Posted on 02/14/2016 9:47:13 PM PST by OneVike
I have been a member of FreeRepublic since February 1998, and in all my years I have ever seen so many Freepers support, and defend such a leftist candidate as Donald Trump. In the old days, any candidate that spouted the rhetoric coming out of his mouth would have been received with unanimous hatred from Freepers.
Mitt Romney was met with scorn when he claimed to have changed and was more conservative than his record showed. However, The Donald says the same thing and he is allowed to wear his liberal record as badge of honor, because he has been born again. Never mind that his fruit smells like Skubala. Any Republican candidate in the past who supported partial birth abortion was considered dead on arrival with 99.9% of Freepers. Yet a vast number of Freepers today look at Trump's defense of PP, and attack the candidate who dares to bring it up at a debate.
Thinking I have stumbled in some black hole of Bizzaro World, I decided to spend most the night, after the debate yesterday, researching past posts and comments of many Freepers who support Trump. I must admit that I wasn't too shocked to see that not all, but the vast majority, of his supporters have joined FR within the last 8 years. However I pretty much only searched the opinions of his most ardent supporters.
Interestingly enough, the ones I researched, all demanded that both Houses of Congress go after Planned Parenthood for selling baby parts. Many of them even demanded that the House use their power of the purse to defund PP. Yet these very same individuals defend, and make excuse for Trump's defense of said abortion factory, or at least claim it's bothersome but will still support him. These same individuals, however, were demanding McConnell resign for failing to pass legislation in the senate defunding PP. I did similar searches on their opinions of various other topics that Trump defends which would normally be cause of revulsion from these supporters had it been any other politician.
Well, I must admit that I am rather stunned by the way they have so easily changed their stances.
Who would have known that those who accused Jimmy Carter of never meeting a dictator and communist he didn't like, would now tout that his endorsement of Trump is not Trumps problem, and some even claim it will help him with Democrat voters in November. So we are now to welcome a politician that will get votes from leftists?
I thought the idea was to win them over to conservatism, not to abandon our beliefs just to get them to vote for our guy. So when will Freepers decide we need to change our stances on topics like "Black Lives Matter" to get more blacks to vote for our guy, or maybe we can find a good Muslim candidate who has made billions and talks a good game. Hey, so what if he may support Sharia law, just think of all those Muslim votes we can get from refugees Obama shipped in and we could actually own Dearborn Michigan. There has got to be some great female politicians who support PP that we could get behind, After all, we do have a problem with the female vote, right?
Yea, I'm just an old timer with old time values from the days when The Donald was still giving money to the Clintons and laughing at Republicans for making such a big deal over BJs in the Oval Office. Yup, just a geezer who remembers the wall of separation set up by Jamie Gorelick to keep Clinton from being prosecuted over Witewater which led to the attack on 9/11.
I guess I'm a conspiracy believer who thinks 9/11 was Clinton's fault, not GW's, and that the Weapons of Mass Destruction the NY Times finally admitted existed were originally sold to the public by the Clinton's to help get the Democrats on board for the war on Iraq.
Those were the good old days when we used to rip apart fake politicians for trying too hard to fit into our club, instead of ripping the messengers for noticing a fake when we see one.
Yea, that was before FreeRepublic jumped the Shark.
Yeah. I don’t get it. FR used to be conservative, used to care about policy.
I’ll still vote for any Republican over any democrat, but yes, I think I have heard this one before.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0
It sounds like you have an issue with the boss. Trump does not support the abortion aspect of PP - or did you miss that little tidbit? I know women who have used their services, and not for abortion reasons. Now, just what do you think Ted Cruz is going to do about abortion? Nada, zilch, zero. In fact, if elected, he will beholden to the millionaires who have supported him financially - not the American people -Wise up!
Take it easy fella. Don’t do the opus. Not now, when we need you the most.
I think it is mainly his saying he’ll build a wall. I live in Texas and I promise you it will never be built. They will be very disappointed when Trump veers hard left after the general.
Just tying to figure out what’s in the water
+1
It is truly mind boggling. This is the same site tht purged Rudy fans. I personally like Trump, but he is not a conservative. He is right on immigration, Muslims, and I like his tax plan, but he is so off base on so many issues, it’s simply a non- starter. For example, he said his sister would make a great SCOTUS. I have argued cases before her. Left wing to the core.
In other words, only Cruz supporters are allowed on this forum, right? How sad that you can’t see the forest for the trees, because Cruz is one of the biggest fakes out there. You might be more comfortable at a site called Consistent Conservative - made up of nothing but Cruz supporters. However, it will cost you to post.
It does make you wonder why we had to go through what we went through with Giulliani supporters in 2008, by any objective measure Rudy is far more consistently conservative than Trump.
You had me worried there.
Don’t be so sure of yourself, buster.
Cruz was for the wall when Trump was still writing checks for Pelosi, Reid, Clinton, etc.etc.etc.
Partly because, for the past umpteen years, the “conservatives” we support tell us we can go along for the ride, but we just need to sit in the back, sucking on our Slurpee. Until the next election when they want us to pony up for the gas money again.
Just my 2 cents
“While Planned Parenthood is engaging in the despicable practice of abortion - in addition to then selling aborted baby body parts to the highest bidder - the organization should receive no taxpayer dollars. The liberal left wing always claims that Planned Parenthood isn’t about abortion and that it’s about other general areas of women’s health. I am totally in favor of women’s health and if they can put their money where their mouth is, and stop the abortion services at Planned Parenthood entirely, we can talk about government funding for many of the other aspects of the organization that do a lot of good.” — Donald J. Trump
No, but conservatives have never been skewered like they are now. leftists were.
Plenty of Christians supporting Trump
What denomination are you?
No it was the establishment RINO’s. the conservatives have never had control of the party, we have been trying for years, but have not been in control
Republicans have a long history of making election promises, but once elected turn their collective backs on US and pay back their high roller donors...
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