well, er, uh...
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.
Oh, get real. Cruz has done nothing for the state of Texas since elected. He only used that as a stepping stone for his real ambition - to rule the world and be wealthy.
Don’t buy it. Planed parenthood is all about the abortions. There are already places that take care of the rest
I blame Jim Thompson. Its his website now.
Do you have any problem at all with Cruz being a puppet for Goldman Sachs?
Pray America wakes
Ted Cruz is the consistent Conservative that we need to maintain the results we have been getting over the past few decades. If we let a wild man such as Donald Trump be President we might get legalized abortion, homosexual marriage, huge deficits, oppressive Federal Regulations, and general loss of freedom. It would be terrible to go down that road.
Don’t overwhelm the pious Cruzbots with facts, they can’t handle the truth.
How in the hell does that lead to a liberal jackass like Trump being the answer?
I question any Christian who would support a man who owns casinos and sells women and men peddling their naked bodies for the gamblers taking a break
I think you would have a real difficult time getting that past Christ.
Trump broke the ice jam. It’s risky business, no doubt.
Ted Cruz ran for the Senate on building a wall but Trump supporters don’t even bother themselves with the fact that his plan is identical to Hutchinson’s policy...its touchback amnesty. I don’t understand how a businessman that admits to employing illegal aliens is supposedly the candidate to bring illegal immigration to an end. Tom Tancredo was always great on the issue but he never had this sort of support.
Thanks for posting this. I feel exactly the same way. It is crazy the way that Trump supporters are willing to throw away every issue that we have all fought for and every conservative voice that we have all respected in order to continue to support Donald Trump.
It has also been eye opening to me to see the level of contempt for socially conservative Christians that a few Trump supporters openly express.
He is a liberal. I am not voting for the House and Senate members who are liberal.
I hold all politicians to the same standard
You are so wrong.
Before Trump decided Ted Cruz was “nasty” I actually thought that they might make a good team. Yeah, I guess I wasn’t really paying attention.
After the “nasty” stuff I started to pay attention. This last week I watched the video made 25 years ago that details The Donald in action.
He is addicted to cash flow and deals making - two traits LBJ had that gave us the Great Society and destroyed Black families.
After I watched this video I knew that I would never vote for him. If he is the candidate I will leave the president slot blank. Don’t need that one vote any where near my conscience.
Word up - in this video three of his faithful employees were killed in a helicopter crash. Trump later blamed these three dead men for a business problem he ran into.
Who does that sound like? All you Trumpers, don’t tell me that The Donald has changed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UO3nn7awUk
Your welcome.
When my wife and I were young and working minimum wage jobs we used PP for birth control pills. Abortion would have never have been an option for us.
Let me educate you. Cruz has big money donors, and if elected, who do you thik will control him? Main Street or K Street? You lose!
unless you stop illegal immigration you will have no more country let alone a Free Republic in a few years.. I don’t recognize my small town in SC anymore where now half the people in it don’t speak English,, and this has happened all in the last 15 years,,, it won’t be long until we are outnumbered by Hispanics in our own town if we don’t stop it very soon.. there is only ONE person who had the brass ones to make stopping illegal immigration the forefront and number one issue of his campaign and has taken all the slings and arrows to do so.. maybe you can understand where a lot of us are coming from now..
Totally agree with the original post. For years I have read Freerepublic and even gave it a plug the other night along with TheStream.org in my Bible Study.
I am concerned about the nastiness of the Trump supporters on the site. I also totally disagree with the “I will support either Trump or Cruz” mantra. From where I sit I strongly support Cruz; would never vote for Trump, and would vote for Carson or even Rubio or even hold my nose and vote for Kaisich or Bush. I do not trust Trump and feel like the would be the second-in-a-row Narcissist in the White House.
From where I sit the choice for America is between God’s total judgment and someone who will be willing to acknowledge God’s sovereignty and the covenant embraced by our forefathers to honor God in our national and private affairs. We have not been perfect as a nation; however God has blessed us and helped us walk through many deep transformations including slavery. God bless and help the American people to wake up and realize the seriousness of the electoral decisions facing us this year.
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