are supposed to swoon over the man. But when asked about the Ryan budget, he turns stupid again — he says Ryan should not take the lead on this, we need a bipartisan consensus to move forward? And with whom do we build this bipartisan consensus? Reid? Obama? Is Chump really this dumb, or is he, once again, trying to figure out which way the wind is blowing?
Chump is a phony and dissembling. He called a hastily organized press event this morning because I, and others, are on to him.
Today he is speaking at a local Tea Party rally. And why? Because now he wants our support, not because he supports us or our principles, or ever did. Chump is about Chump. And he thinks we’re too stupid to notice. Are we?
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My post in the thread below:
To: Sub-Driver; holdonnow
“This guy is a loose cannon............” ~ Sub-Driver
LISTEN:
Mark Levin Audio: http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2011/04/sound-trumpet.html
2 posted on Saturday, April 16, 2011 10:53:41 AM by Matchett-PI
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2705779/posts?page=2#2
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TRENDING: Trump lashes out at George W. Bush and Obama
By: CNN Political Producer Shannon Travis
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/16/trump-lashes-out-at-george-w-bush-and-obama/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_politicalticker+%28Blog%3A+Political+Ticker%29
Palm Beach, Florida (CNN) – Donald Trump has more harsh criticism for one of the most recognizable men in the world: George W. Bush.
In a display of bipartisan bashing, Trump lashed out at the nation’s 43rd president as he criticized the 44th.
“George Bush gave us Barack Obama. If it weren’t for George Bush, we wouldn’t have Barack Obama,” Trump said on Friday. “So I’m not thrilled with George Bush.”
The billionaire real estate mogul made the comments at his famed Palm Beach estate Mar-a-Lago that sits on 20 acres and boasts 126 rooms. The star of NBC’s “The Apprentice” spoke to reporters in a hastily arranged news conference moments before a posh, poolside party at the estate and hours before he was to speak at a Tea Party rally.
Trump was pressed to explain his comments.
“Because he[Bush] didn’t have a great presidency, especially at the end. And because of his actions, and because of his aura, it was very tough for a Republican to win,” Trump said. “And in all fairness to John McCain and to Sarah Palin, I think it would have been very, very tough for anybody – for Abraham Lincoln – to win after having followed George Bush.”
Trump has previously let out harsh criticism of the 43rd president.
In a March 2007 interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Trump said, “Well, I think Bush is probably the worst president in the history of the United States.” He cited the war in Iraq, calling it a “total disaster” and added later: “Look, everything in Washington has been a lie. Weapons of mass destruction - it was a total lie. It was a way of attacking Iraq.”
Trump now sees Obama as deserving that notorious distinction, calling him “the worst president in the history of the United States.” Among other items, Trump reasoned that the president has not done well handling foreign affairs, such as the conflict in Libya, and that “Obamacare” is bad for the country.
Headlining a Tea Party rally in Boca Raton on Saturday, Trump will make his first appearance at a campaign-like political rally this year. The rally will mirror others across the country over the weekend as conservative activists protest government spending days before Monday’s deadline to file taxes.
Media and public interest in Trump has recently increased as he’s questioned President Obama’s birthplace. And his popularity with Tea Party activists has also increased. The reality television star boasted that interest in Saturday’s rally ballooned after it was announced that he would appear.
“It was supposed to be 300 people,” he said. “When they heard I was speaking, I heard it’s going to be anywhere from five-to-ten thousand people.”
And yet Trump has publicly supported one issue that Tea Party activists despise: the bank bailout. When asked if he can win Tea Party support given his support for this issue, Trump demurred from a direct response.
“Well I actually think the tea party is more of a party of common sense.”
11/8/2010- $2,700-Democratic Party of Delaware
10/21/2010 -$2,400- Anthony Weiner (D)
9/20/2010- $10,000 – Democratic Committee of New York City
2/18/2010 – $2,000- Anthony Weiner (D)
4/7/2010 -$1,000 Charles Schumer (D)
3/26/2009- $2,400 – Harry Reid (D)
8/11/2009 -$2,000 – Bill Nelson (D)
5/20/2009 – $2,000 -Charles Schumer (D)
It is astonishing to me how conservatives will seize like remora fish to any passing fancy from Ross Perot to Colin Powell and, now, Donald Trump. They will strain at a gnat and swallow a camel as they puke all over their keyboards when the name Newt Gingrich comes up but forget about Donald Trump's marriages, his bankruptcies, his flagrant arrogance, his inconsistencies.
Trump' s numbers are combination of name recognition, media hype, frustration over the passivity of the conventional candidates on the issue of eligibility, and a perceived willingness to push back against the media, governor Christie style, which many conservatives have yearned for.
Mostly, his high numbers, actually only about 26%, represent a portion of part of the electorate. The traditional candidates have one eye on the general election and Trump has made a calculation that if he wants any chance at the presidency he is actually increasing his odds from about zero by exploiting the birther issue. That was a dangerous tactic that the traditional candidates were not willing to risk because they did not face the same long odds that Trump faced in the beginning. Trump had to break through and break in if he was to be seen as bona fide material as a presidential candidate and so the Birther issue and an aggressive belligerent tone with the media serves him.
However, his tactics will force the rest of the field to be more aggressive and in my view that is a good thing.
later
trump may not be a conservative, but at least he’s asking some of the right questions.
questions that the media and our own pubbies did not ask, nor do they still ask.
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