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Bernard Goldberg: Conservative Purists Could Cost the GOP the White House in 2016
National Review ^
| September 1, 2015
| Bernard Goldberg
Posted on 09/01/2015 3:49:31 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Bluestocking
Well, I do like the fact that Trump fights back. It’s refreshing. But Cruz does too.
To: gorush
I can’t stand Bernie. Liberal hardliners/purists get victory. We don’t.
To: RckyRaCoCo; moder_ator
Sorry Mod...I thought I toned it down enough...
To: EveningStar
“Did you read the whole article, or just the excerpt?”
There was an article?
Did Goldberg redeem himself in the article, or was he as asinine there as he was in the excerpt?
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posted on
09/01/2015 6:01:44 PM PDT
by
SharpRightTurn
(Been shown repeatedly that Mittens would not have won with 70% of the “Hispanic vote”. What killed)
To: EveningStar
Oh shut up, Bernie! The days of nose holding are over.
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posted on
09/01/2015 6:05:14 PM PDT
by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: Idaho_Cowboy
For heavens sake, the purist shouldn't be in support of Trump, yet look at his poll numbers. Enough people are mad and they want someone with fire and passion... What sticks in the back of my mind is that long conversation Trump had with Bill Clinton. Any exchange anyone has had with Clinton longer than "Hi" and "Bye" should excite suspicion -- he's that bad news.
I'm thinking of the timing of Trump's campaign announcement (right after the conversation) and that old saying about Slick and Beastwoman: "You can say one thing about the Clintons: When they need something from you, they're there for you."
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posted on
09/01/2015 6:20:09 PM PDT
by
lentulusgracchus
("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
To: mrsmel
Yes, the Cochran/McDaniel race was where they showed their hole card. At least I gave to McDaniel, from far away .... I can sleep at night, knowing I raised my hand against Yurtle the Turtle and his open hypocrisy and collaborationism.
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posted on
09/01/2015 6:27:44 PM PDT
by
lentulusgracchus
("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
To: EveningStar
When I made my original post I only read the excerpt.
Now that I read the article my opinion has not changed. Goldberg is missing the point. He does not distinguish between people who are "conservative purists" that will not vote for Bush and reasonable people like myself who are fed with being insulted by a member of a family that they supported since the Reagan administration.
I voted for Romney and think he would have been far better than the Marxist crook in the White House but enough is enough. If Bush wanted my vote he should have spent the last 8 years studying the Constitution instead of studying how to make a good guacamole auditioning for the Ambassador to Mexico.
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posted on
09/01/2015 6:27:57 PM PDT
by
Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: COBOL2Java
The credibility collapse of the GOPe, in 13 words and three photos.
Well done.
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posted on
09/01/2015 7:08:21 PM PDT
by
TChad
To: duffee
That is a truly epic flipping of the bird :D
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posted on
09/01/2015 9:38:29 PM PDT
by
chris37
(Heartless)
To: EveningStar
imo, Trump is not a conservative purist either. I wish he were! I believe that some of the time he is sincere, but much of the time he is just telling us what we want to hear.
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posted on
09/01/2015 9:50:49 PM PDT
by
Sun
(Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
To: EveningStar
Ok.. ive see two National Review articles posted...
one bashing conservative for selling out their values for supporting Trump...
one bashing conservative for being conservative purest and supporting Trump
NR you can not have it both ways
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posted on
09/01/2015 10:43:38 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(SCOTUS=News peak)
To: BenLurkin
Dole McCain Romney eomNot quite eom:
We ended up with
Clinton
Obama
Obama
now we can add the eom.....
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posted on
09/02/2015 2:46:24 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
To: EveningStar
“They’re delusional, of course, blinded by their right-wing ideology...”
Why are clinical terms always applied to the minds of so-called right-wingers?
Just asking.
IMHO
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posted on
09/02/2015 4:58:40 AM PDT
by
ripley
To: chris37
Yes it is, I co-opted it and sent it to my friends as a salute to democrats and rinos, thank you.
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posted on
09/02/2015 6:18:51 AM PDT
by
duffee
(No money to the Mississippi Republican Party as long as joe nosef is chairman)
To: chris37
Yes it is, I co-opted it and sent it to my friends as a salute to democrats and rinos, thank you.
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posted on
09/02/2015 6:19:14 AM PDT
by
duffee
(No money to the Mississippi Republican Party as long as joe nosef is chairman)
To: txhurl
I agree its going to be hard to derail the Trump train if he gets the GOP nomination.
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posted on
09/02/2015 6:45:40 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: FreedomPoster
Milquetoast moderate Republicans cost the GOP the Presidency in 1992, 1996, 2008, and 2012, just for starters.
Your statement implies that some other candidates other than the actual ones in those years could have won...care to share with us who those mystery candidates were...?
To: IrishBrigade
Do you think if Bush hadn’t gone soft on taxes he’d have lost on 1992?
And you’re really defending the idea that there was no one better than Dole, McCain, and Romney in those years? Really?
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posted on
09/02/2015 8:08:00 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: tophat9000
NR you can not have it both ways Did you notice that the two articles were written by two different authors?
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