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.
Your candidate just happens to be a private citizen that spent a fortune on helping the Democrats through years of political contributions and proudly spoke of his wonderful relationship with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Chuck Schumer. Again, you are misleading..your refusal to hold Trump to basic standards is not the same as me holding him to a higher standard. Most private citizens don’t have the Clintons at their wedding either so you can cease with the false dichotomy and please stop ignoring the record of Ted Cruz in the Senate.
The truth is he is a YUGE problem.
Didn’t see any of that. Disagreeing with him is not telling him how to run his board, and I’ve never seen him make that claim.
Yes, it was bound to happen at FR eventually also
No I changed my mind because of too many factors to list this evening, but the nastiness and judgmental character of many Cruz supporters here did cause me to question whether I was supporting the wrong person. But it is true that I am not someone who responds well to people attacking Sarah Palin more viciously than the main stream media ever did. People ought to think how people might react to some of the nastiness that they post.
Elly Mae: "Well, how come you keep puttin it off, Paw?"
Jed: "I reckon 'cause the short ones is so distressful."
Yes, I know you and your thoughts and all well. Like me you have been fighting it, and sadly it seems we are even losing the battle here where we thought we had a friendly place filled with like minds.
No more I guess.
Tom Tancredo was a lone voice crying in the wilderness for years with no help at all.
Ted Cruz was elected, in part, to fight for border control and getting the lawbreakers our of here.
Now Trump, because he can manipulate the press, gets all the credit for trying to end illegal immigration.
Trump is standing on the shoulders of better men on every subject.
It’s what he does.
LOL. Now that’s funny
Ok
I confess if Trump is in the prostitution business I do not approve
Yes I too have been in titty bars
Some act like boîtes while others do not foster prostituion
Depends on the club and the town
I will research this
Especially when someone posts a thread saying his website has jumped the shark, which it has not.
CGato (joined over 2 years ago but I've been here lurking since 1998 when I first found the site.)
No, Cruz was never for a wall. His answer, when asked if he supported building a wall was that he was for walls, fences, and drones and anything else that would work. A little of everything to please the gullible. If his answer that he was in favor of wall(s), not A wall, but walls doesn’t raise a red flag with you, then you’re not looking very hard.
Sorry, but God opened our borders to destroy us because we continually consider abortion to of second, third, or fourth importance.
Try posting pro Cruz. You’ll se it, fast and ugly.
Thanks for confirming the entire Teddy Anti establishment Spin is One Big Lie .
Trump isn’t OWNED !
Your Boy Barks and Rolls over whenever his owner BARKS out orders.
The birth control pill IS an abortifacient...
Ed
Now Trump, because he can manipulate the press, gets all the credit for trying to end illegal immigration.
Man looking for loan at the bank: "How can you tell I'm an honest man?"
Jed: "Because if you wasn't you'd be sitting there telling me all about what all you got instead of what all you ain't."
OOP’s I responded a comment meant for the post above yours where Rush was mentioned.
One thing I hate about this is I end up responding to so many that I screw up at times clicking on the wrong comment.
Sorry
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