Posted on 03/26/2016 5:28:52 AM PDT by C19fan
The way I understand it, the rules don't get written until the convention starts....new or rewritten rules for each election cycle.... or maybe they have been written, just unpublished for now.
The eGOP< which National Review is part of, is scared silly that they will fall from power in DC if Trump wins because Trump is NOT a DC insider.
“National Review will never be able to make sense of a President Trump. They don’t understand the American people. “
Yeah they do. NR’s sniveling girlyboys understand them, and hate them.
“ABRAHAM LINCOLN was a backwoods logsplitter, not a quiche
eating dandy.”
He was a successful lawyer and Whig activist.
Fake name is my guess.
By “activist” - what do you mean?
I like the platform of the Constitution Party but DT would never be able to agree to it.
Just that Lincoln was involved in politics from a young age and he wasn’t a rube from the country for very much of his life. No more so than any other politician born in what had been frontier states like Kentucky.
Selling Lincoln as a ‘rail splitter’ was the idea of a fellow Illinois politician named Oglesby, and it was done to make voters think of Lincoln as a humble man of the people rather than an ambitious lawyer.
Emphasizing your humble roots was as a popular campaign theme at the time as it is today. Which is why we endlessly hear Kasich speaking of his father being a mailman.
In fact Lincoln was driven by ambition. His very close friend William Herndon described him this way: “His Ambition Was An Engine That Knew No Rest”
Lincoln was elected to the Illinois legislature as a Whig in 1834 when he was just 25 yrs old, serving four terms. He attended Whig Party conventions, statge and national. He ran for US Congress as a Whig in 1846 and was elected. He was elected to the Illinois House again in 1854 as Whig. When the Whigs collapsed he joined the new Republican Party.
Lincoln was a wealthy corporate lawyer who helped railroads screw little people.
Lincoln was indeed a railroad lawyer. Railroads were the big dogs of that era, right up to the beginning of the 20th century.
They tended to run roughshod over little people and their high handedness played a role in the rise of the populist and progressive movements about 30 years after Lincoln.
So NR and Avi Snyder advocates intentionally losing the election, while another of their articles is titled “GOP Should Steal Nomination from Trump”.
This is what the once proud publication has devolved to, a champion of losers and cheaters. Wow.
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