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.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3397167/posts?q=1&;page=51
Mercer The Tax Cheat OWNS Cruz .
Wake up fool .
You have no idea what you are talking about..Cruz was speaking about constructing a wall and pushing it legislatively in 2013..just as he promised during his candidacy to become a Senator. http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2013/05/sen-ted-cruzs-border-security-amendment-to-immigration-legislation-voted-down.html/
Your candidate was attacking Mitt Romney and telling dreamers they had convinced him on the issue. Trump’s immigration plan is called touchback amnesty.
GMTA. Take a quick gander at the top section of my profile page.
There's plenty of nastiness coming from both sides
Another thread going has an anti-Trump poster calling other FReepers idiots and telling them that they should leave this site and go to DU.
I honestly don't see as many personal attack against Cruz supporters. Cruz,the candidate, yes. But not so much on his FReeper fans
YMMV
Absolutely spin it anyway you want to, there in is the key.
Drink Kool-Aid much do you?
Rush is wrong.
Sorry to tell you but he isn’t always right.
I have read that Rush has designated himself as judge of who is conservative? I call his ability into question... Trump versus Rush?
Looks like it drew out a few that have the frikken laser attachments, even if they ain't necessarily sharks themselves.
I agree totally! I've witnessed too much hate and venom all around FR since The Great Purge of 2007. And it only intensifies every four years during the primaries.
I've learned to never reveal who I am supporting in the primaries anymore... it just isn't worth it.
My list of good FRiends who no longer post on FR grows longer every year... sad.
Teddy is wholly owned By Tax Cheat Hedge Cheat .
>> The One who doesn’t take kindly to those who defend Planned parenthood defenders
Unless you can guarantee Cruz will beat Hillary, then you’re the One defending Planned Parenthood.
So, Cruz had a plan to build a wall? Where is it? Hmmmm. He never introduced legislature to get it done, yet, he has bragged about all the things he has introduced, which went no where.
Did you even read what I said? I mentioned nothing about Rush.
And if we all are unfortunate enough to have The Donald as our President, even he will learn that all his bluster can't build a wall unless he can get it through both houses of Congress, which I don't think will happen.
I wonder what your excuse would be the
Ooooh, I just got the Fredo speech from Michael Corleone wannabe.
My membership isn’t worth anything if this place keeps veering to the left as it is.
Been here a long time and I have stepped on Jim’s toes many times, but I keep hanging.
I’m not perfect, but I am unabashedly conservative. Maybe that’s why I’m still here.
Jim does like conservatives, but he needs funds, and those who help pay the bills will inevitably control the politics.
I had my posting privileges suspended here because I attacked a Trump supporter with well deserved “profane language”. Something has definitely changed...not for the good.
Many consistent Conservatives are owned by Wall Street! In fact all consistent Conservatives are owned by someone. The only candidate who is not owned by anyone is NOT a consistent Conservative.
Those 94 million Americans without jobs is a huge pool.
Add to that part timers and people working at smaller incomes than before. Those are all Trump voters. Job is a higher priority for most voters than eminent domain or New York values.
He doesn’t support it after he supported you mean?
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