Posted on 12/20/2015 4:21:10 PM PST by Mariner
Phyllis Schlafly, an icon of the conservative movement who has been active for half a century, is warning the nation: Donald Trump is the last hope for America.
Schlafly unloaded on Republicans in Congress for passing the $1.1 trillion omnibus bill last week, a move she called a “betrayal.â€
“This is a betrayal of the grassroots and of the Republican Party,†Schlafly said in an exclusive interview with WND. “We thought we were electing a different crowd to stand up for America, and they didn’t. We’re extremely outraged by what Congress has done. Nancy Pelosi couldn’t have engineered it any better. I think the people are going to react by electing Donald Trump.â€
Trump put out a statement Friday to ABC News saying, “If anyone needs more evidence of why the American people are suffering at the hands of their own government, look no further than the budget deal announced by Speaker Ryan. In order to avoid a government shutdown, a cowardly threat from an incompetent president, the elected Republicans in Congress threw in the towel and showed absolutely no budget discipline.â€
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Looks like she woke up then.
Hopefully more patriotic Americans will do the same.
I’ve been willing to go easy on the Republicans that voted for the spending bill on the premise that they want to be reelected.
But now I believe that they voted for the bill because they are not competent enough to explain to their constituencies why the bill a bad good idea.
Trump is correct: “stupid”.
You don’t know her at all.
I have followed her many years and she has worked tirelessly for conservative ideas......especially holding the Dept of Education accountable.
This woman is an icon .......
.....and you try to marginalize her and all her efforts!
Look what came after Reagan. That’s my point.
Think of what comes after Trump or Cruz, or both.
We have to reign in Washington DC. They will never do it themselves, never. So there will be no conservative future unless the states can participate again as an essential component of the Republic.
The 17th Amendment has deceptively over a hundred years neutered and subordinated the states and that is why we have a centralized federal government that is so powerful it can dictate every aspect of our lives. It also imposes perverted social dictates that fly in the face of human history.
The present structure having evolved from the 17th Amendment, is unsupportable and unsustainable to a free people. And we need not repeal the 17th to redress state suffrage, we can be clever in structurally rearranging the relation between state and federal government by other means that will serve to check federal power.
Which republicans are moving to stop this. Outside of Trump, crickets or insults.
Your false comment about Schlafly is probably one of the more absurd comments I’ve seen, on this site.
Sour grapes don’t suit you.
There is NOTHING more conservative than stopping a permanent democrat/marxist voting majority and doing whats best for the people and the country. By virtue of Mr. Trump’s position on illegal immigration he Trumps all others conservatism.
dementia isn’t pretty.
Just think: most of the ‘Syrians’ and many of the Latin American illegals coming here are illiterate-even in their own language. People will just show them a box to check. And voila! A vote.
It’s time for an American President.
She’s right.
The republicans are afraid Trump will win. Which means they lose. Yet they’re afraid shutting down the government will cause them to lose. It’s their actions that will cause them to lose.
Phyllis Schlafly is recognized universally as one of the leading Conservatives of our time.
I can’t recall ever seeing a comment of hers that I disagreed with.
You wrong, not even close.
Restore the Bible to the FREE Republic as the Founders intended. Trump and Cruz are a one-two punch for traditional values and will exterminate islam! Woo hoo!
If the last hope for America is a known liar who’ll say anything he thinks we want to hear, then we’re already lost.
Guess I just have more faith in our nation than she does.
If Hillary's elected she'll bring in 60 million South Americans, Mexicans and Syrians to give Democrats a demographic edge we'll never overcome.
Go Cruz.
>>Trump is correct: “stupidâ€.
I support Trump 100%, but I think he is just calling them ‘stupid’ because to call them what they really are might be too much for the masses to comprehend at this point in time and may cost him votes. So he just calls them stupid, instead of profoundly evil.
Rather than ‘stupid’, they are ‘owned’ (sordid secrets, blackmail) by the Globalists... the phrase I remember it being termed as, is “We either own them or we off them”.
It looks to me as though the Uniparty answers to these Globalists. Trump is a nationalist and therefore the opposite of what they want. Their livelihood depends on keeping the nationalists out of their “private little party”, paid for at our expense.
David vs. Goliath
Lots of people fear a Trump victory, and openly hate him. I have come to the conclusion that in order for them to feel that way, they also have to at some level resent or disrespect those who feel Trump is one of the few people running who can restore their voice in America. When Obama made his comment about people clinging to their guns and bibles, he was channeling the disrespect and often outright derisive hatred (or disdain) that many of his (and Hillary's) supporters have for those whose beliefs are different that their own. The irony is that these people actually believe they are the ones who are tolerant and inclusive and enlightened. They are anything but. The Republicans who dislike Trump are a mix of those who are afraid he will win and take away their hold on power via their stature within the Republican establishment, those who profit from illegal immigration - or who are beholding to campaign donors who do, those who are from the old money Republican country club crowd who think he's too crude - and who think that it would be better to lose the election than to be 'crude' like him, and those who resent that someone from outside their ranks could be successfully competing against them. There are likely lots of additional reasons, but I would wager that these cover a fair number of his opposition from within the party.
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