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.
Someone has his undies in a bundle
Disagreeing with any candidate is not "smearing", unless that candidate has something to hide, that he wishes not to be made well known to the general primary voter.
“Plenty of Christians supporting Trump”
Even though he does not seek God’s forgiveness! Of course Trump was brought up a Presbyterian, so maybe he is a Calvinist too!
Summed it up perfectly.
I just will not vote ‘party’ because it’s the ‘R’. They ALL claim to be conservative when running, and I clearly recall that old dog McCain doing ads about the wall. Spit.
Churches in my neighborhood have the welcome refugees signs, I go to the store and feel as if I’ve entered another country, there are vacant buildings, homes for sale, undesirables all around me, so many out of work, and I’m going to worry about IF Trump might not be conservative enough?
Please explain to me how you can possibly think that he has what it takes to fix all our problems.
Just because he SAYS that he can build that wall?
He has also said that he is going to keep Obamacare and make it better and that we will have universal care.
He also thinks Common Core is just dandy.
Trump will do anything for cash flow, or don't you remember that part of the movie?
” He only used that as a stepping stone for his real ambition - to rule the world and be wealthy.”
Except for the wealthy part, you could be the same about Sir Trump!
“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!”
Well, well, well, he have another educator among us that is going to make it so simple even us Cruz supporters will be climbing the Trump band wagon!
Could not have said it better myself. Stand by for incoming Cruzbots. ;-)
sorry I missed your reply.
My Rep ran as a conservative as pure as Reagan himself, but immediately fell in with Boehner and now she has a 57% conservative rating.
Voted against her challenger last time around, but to no avail. Held my nose and voted for her in the General because I am not so much of a purist that I can’t see the damage done when Democrats are in power.
I have voted against every Democrat since ‘74, aside from a few local races where I had a personal/business connection to the candidates.
“Is Trump a sinner? Yes”
But he does not feel the need to ask for God’ forgiveness!
Go figure!
Very well said.
“The facts are clear. I was born in Calgary. My parents — as a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth. And it’s been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American citizen born abroad is a citizen by birth, a natural born citizen.”—Ted Cruz There is a legal consensus on the issue. And the Naturalization Act of 1790, passed three years after the U.S. Constitution was written, said that “the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens.â€
That was just a bad analogy.
I guess we just can’t agree.
I didn’t say I wasn’t principled. I said there was a more pressing need.
To assume that Trump has had no dealings with any banks in his long business career to strain credulity. No businessman has ever done everything on his own, without having made friends and contacts in the banking world. How close those friendships and alliances truly are remains to be seen. I doubt Trump was squirted out of his mother’s womb with a fully stocked portfolio and without any need to make deals with bankers.
Well then. Nothing left to do but to get a hate on for 'em.
Jethro: I reckon that's how people wave hello to in Beverly Hills.Jed Clampett: Now why you suppose he's doing that?
Cut The Cake
Average White Band
The GOP has no more chances to lie to me.
I’m done with them.
Trump’s turn at bat. Let’s see what he does.
The betrayal the Trump faithful will have to deal with will be soul-crushing. Trump was my second choice for a while. I consider myself very fortunate to have wised up. If I end up voting for him in the general election, at least I’ll be prepared what to expect.
Thank you for your comment. Sarah Palin knows both Trump and Cruz personally and professionally. To me her endorsement means a great deal because I trust her judgment.
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