Posted on 08/26/2015 8:49:16 AM PDT by conservativejoy
Poor Johnny. Hes an honest, broad-minded liberal with never an unkind word aimed at those of us on the right, and he was so sure he had the weapon that would annihilate the Donald Trump campaign. He honored me by calling me his favorite conservative, and he was so sure of that Weapon-of-Trump-Destruction he let me have a peek at it.
The weapon is a well-researched article in Commentary by Peter Wehner that offers courtroom proof that Donald Trump is not a conservative. Poor Johnny has pitifully mis-invested our confidence. Hes sure that we who admire Donald Trump and wish him well will have to take a pill and lie down while this fast-breaking mudslide overturns, overruns and overrules any hope we might have had for Donald Trump. Can you imagine? Hes changed his position and still expects to be elected!
Have you ever been in the company of a 4-year-old in the act of being told the truth about Santa Claus?
We learn from Johnnys revelation that Trump has shifted his position on immigration with windshield-wiper regularity. Johnny points out and darkly hints that he and his minions will continue to point out that Donald Trump was a Democrat for most of the last decade, and that hes contributed large sums of money to leading leftish politicians and has espoused liberal positions on health care, taxes, gun control, abortions and drugs. To calcify our joints in one last terrifying flourish Johnny finishes us off at least on his political scoreboard with proof that Trump is against entitlement reform but loves affirmative action.
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Trump represents the uprising of the abused and disrespected citizen. Donald Trump is the symbol of an American Spring. There is no way, short of violence, the DC cartel can stop his juggernaut now.
Your Trump hatred has shortcircuited your reading comprehension...which lacked a little something to begin with.
There’s some kind of deja vu thing going on...this sounds so familiar!
No, you are.
Trump represents the uprising of the abused and disrespected citizen. Donald Trump is the symbol of an American Spring. There is no way, short of violence, the DC cartel can stop his juggernaut now.
As Rush just said, the only thing that will stop Trump now is Trump.
Americans are frustrated, aggravated and disappointed. I learned early in my career that anger seethes under each. The rage has exponentially worsened since Nothing was done to Stop Obama after the Nov, 14 election. We're all concerned about the direction the country has been steered by the progressives over the years with Obama putting it on fast forward.
We all see Trump as putting the brakes on, putting the 57' Chevy in reverse, turning around and heading back to Make America Great Again.
If you saw point 22. Above I would say he doesn’t much care for the constitution.
Trump represents the establishment trying to blunt ant uprising. Trump offers nothing except recycled socialist and an uncontrolled ego. He puts Hillary and Jeb
in the driver’s seat.
Do you even read what you write?
Isn’t maverick the word the McCain used to describe himself? In that sense, yes, Trump is like him.
Only media is claiming Trump is anti-establishment. If you research beyond the drivel the media puts out you see it’s all smoke and mirrors. Trump is just a narcissist who is firmly in the establishment.
All that does is reinforce what most anti-Trumpers are saying: That his conservatism magically began in 2011 when he decided he wanted to run for office. It doesn’t prove anything any more than taking Romney’s most recent flip flops in the last election as proof of conservatism does.
Trump’s followers will point to Reagan here as proof that you can change your stripes, and they’re right. The difference though is that Reagan also proved himself as a governor first. He showed that his change of stances were true. Trump isn’t willing to do that though. He wants people to take him at his word with no proof, and that is what bothers us. If this new conservative Trump spent a single term as a governor or even mayor of NYC and showed his conservatism was legitimate, I’d be willing to support him.
The article headline is right though, most of us anti-Trumpers think this matters to his followers. It doesn’t. Most don’t seem to care if he’s a conservative or not as long as he talks tough and fights the establishment.
bump
If Trump wins the presidency he will be in a unique, somewhat precarious position.
He will have a hostile Congress & Senate. The Democratic hostility will be obvious, yet the Republican opposition will be the more dangerous & unpredictable. Boehner & McConnell will not be his friends.
This leaves Trump with one support group, a powerful one - the people who elected him - the American people. Trump has made a bunch of promises to these people on immigration, trade, jobs, the Iran deal, etc. They expect positive results.
If Trump reneges on these promises he will lose his public support fast. If he tries political double talk, the public will recognize it. If he fails to produce on his promises he could be the earliest lame duck in history & a shamed one-term president.
For this reason, & because I believe Trump is an honorable man, he is bound to the positions he has taken in the campaign. Further, he is too proud to be in the league of political liars & losers.
I agree with what you said and would add that Trump would use the power of the bully pulpit in a way that none of the others could.
He will have already taken on, and won, against the democrats, GOPe, and the media.
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