Posted on 05/10/2016 12:20:07 PM PDT by fella
Hillary Clinton snagged another endorsement over the weekend, but don't expect her to trumpet it on the campaign trail.
"I have a little announcement to make ... I'm voting for Hillary. I am endorsing Hillary," noted conservative author P.J. O'Rourke said on NPR's Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me. The episode aired over the weekend.
If the Clinton campaign wants to tout O'Rourke's support as it tries to woo moderate Republicans who supported Jeb Bush and George W. Bush, it might want to end the quote there.
"I am endorsing Hillary, and all her lies and all her empty promises," O'Rourke continued. "It's the second-worst thing that can happen to this country, but she's way behind in second place. She's wrong about absolutely everything, but she's wrong within normal parameters."
That last line could be the real key to why so many conservatives just can't get on the Trump Train. Yes, Hillary Clinton is awful, but we all know what kind of awful she is. She has been quite comfortable displaying her awfulness to America for decades now. That doesn't mean one should vote for her (I certainly wouldn't), but she is rather easy to figure out.
Trump, for all his overexposure, is an unknown commodity as far as what he would be like running a big people's country. As we saw the other day, his business acumen doesn't always transition smoothly to the political realm. His supporters find his frequent pivots on issues refreshing and endearing, but the number of do-overs he gets in the Oval Office will be greatly diminished. All in all, it's a recipe for disaster and a good chunk of the electorate is trying to see what happens if it gets cooked in the microwave with a fork in it.
The Great Trump Hope is all predicated on him never changing his mind and working within parameters once elected. Thus far, all he's done is change his mind more frequently than Bette Midler changes outfits in a four-hour show, and display a complete unfamiliarity with any parameters.
But he's got hats.
O’Rourke cracks me up.
I think hitlary is just as evil as obunghole.
Trump might not pan out. But even at his worst he would be faaaaaaar better than Drooling Evil.
Shows how “conservative” he really is.
He may be right that the wrongness of Hilary is within what has become normal parameters, but that merely serves to say bad things about normal parameters. Trump is a leap into the dark, and one may argue for or against the leap into the dark, but I can not see the argument against the leap being an argument to lift a finger for Hilary.
Anyone who supports Hillary is by definition NOT conservative
[Not sure what to think of this.]
I’m sure what to think of this.
This person is an idiot liberal.
There’s your answer.
I think he’s saying “Better the devil you know than the devil you dont.”
She will probably not want to repeat most of what he said. P.J. O’Rourke has blasted both parties fairly regularly.
Guess P.J. O’Rourke doesn’t care much for the Bill of Rights which Hillary will shred.
“She’s wrong about absolutely everything, but she’s wrong within normal parameters.”
Not even close. She’s an Alinskyite and you cannot conceive what she will do if she is given real power. She has been very plain about wanting to suspend (or ignore) the first and second amendments. She is absolutely guaranteed to collapse the country. Her presidency will only end in a police state or a bloody civil war.
With Hillary PJ could publish a book a week. Sort of the publishing equivalent of the serial movies.
Trump still has time to change peoples’ minds.
You think the FreeRepublic will survive eight years of Clinton?
“Yes, Hillary Clinton is awful, but we all know what kind of awful she is. She has been quite comfortable displaying her awfulness to America for decades now”
Frigging idiot.
And THESE are the overpaid hacks the right actually depends on to counter-balance the leftist media?
Time to clear these bastards out from one end to the other. Enough!
No one elected them as our media. Send them all to the poor house, and see if their Democrats buddies will bail them out!
P.J. is more like Trump than Trump is. Who knows what is going on in his drug-addled brain.
Agreed, it is a contradiction in terms. (Conservative endorsing a criminally corrupt Marxist.)
IMO, it is safer to endorse a successful businessman who may be a middle-of-the-roader than someone with Mrs. BJ's public record.
“With Hillary PJ could publish a book a week. “
Thus the reason why the old conservative media (aka the society of people that get rich off of complaining) would rather have her!
To them, they think it will be the good old days of the 90s!
He has now officially joined the Parliament Of Whores
O’Rourke is a libertarian. In non-linear politics, this belief system sometimes comes full circle into what is seen as liberalism.
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