I’m voting for Trump to break up the Republican party. Bulldoze so we can start over.
They had BOTH houses of Congress and did nothing to stop Obama. NOTHING.
Scamnesty, open borders, refugees by the hundreds of thousands invading our countries, ObamaScam skyrocketing healthcare costs.
Screw the GOPe. Time for them ALL to be tossed out of office.
They are the modern Vichy backing our destruction.
TRUMP is the hammer to do it.
Trump ‘16!
More whining from cucks like Ben ((((Shapiro)))).
Pro-conservative does not mean pro-American. Most of these so called conservatives are Globalists first. They always want to ignore that little fact.
Donald Trump will change everything.
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He's said that he's the establishment's worst nightmare. He says he's too rich too be bought, too independent to care about what his enemies say, too powerful to be stopped. He'll stand up for the American people by standing against the powers-that-be.
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Then he turns around and says he'll make deals. “I think the [establishment is] warming up,” Trump said this week.
Yep, the deal making anti-establishment figure who the establishment likes because he will work with them.
Trump is everything to everyone.
Just like he will deport all illegals and just bring back the non-criminals, leaving the criminals behind.
Has all the bases covered.
Conservative doesn’t mean what I think it does either. These days it means open borders Mexicans and Moslems flood right on in. Too big to fail and TPP.
“And another egomaniac without Constitutional strictures is the last thing we need.”
Actually, BUSH IS THE LAST THING WE NEED.
NAILED IT.
Trump either doesn’t know or doesn’t care what the Constitution says. That’s made crystal clear whenever he talks too long about what he plans to do.
There’s nothing remotely conservative about that.
Sometimes, the enemy of my enemy is just the enemy of my enemy.
Phil Gramm was a particularly egregious example. Trent Lott is another example, but you couldn't throw a rock in Washington without hitting one of them.
The current wisdom is that just about anybody who's anybody in DC is Establishment and not truly conservative, but through them all out and the replacements will eventually end up the same way.
I'm not counseling cynicism or despair, just a recognition that policies that are presented as conservative and supported by elected conservatives aren't necessarily the best for the country.
You can certainly argue that open borders isn't really a conservative policy, but so many elected officials with an R after their name and so many conservative think-tankers and opiners have supported such policies that by this point the argument has to be about whether open borders are good for the country and not over whether you can label such policies as "conservative."
Is he even really anti-Establishment though? His past conduct belies his words, and THAT is the best predictor of future behavior. We all want him to break things when he goes to Washington. Yet there is nothing but his campaign rhetoric to indicate he will not simply embrace the Establishment as he always has. I fear that we are finally getting rid of one egotistical, self-absorbed, bombastic leftist to put in another egotistical, self-absorbed, bombastic leftist.
Look, we all know that Washington is Perk City. It is now designed stroke egos and perpetuate big government. That corrupting influence can only be resisted by a consistently principled ideologue, and Trump is none of those things. We want somebody to break the Republicrat Establishment, but Trump has only displayed the kind of character that will break our hearts and ruin this nation even more.
Only one candidate has actually stood up to the Establishment— note they hate him, and are embracing Trump now. There’s a reason.
Finally, if Trump’s ego or fear is such that he cannot stand up to Megan Kelly questioning his bona fide conservative values tonight, then how can anyone in their right mind believe he will stand up to anyone in Congress, much less Iran, Russia, etc., and push a conservative agenda?
Let no one say they weren’t warned not be naive about this man.
Pajama boy Ben, good little Salem Radio and Conservative Review soldier, still beating his drum against Trump.
What will all of these self-important pundits do if their worst nightmare happens, and the great unwashed mass of nativist xenophobe voters elect Trump?
Anti-establishment might just do for a start, given the corrupt, feckless, flaccid, mendacious, complacent, and lame state to which the establishment has sunk.
Good article.
All you have to do is look at how Trump deals with Fox News to realize that Trump does things his way. He either gets a “good deal” for the American people or he walks. BTW you left out of your Trump quote there is said re the establishment “I’m not sure this is a good thing”. He wasn’t happy that about getting all those calls.
While I'm concerned about Trump's statements above that he'd "make deals" .... here's the questions I keep asking myself:
Would Donald Trump make worse deals than the Republican Establishment and the Republican Party hacks infesting Washington DC have made in the past?
I think clearly the answer to that question is a resounding NO! The Republican Party led by Boehner/McConnell/Ryan and now Ryan/McConnell have simply caved and given Obama everything he's wanted. (The sole exception is voting against Obamacare, and even then the GOP-E seemed to make damn' sure it came to the floor in the House and Senate for a vote, a vote they knew they'd lose!)
Would Donald Trump have negotiated TPP in its current form? I think the answer to that question is a resounding NO! as well. To think how the GOP-E rolled over and ceded their Constitutional responsibilities and let Obama have his way with them just sickens me to my stomach. They did EVERYTHING they could to simply give Obama the worst trade deal ever made, and inflict that on America.
Would Donald Trump make a worse deal than Paul Ryan did in the House of Representatives giving Obama every last penny he wanted (and more!) in the last appropriation extension which included full funding for Planned Parenthood?
I don't know about this one. Trump may have negotiated a harder bargain on the appropriation extension and the budget overall, but fully funding PP? I don't know. His history on abortion indicates he'd fund PP, his "conversion" on the issue says he wouldn't. I simply don't know here. To fully know I'd have to question his heart and I'm in no position to do that.
If you can answer these three questions, and you start getting to the answer of what kind of President Donald Trump would be.