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What Donald Trump's Win In South Carolina Says About The Republican Party (Compares to Wallace)
The Huffington Post's Huffpost Politics ^ | February 20, 2016 | Igor Bobic and Ryan Grim

Posted on 02/20/2016 6:09:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Donald Trump comfortably defeated his Republican presidential rivals on Saturday in South Carolina's GOP primary.

Trump's resounding victory isn't simply a boon to his prospects for winning the Republican presidential nomination, an outcome once thought impossible that is looking increasingly more plausible. It is also an embarrassing repudiation of conservative orthodoxy that has dominated Republican politics for decades. It suggests that the party's intellectual leaders, who organized the base around the National Review/Weekly Standard consensus -- small government, free trade, pro-Israel, deregulation, low taxes, social conservatism and an aggressive foreign policy -- have been generals of a phantom army.

The troops, instead, are marching with Trump, who bested his rivals in South Carolina by campaigning against nearly everything the Bush family, the Republican Party and neoconservatives who supported military interventions advocated for. Among his many breaks with the elite consensus, Trump declared that former President George W. Bush had lied about weapons of mass destruction to march the country to war; blamed Bush for the 9/11 attacks, arguing that he ignored intelligence community warnings; defended Planned Parenthood; boasted that he was the only Republican who would not cut Social Security or Medicare; said he approved of the individual mandate in Obamacare; and promised to slap onerous tariffs on companies who outsource jobs.

And where Washington and New York-based GOP leaders pledge outreach to immigrants, moderate Muslims and other minorities, the reality TV star plays more overt racial politics than any national candidate since George Wallace....

(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...


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To: Cicero
If Trump really was a liberal, why would HuffPo spend every day trying to destroy him?

There have been a flurry of Huffington Post articles posted here lately that were positive for Trump. They mocpst certainly are not out for him - they are being taunted here by his supporters.

21 posted on 02/20/2016 6:30:07 PM PST by 5thGenTexan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“It is also an embarrassing repudiation of conservative orthodoxy that has dominated Republican politics for decades. “

What BS.

It’s a repudiation of the Rockefeller wing fueled disaster since 1988. Even with a Congressional takeover in 1994, it was a very short matter of time until the establishment whoremasters destroyed that milestone too.


22 posted on 02/20/2016 6:36:18 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The reality of Trump winning the GOP nomination and winning the White House has sunk in for the liberals.

From now on out, the liberals will attempt to distract voters from Trump’s ideas and try to hurt him in November.


23 posted on 02/20/2016 6:39:25 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"It is also an embarrassing repudiation of conservative LIBERAL orthodoxy that has dominated Republican politics for decades. "

Fixed it.

In what world did they think Romney and McCain were conservative?

24 posted on 02/20/2016 6:46:13 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well. Wallace and Trump are both left-wingers.


25 posted on 02/20/2016 6:47:11 PM PST by Flightdeck
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Keep talking Leftists. The more you scream “racists” the more and more people stop listening.


26 posted on 02/20/2016 6:56:06 PM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: 5thGenTexan

Every Huffpoop article talks about the “Racist Donald Trump” they are not positive in any way shape or form about Trump


27 posted on 02/20/2016 7:02:11 PM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: MNJohnnie

Then why are Trump supporters posting them here?


28 posted on 02/20/2016 7:06:59 PM PST by 5thGenTexan
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To: headstamp 2

It is the final purge of the Bush-era of the GOP.


29 posted on 02/20/2016 7:09:57 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
George Wallace.

Wasn't he a famous...

...Democrat?


30 posted on 02/20/2016 7:21:20 PM PST by Bratch
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
It says nothing good about the Republican party.
Aw, sour grapes because your boy came in 3rd? Gee, guess that BS poll showing Cruz winning was wrong, wasn't it?Unless, of course, you consider 3rd place as "winning".
31 posted on 02/20/2016 7:33:46 PM PST by softwarecreator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The peoples revenge on the lying GOP who were voted in to battle Obama but decided to join him, rot in hell


32 posted on 02/20/2016 7:37:10 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: GeronL

Donald Trump is no more liberal that Ronald Reagan.

People hold up Ronald Reagan as the ultimate conservative.
There is no such thing. Everyone makes compromises.

Ronald Reagan/s liberal actions:

In 1950 Reagan helped raise money
for democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas
against Richard Nixon for California senator.

In 1966, Reagan put together a campaign group
to run for California governor. They were
Phil Battaglia, Casper Weinberger and Jack Warner.
They were all from the liberal Rockefeller wing of
the Republican party, not the conservative Goldwater wing.

Reagan Gets Bill Easing Abortion In California - Jun 14, 1967

June 14, 1967 The California Assembly passed and sent to Governor Reagan a bill easing the state/s abortion law, unchanged in 95 years.
Reagan said the bill was /by no means perfect/ and would have to be watched closely to prevent California from becoming an abortion haven.
But he said he would sign it despite his doubts about some possible /loopholes./ /I am fully sympathetic with attempts to liberalize the outdated abortion law now on the law books of California,/ the freshman governor said....
The bill...would permit abortions before the 20th week of pregnancy if:

-The prospective mother/s physical or mental health is in danger.

-The pregnancy resulted from incest or forcible rape, or statutory rape in the case of a girl 14 years old or younger.

The old law permits abortions only if the life of the prospective mother is endangered.

Reagan Gets Bill Easing Abortion In California - The Norwalk Hour - Jun 14, 1967
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yAlJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dAUNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5620%2C3433380

1970 Governor Reagan, who once said /taxes should hurt/,
disclosed he paid no state income taxes in 1970 on his
$44,000 governor/s salary and personal assets of around $1-million.
The average worker made around $5,000 per year back then.

1970 as governor, Reagan appointed Donald Wright as the
Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court. Wright/s
court later found the death penalty unconstitutional in California.

1972 Reagan supported the re-election of President Richard Nixon instead of giving support to conservative Republican candidate John Ashbrook, who ran an effort to dump Nixon.

As California Governor, Reagan used his own office funds to keep the Office of Economic Opportunity alive in the state and he tried to make California the first state to create its own consumer affairs dept.

1976 in his presidential run against Gerald Ford, Reagan chose the most liberal Republican Senator in the senate, Richard Schweiker as his vice presidential running mate. In 1980, he chose another liberal running mate
George HW Bush.

1985 Reagan, as president, spent $5-billion to bail out the Continental Bank of Illinois. He also added
$9-billion to the International Monetary Fund so Mexico, Brazil and Argentina could pay the interest on
their big debts to the American banks. At the same time, he would not bail out American farmers.

Reagan/s 4th year budget was $141-billion more than Carter/s 4th year budget. Reagan/s total deficits for 4 years was 4-times the total of Carter 4-year total deficits.

Reagan increased the national debt in 4-years as much as all the presidents from Hoover to Carter did.

Reagan Supported the Brady Gun Bill in a speech at George Washington University in 1991.

In 1992 Reagan supported NAFTA (North American Free Trade Act) As a candidate in 1979 Reagan first talked about a North American accord. In 1992 Reagan made a plea in a Wall Street Journal editorial to, /tear down the trade wall/.


33 posted on 02/20/2016 7:37:30 PM PST by r_barton (We the People of the United States...)
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He's living up in your heads, rent-free!
Since the 1st, to the topic #3399757, 1329 topics have either "Donald" or "Trump" (or both) in the title, a mere 66 per day average (unless you don't like averages, I've seen that in at least one Trump-bashing topic).

34 posted on 02/20/2016 7:42:49 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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35 posted on 02/20/2016 7:48:09 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

National Review/Weekly Standard Aren’t what hey used to be.

What does it say about the GOPe? The jig is up.

We’re pissed. We’re tired of being used and abused by the people we vote into office to carry out our wishes, only to have them do the opposite once they get there.

There comes a time, when you should just let the bull loose in the china shop.

Risky? Very much so. But maintaining the status quo hasn’t been working out for us so well. And I for one, don’t trust the GOPe.


36 posted on 02/20/2016 7:50:35 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: catnipman
You forgot to add, "removed federal funding for Planned Parenthood."

You are, unfortunately, 100% correct.

After years of donating, all my RNC emails now go directly to the spam box.

37 posted on 02/20/2016 7:51:24 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: softwarecreator

Yes, it is sour grapes. Congratulations to you. I will not help at any stage of this contest to place Trump or Kangaroo-B.O. in the White House. If that means you guys help Hillary win then that is on you.


38 posted on 02/20/2016 8:09:31 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump has succeeded in smearing the only Conservative in the race. That is what is says. Furthermore it says that Trump will lose the nomination to Rubio because Trump smeared the wrong candidate.


39 posted on 02/20/2016 8:13:40 PM PST by Eva
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To: catnipman

Thank you. If the g(r)ope party were for any of the things listed there would not be this restlessness in the base.

I want this party....
— small government, free trade, pro-Israel, deregulation, low taxes, social conservatism ... (Not feeling the world domination)....
Throw on some pro-free enterprise and equal enforcement of the law and I am in!


40 posted on 02/20/2016 8:25:09 PM PST by NotQuiteCricket (Spoons cause obesity. Please call congress to pass a law banning spoons, for the children's future.)
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