No, I Don't Believe Donald Trump Is a Conservative

Townhall.com ^ | March 22, 2016 | David Limbaugh

[Redleg Duke]

The way the Texas vote fraud happened, what is gooing to happen in Utah chills me!

[longtermmemmory]

because cruz and kasic’s usual platitudes work so well this morning...

[UCANSEE2]

Conservatism has become a cult. These self appointed high priests of conservatism declare who is pure enough.

Conservative has turned into a convenient 'label' just like environmentalism.

It even reminds me of the current trend in our society of labeling yourself whatever suits your emotions at the time. Like Bruce Jenner declaring he's a female.

[jacknhoo]

I think it is funny how the term “conservative” is tossed around. Like Lindsey Graham and John McCain and Mitt Romney use it to describe the Republican Party members they trumpet. Like they’ll say Marco Rubio is a tested conservative or Jeb Bush is a proven conservative.

These embiciles must think the rest of the world are complete fools.

They’ll say, Donald Trump is not conservative like it is a stain on the party to have him run.

The thing is, Donald Trump may not be “conservative” in all he does, but he’s a whole lot more conservative than Graham, McCain, Romney, Bush or Rubio.

Personally, I don’t consider a North American Union and Amnesty to be conservative principles. Nor do I consider UN directive Islamist invasions or UN directive trade agreements to be conservative.

[Nifster]

Sorry boyo I don’t care what you think or what you want. Both you and your brother thought W was a conservative

[moovova]

Well said, sir. The part that scares me the most...

“We either win this now or we have little chance of ever doing it again politically.”

[Nifster]

meh.

Try reading his policy books or listentening to his interviews or speeches over the years. He dislikes govt regulation. He dislikes the tax structure. He loves the US. Frankly he never worked in the GOPe ranks

Good enough. Better than Ted (I love my govt job and I am a lawyer) Cruz

[TexasCajun]

"effete"

My word for the day. :)

[Nifster]

What crapola. The brothers Limbaugh convinced people that W was a rock solid conservative. I don’t trust their judgement particularly the lawyer David

[Nifster]

That oh so conservative W tried to open the borders with Mexico just shortly after 9/11.

I am so tired of the lawyerly political class. These wonks can go pound sand.

By the by nicely written response. True words well said

[Bubba Gump Shrimp]

Since National Review and the GOP get to decide who is a conservative and who is not, I think I too will refrain from joining in their exclusive club.

It’s not worth the admission fee for the privilege to be called “conservative”.

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

Rush must have said "Listen here brother David, if you don't hit Donald Trump hard, I'll never push another of your books!"

And David responded by saying "Of course I will brother ElRushbo, I know how important your connections to Mexico are, I'll do as you command, now let me have some pain killers."

[Bubba Gump Shrimp]

It takes a Harvard lawyer to explain how the founders meant that Natural Born was really: Chinese Born/Iranian Born/Soviet Born/Mexican Born/Kenyan Born/Canadian Born.

Sorry, I’m just a poorly educated Trumpeteer, I don’t understand that sort of nuance....

Only in the minds of a snake (or lawyer).

[carjic]

Well written and spot on!

[nitzy]

..When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn’t like it. “Compromise” was a dirty word to them

I wonder if those conservatives were against his amnesty plan in '86? Sometimes fidelity to principal and NOT cutting deals is the best policy.

“Conservative” politicians talk a good game and then go to DC and accomplish nothing. After 30 years of fail, it is time to try another solution. The winning candidate is, brace yourselves.... going to have to cut DEALS! And some times those deals require..compromise!!!

Of course they accomplish nothing when they are one or two Senators amount 98 socialists or socialist sympathizers. The idea of "compromise" that has been embraced by the GOPe has been, "We will be so happy if we let the socialists move our country further to the left as long as they give hand outs to our corporate benefactors.

As Cruz has said, his type of deal is..."O.K. I will accept only half the loaf of bread. Then once I have the bread, I immediately ask for the other half."

Our idea of victory cannot be one in which we temporarily stop the Democrats from moving to full on Socialism. It needs to be a completely free market, a universal embrace of the 10th amendment, no abortions in the United States, no more subsidization of bad behavior among the poor, no more corporate welfare, etc...

Those should be the goals. Only their full realization should be considered a victory. Anything less than that should be considered a half victory / half loss. Moving even one inch closer to socialism in any regard should be considered an unacceptable failure.

[poconopundit]

...Conservatism has become a cult.

Totally agree.  And despite all these claims that Trump is not 98.4% pure, Trump has done more to advance Conservative principles than any person since Reagan.  And yet both Trump and Reagan were not member of the Conservative cult, nor the Conservative prophecy, nor the Conservative world domination... or something like that.

Time for the GOP to rally around a true leader and the one who the majority of Conservatives, Evangelicals, NorthEasters, Southerners, and Rust Belters have voted for.  Time to...

[Paradox]

I have some pretty serious concerns about Trump. Yes, I would vote for him over Hillary, but yes, I would far prefer someone like Cruz over him.

If only Cruz hadn't stabbed us all in the back by blaming Donald for the violence, that really bothered me.

Trumpbots dont seem the least bit concerned about Trumps negatives, and thats why I dont like them. But Trump is the tip of the spear in so many fights we have these days, as "ugly" as he might be, the fights he is on our side on, at this time in history, is enough.

[bella1]

Do you listen to Rush? Is he conservative in real life? How many times has he been married? Who was the guest of honor and singer at his last wedding? Do you know the answers? If not they are easily gotten and once you get them ask yourself if those are conservative family values.

[Mozilla]

I do believe that Trump is conservative on many issues but not all. He is a common sense guy who is like Palin and Coulter on various issues like border security, immigration and trade. I get that there is a string of populism to him. So you could say his policies and platform is one of a common sense populist conservative.

[Arm_Bears]

If not for his brother, would we have ever heard of David Limbaugh?