[papertyger]

Again, I have trouble expressing how truly disappointing I find your posturing on this issue.

In pursuit of validating your point, whether because of ego or conviction, you see only violence in these quotes, and obviously consider that sufficient to prove your point. What has wholly escaped your attention is that in each and every one of the quotes you present there is a common thread: the frustrated desire to be unmolested at a gathering of common cause.

You have adopted the ethos of the left.

Apparently you consider meekly accepting the provocations of those looking to disrupt the only acceptable response to those actions. To that end, you have also adopted the “only purpose of a gun is to kill people” doctrine and/or dogma.

I do not agree.

Furthermore, I say with an absolutely clear conscience nothing you have quoted, along with the spectacularly peaceable nature that characterizes Trump rallies in general, or the heinous social extortion exhibited by the left, can in any way lay responsibility for that extortion at the feet of Donald Trump.

If verbally expressing the desire for a manly defense constitutes an offense, what are you doing on a conservative forum?

[nathanbedford]

Manly defense?

Real courage does not come from exhorting the mob of tens of thousands to attack an individual already at their mercy, nor is the timber of a president to be found there. Donald Trump repeatedly failed the country miserably because he chose the low road. A decent man, a Donald Trump or a Ronald Reagan, would have converted every occasion in which I have quoted for you Trump's bullying to extol the Constitution and encourage the audience in an inspiring discourse on free speech. He would have uplifted the occasion rather than play the Mussolini.

Donald Trump once again corsens America. What will he do as president?

The scary part is that people who should be seasoned conservatives who have been exposed to Free Republic for years are so easily seduced by a pseudo-conservative, anti-constitutional demagogue. Rather than lift their eyes to a kind of man who could be president of the United States, a man who loves and respects the Constitution like Ted Cruz, they wallow in the muck with Donald Trump and they attack the man who points the way to the shining city on the Hill.

A Manly defense inspires the people to hold to constitutional principles, explains why free speech is essential to a democratic republic, relates it all to the Constitution and ennobles and enriches his audience rather than enlisting them as co-felons.

Donald Trump will probably gain the nomination and likely lose the election. Even if he wins the election, we will be facing one such Trump fiasco after another and every one of his supporters will have to work overtime to find somebody else to blame. Yesterday it was Mark Levin, then it was Rush Limbaugh, now it is Ted Cruz. In the end there will be nobody left to blame except the those who were so eagerly seduced by this rank demagogue.