Posted on 01/26/2016 4:58:34 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
I hear public figures in the conservative movement - including those who don't support Trump - say the following thing all the time: "The Establishment caused Trump." This is a ridiculous non sequitur and I wish people would quit saying it. It isn't true, and it gives people an excuse to support a man who represents all the worst abuses of the Establishment.
Let me state this as simply as I can: Mitch McConnell's liberalism is not a good excuse to vote for a liberal. Now let me break it down a little further.
I completely get the anger over the perfidy and spinelessness of Republicans in Congress. But the problem with Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, et al is not that they weren't insulting enough, or that they weren't juvenile enough, or that they didn't have half a dead fox on their forehead.
The problem was that they were liberal. Or more specifically, that their conservatism did not stand up to opposition. More specifically, the argument is that they used their offices to enrich the pocketbooks of themselves and their friends, and protected their own interests ahead of those of the country...
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
By what right do other folks think they should tell me who to vote for and who not to vote for.
The man just took on the Press, that takes balls. My Guess, Cruz will side with Fox News. Easy choice, the man or the wimp.
I’m so tired of getting lectured by the G## D### media!
This is what we have to ask the Trump bashers : If Trump was such a Leftist , why are the Dims and Libs so panicked and full of hatred towards Trump ? Why isn’t he running in the Dim primary ? They can’t answer those questions ...
So your basis for support is wholly based on the fact that Trump has never done something? There should be hundreds of millions that meet your criteria.
Sick and tired of politics as usual.
This is refreshing for me. How worse would he be than anything the ruling elite wants??????????
They want her evilness before Trump. Her emails sold out our country and for sure assets are dead from them. She has been involved un corruption for decades...heck all her life and they want to back her????????????
I agree with you overall, but...
Helped?
They planted it.
Watered it.
Sat on it to keep it warm.
Cut everything within 30 feet of it.
Threatened people.
Threw tantrums.
Slanderers people.
Joined democrats to they and destroy us
Yeah, they helped alright.
Agree
More Redstate garbage ? Redstate has been thoroughly discredited , please keep posting their prop .. it only makes Trump stronger
They joined democrats to destroy us.
What’s it like being a looser. Do you realize that by your constant stupid ramblings, you are turning off people who probably hold Cruz in the top two? What do you expect to gain?
Cruz should quit pussyfooting around and find some way to connect with the voters. Forget the tit for tat with Trump. That’s a loser from day one. Forget the politic’n and the nitty gritty policy wonk’n. It’s not even about the constitution or conservatism, per se. The majority of the people could care less about who is the most conservative or the more holy. It’s about the people, stupid. It’s about America. It’s about making their lives better and opportunity for their children. Offer a bold solution for restoring America to her former greatness. The people are starving for a pro-America LEADER, not a politician. BOLD STROKES!!
But the “followers” on the Cruz side, will back the media, the establishment, and the status quo.
That’s who they are, and that’s why they can’t understand us. It’s also why they do everything they can to get us back on the plantation.
Back when this nation started, they would be Tories.
Trump has never occupied a position in government or have been part of a political class who has actively, even eagerly at times, completely joined in with the opposition's agenda that has America teetering on 3rd-world status.
Someone need to sell urinal cakes with their logo so I can literally piss on Red State
Ok, I wont say the establishment caused Trump.
I will say:
The establishment caused Trump, D*head.
What is Red State’s problem with Donald Trump? Romney was good enough for them, fat Christie and Jeb and Rick Perry, too - are they really that mad over immigration?
So the establishment made you all want to vote for a leftist crony capitalist who has spent his entire adult life lining the pockets of corrupt politicians and praising the worst enemies of conservatism. Got it.
I certainly hope you remember that, come Election 2016.
I’m sure Leon from RedState has all our best interests in mind. /sarc
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