Hey Republicans, Maybe We Should Consider Electing Someone With Integrity

The Blaze ^ | August 7, 2015 | Matt Walsh

[over3Owithabrain]

Actually Trump is very well liked by people who personally work with him. Penn Jillette - no conservative - said he really likes Trump and everyone who worked with Trump on the TV show felt the same. Trump’s ex wife defends him loudly against the false rape allegations and other nonsense.

Now Rosie O Donnell has never liked him so you have that going for ya

[OddLane]

I should have clarified that statement.

I did not mean that there are no intelligent, outspoken voices on this subject.

I'm a huge admirer of Jeff Sessions, and in an ideal world, he would have been one of the candidates on that stage.

The problem is that, like Senator Sessions, anyone who does have the clout and intent to address this subject are consciously excluded from decision-making power by sheer weight of the corporate-media-political complex that demands unfettered mass immigration from the third world.

[Flying Circus]

Aside from being on the right side and an excellent rhetorician, I don’t see where Cruz has proved himself capable of executive leadership needed in the presidency.

[mongrel]

I’m sure he’s personally likable, but in service of himself he’s screwed over a lot of people in his life. His talent for ingratiating himself back into good favor with some of them doesn’t take away his track record.

Many of his business ventures were stupidly done out of ego, there’s clear evidence for that. And this presidential run is being done for the same reasons, out of collusion with Hillary, or both. No matter which way it turns out, it’s not a platform that allows you to reliably predict how he’ll govern.

In two years he could just as easily turn around and say that everyone who wants to build a wall is a putz. And he has a track record of doing that kind of thing. And are the Trumpbots going to feel better because he’s good at getting you to say thank you while he sticks his knife in your back?

[mongrel]

That’s also my biggest concern with Cruz. With the right chief of staff and VP, he could do well. I think he has the capacity and leadership to know that.

[DoughtyOne]

I cannot get over the absurdity of some FReepers, and they don’t even realize it when they do the absurd thing.

We have watched the Left trash us unmercifully for literally decades. Clear back into Reagan’s day they bashed, trashed, and lashed out at us.

How many thousands of times have we said, “Dammit, why doesn’t our side defend our values and our honor?”

Along comes a guy who dishes as good as he gets, and all of a sudden he’s described as a rude obnoxious bastard who would destroy our nation.

They actually said that about Ronald Reagan too. Do you realize that?

Donald Trump is not the perfect man.

Frankly I haven’t seen one on our side. We can talk about the flaws in every candidate. And yep, every one of them has them.

All these supposedly Conservative sites that are outing themselves right now, are losing standing with me.

I’m not the only one either.

[DoughtyOne]

We could argue that point..., but I agree with your angle.

[DoughtyOne]

Yeah, and after all, who cares if he replaces our high tech industry workers with a lot more H1-B visa holders?

And of course one more massive trade deal costing more U. S. Citizens their jobs, is nothing to worry about.

He told us he was against it, and then voted for support legislation.

If you folks want to continue on with trashing people, you’re going to find plenty of others will want to join in.

You are a clown.

[Iscool]

A false charge of lack of integrity...Trump and his proposed policies are the polar opposite of these GOPe phoneys...Why even try to compare them??? Trump doesn’t fit in with the GOPe yet he is allowed to run for President within their group...They are going nuts trying to figure out how to get him out of their club...

The people are seeing it as a rose springing up among a bunch of dandelions...And what a sight it is...

[dfwgator]

More blab, blab, blab. What is being done to Trump is what will be done to whomever survives.

Exactly. You think they'll be any nicer to Jeb once he gets the nomination? HA!

[mongrel]

I was totally on board with the first part of your comment. Then you lost me with the last part.

You said:
“How many thousands of times have we said, ‘Dammit, why doesn’t our side defend our values and our honor?’”

A dishonorable man is not able to defend our values and honor, no matter what he says. He’s not defending our values and honor, he’s just dishing back. That’s not a reliable leader.

I don’t reject him because he’s a rude, obnoxious bastard, I reject him because he has shown no mooring in his life except serving himself and talking about how great he is. That’s not just a flaw, that’s a man who came late to the conservative party and shows evidence he’s not staying long.

[fifedom]

The problem is that, like Senator Sessions, anyone who does have the clout and intent to address this subject are consciously excluded from decision-making power by sheer weight of the corporate-media-political complex that demands unfettered mass immigration from the third world.

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OK, we are mostly on the same page. But I think the reason Trump is getting attention on this issue is not that he helps but because he makes people who oppose the illegal’s invasion look bad.

I am concerned about Trump’s probable third party run. The only way to stop that is if his poll numbers drop to near zero. There are probably not enough people here on Free Republic to make a difference but we have to start somewhere. We need to try to bring some sanity to the IMO unjustified support he is getting even here.

[mongrel]

A false charge?

1. 3 Marriages, he had an affair in the first one.
2. Numerous bankruptcies.
3. Playing both sides in politics until the last few years.

Trump always has a plan B. It’s part of his understanding of dealmaking. And what’s his plan B here?

[DoughtyOne]

Frankly, the way you’re presenting yourself here on these threads against Trump, I don’t really care if you like anything I have said.

The man is presenting our views. You may not like it but he is presenting YOUR views. He’s doing it loudly and clearly.

Quit trying to frag him. He is on your side.

[Milton Miteybad]

Except that, in the case of Trump, all available evidence indicates that he's not even a Republican, much less a conservative. He has, however, been in bed with the Clintons for decades. Suddenly, he decides to step out of the shadows and into the GOP nomination race with illegal immigration as his signature issue, after years of abject silence on the matter. When he does that, thousands of GOP primary voters line up behind this guy, dividing the vote of the party, all to the complete benefit of Hitlery Clinton, his political client was of long standing.

Pardon me for thinking that the Clintons have found a way to make this look easy. Theirs is an almost "can't lose" strategy at this point.

[itsahoot]

Trump has all but announced his intention to hand the presidency to Hillary Clinton if Republican voters don’t comply with his demands, essentially blackmailing us by threatening to put a tyrant in office if we don’t give him what he wants.

It is not the voters that must comply but the corrupt GOPe that determines the rules. If it were up to the voter likely this would already be over.

[itsahoot]

and I’m trained to see the train-wrecks before they happen.

See'em or plot em?

[mongrel]

I don’t have that kind of skill to plot them. It would be kind of cool though.

[DoughtyOne]

Except that, in the case of Trump, all available evidence indicates that he's not even a Republican, much less a conservative. He has, however, been in bed with the Clintons for decades. Suddenly, he decides to step out of the shadows and into the GOP nomination race with illegal immigration as his signature issue, after years of abject silence on the matter. When he does that, thousands of GOP primary voters line up behind this guy, dividing the vote of the party, all to the complete benefit of Hitlery Clinton, his political client was of long standing.  Pardon me for thinking that the Clintons have found a way to make this look easy. Theirs is an almost "can't lose" strategy at this point.

If I were to describe what you probably think of Donald Trump, it would go something like this.

He's brash, insulting, self-centered, egotistical, narcisistic, rude...

Another words, he's in it for himself.

He has donated to the Clintons.  He's had pictures taken with them.  They even came to one of his weddings.

Knowing what we know about the man, what does that tell you?

Does it tell you he was ideologically connected to them at the hip?  This is a man too busy to be with his own family, but all of a sudden he's there to support the Clintons because he's ideologically one with them.

Trump had many guests at his wedding.  I'll bet some Republicans were there too.  Being in the New York area, there may not have been many highly visible ones, but I'll bet some were there.

We know that he donated very large sums of money to Republicans too.  It was on the record.

So what do we make of this?

Where the Clintons at his wedding because he supported them, or is it more likely they were there as window dressing to make him look more important?

One day folks are telling me Trump is always in it for himself.  The next day they tell me he was selfless and in it just to support the political policies of the Clinton's.

I suggest folks use these tactics to their best advantage, until they listen to Trump for the first time, hear what he has to say on issues very important to you and I.

Then maybe they'll see Trump as a guy who has had to sit down and address issues he didn't have time to address before.  And maybe they'll like what they hear.