Posted on 01/26/2016 7:10:54 AM PST by Theo
Something about old dogs and new tricks. So Trump can’t be taught anything because he will be 70 in June. How old is “Ol’ Cal”? What lessons has he missed in the past seven years about what happens to your ability to do anything when you lose elections at the top of the ticket? Even 91-year-old Phyllis has figured that out!
So if not Trump, then who?
I expected a childish response, and you did not disappoint.
Some of them definitely want Cruz, and have said so. Others, would they prefer Cruz over Trump? I'm guessing yes. Speaking for myself, I definitely do not want Trump to the nominee. He's not a conservative, he's immature and intellectually lazy, and I don't trust him for a minute.
Their focus groups and private polling results have probably given them nightmares. Those realities are driving them Bat Guano.
#1 Trump will win big.
#2 NR and similar bs organizations have become irrelevant.
He looks pretty good for 70. I thought he was way younger
What's David Boaz doing in National Review? He's not a conservative, but a libertarian.
The GOPEs and RINOs have already lost this one, dear Preacher Thomas.
Cal Thomas rushed to Bob Beckel’s side when he going down for the third time. Then Cal and Hannity found work for him at Fox News.
Yep...the Cheap Labor/Special Interest Groups/lobbyist bunch is having epic fits over the very real possibility that their gravy train will come to a screeching halt.
Funny to see so much twisting and squirming and especially funny to see poor old Cal attempt to be anything but the squish he is. This is equivalent to Linda Graham calling Trump a jackass. LOL.
“Rubio was/is a tea party Republican who is having trouble getting traction this year because he wrong-footed himself on immigration. But his record is conservative, “
THIS is ‘conservative’?
Marco Rubio Casts Deciding Vote For Obamatrade Without ...
www.breitbart.com/.../marco-rubio-casts-deciding-vote-for-oba...
Breitbart
Jun 23, 2015 - The TPP text for the Pacific Rim trade deal that. Sen. Jeff Sessions ... You’re telling me Marco Rubio voted for a bill without reading it? Are you ...
You need to find out who owns Rubio...and they are NOT on our side.
Paul Ryan was hand picked for DC Politics by one Cesar Conda, open border, free traitor powerful lobbyist who happens to be chief of staff for....MARCO Rubio...one in the house, one in the senate...double Trojan horse! Conda,along with Grover Norquist, Steve Moore of Heritage destroyed prop 187 in Calif and every meaningful attempt to control our borders.
Who is Cesar Conda?
History repeats itself, and this time, we are the NATIVES! Who is Cesar Conda?
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3007546/posts
I'd rather have Cruz. Without Trump we wouldn't even be having this conversation. We'd be moaning about how the establishment screwed us again.
I understand your thoughts about Loesch, but the act of her willing inclusion in the hit piece belies what I’d call honest disagreement, especially when we are confronted with the remnants of a criminal legacy of the Clintons being carried over into this century. It betrays the one possibility we have to defeat this impending probability IMO.
Had these ‘conservatives’ spent this much collective brainpower, historic credibility denouncing Hillary I’d have been more sympathetic. In the end it appears to me just a RINO exclusion that boils down to “we gotta take Jeb” [or Rubio, or Kasich, or Christie] in the same vein as taking it up the keester for McCain and Romney. Ugh.
I WANT Cruz OR Trump. Right now, I’m gonna vote for Trump in my primary but if Cruz comes out on top, I’ll pull the lever hard for him in the General election.
To me, these “Editors Against Trump” are nothing more than quisling (my way or the highway) appeaser RINOs more interested in preserving their gigs and feathered beds in establishment RINOland. They are scared because they are totally unequipped to deal with a political process that isn’t RINOcentric.
The United States today: What some 50 years of voting for politicians has gotten us.
Cal is a reasonable intelligent fellow. Heck, he’s even more intelligent that most.
But he completely misses the mark here.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3388495/posts?page=60#60
RR was tough, as tough as Trump when it came to negotiations. He would not comprise an iota with the Soviets or with terrorists.
RR faced in 1980 an electorate that was not conservative, not liberal so much as it was leaderless, rudderless. Reagan was not elected based on his conservatism, he was elected because of his toughness, because of the Iranian Hostage Crisis and because Jimmy Carter was an embarrassing incompetent.
Sounds very much like Trump, doesn’t it? It does.
The electorate didn’t follow RR’s conservatism in 1980, they really didn’t understand it so much. It wasn’t until about the 2nd half of 1983 into RR’s first term that the electorate grabbed onto conservatism not because of its principles and philosophy so much as they had grown to love Ronald Reagan and then everyone wanted to be like RR. So there were a lot of democrats that switched and a lot of moderates who started calling themselves conservative.
But these pseudo-conservatives have soiled the brand and now conservatism is not fashionable because the GOP leaders today are A-holes who are embarrassing and corrupt. They are a joke and they call themselves conservatives.
Note that conservatives long for RR but there’s a new electorate out there. Kids who were 10 years old when Reagan left office are now in their 30’s, etc. And conservatism smells to high heavens because of the A-holes who have been allowed to carry it as a banner.
This is why Ted is not in the lead. He’s not reaching the newbies in the electorate. It’s a whole new electorate out there and they are looking for someone to admire and it’s not a conservative because conservatism has been trashed.
But Donald is able to carry conservative positions not because of conservatism because he is his own force of personality.
That’s the gist of it.
Re: the trade bill. TPA is not TPP.
Yes, seriesly, all joking aside, he has bad hair.
He was just one of the ones that was willing to share his byline with NR I guess. There are DEFINITELY others like Will, Krauthammer and Hume and a whole passel of others that are ideologically ‘with them’ in spirit. All of them are snakes.
Re: the trade bill. TPA is not TPP.
Yes, so? Tpa gave Obama fast track...bipassing the required 60 votes in the senate because it is a TREATY. Anyone voting for it is a traitor, including RUBIO and CRUZ.
All you did was prove you refuse to look at FACTS I gave you about anchor baby Rubio.
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