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.
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Wrong. Show a link that says what you say. I’ll gladly go read it. It doesn’t exist.
LMAO
I suspect it was you who slithered from DU to FR to do your dirty little lefty agitprop.
You have no track record and as such no credibility.
Unless Breitbart, ConservativeReview, and a myriad of other sites aren't kosher enough for your tastes.
That's right.....they are all prop agents against Trump, therefore they are illegitimate.
The echo chamber is what is the Delphic Oracle.
Whatever.
The 2015 -2016 Trump duping of FR is sad to say the least.
My credibility is between my Heavenly Father and I.
You have zero freedom if you rely on a bunch of politicians to grant it to you.
My freedom is not granted to me by politicians. It is God given and backed up by the Constitution and my arsenal.
It used to be a pretty good conservative site.
You aren't the sharpest tack in the box, that's for sure.
I already know your link does not exist. Your obligation is to prove your accusation that Trump supports planned parenthood. Provide a link where he has said that in this campaign.
Trump continued, "I would look at the good aspects of [Planned Parenthood], and I would also look, because I'm sure they do some things properly and good and that are good for women, and I would look at that, and I would look at other aspects also. But we have to take care of women."
Explain what that means?
He would fund PP. PP would still suck the brains from babies. Tax dollars would be in the mix. All those "good things" that PP does for women can be, and are done, by women's health clinics that do NOT perform abortions. Fund those with tax dollars and let private sources fund infanticide.
nice going.
you woke up all the dinosaurs.
I haven’t seen so many from the classes of 98-99 in one thread in a long while.
They’re all so close, one grenade gets ‘em all.
BTW ... FR jumped the shark with the new copy and paste hieroglyphs
Lesson?
You'll say whatever pops into your head, not thinking it out.
Unstable much?
Isn’t that what I just said?
Reagan must’ve given you fits.
Link?
Don’t be lazy.
Yaelle is right when he points out
“It’s because he is bold, patriotic, and very rich so he can protect his family from what may threaten them.”
There is no way a city like mine, Los Angeles, could have been a sanctuary city for 30 years without some sort of intimidation. A single person, a mayor, a police chief, a city state or federal attorney general, all the courts, all the governors, and all the presidents for the last 30 years.
Then you add in the city council, the school board, the IRS, welfare and on and on. It is not possible to do without some sort of intimidation.
I wish I could lie, given the fact I was born not too long after Roe v. Wade and am a staunchly pro-life adult. Many times over the course of my life I wished for brain bleach. Other times, I tried to comfort myself by assuming better of the adult who brought me there, thinking maybe it was supposed to be God's demonstration. But then something happened to someone else in my life, and that same adult urged that someone else to seek an abortion.
You don't have a single clue, that's for sure. You're the one lashing out emotionally. Try using your brain next time.
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