Why I Can’t Learn to Love Donald Trump (Ross Douthat)

New York Times ^ | February 12, 2016 | Ross Douthat

[Georgia Girl 2]

Douthat works for the NY Slimes. He was never going to love Trump or any other GOP candidate. This is wasted posting.

[DesertRhino]

So which one will ACTUALLY build a decent border that is enforced? Trump who enjoys making things? Or the others who love the brown horde marching in by the millions? Cruz you say?

I say Teddy Bears and Soccer ball welcomes.

[AuntB]

Anyone who listens to Ted in this interview LAST month, can see he has NO INTENTION of deporting any illegal aliens unless they happen to be caught by ICE during their routine (LOL) duties. The lawyereeze is so thick you can barely wade through it! There is a reason he is financed so heavily by the open border cartel.

ttp://www.cnn.com/2016/01/10/politics/ted-cruz-immigration-deportation-guns-terrorism/

[DesertRhino]

You got that right. And without shutting off the flood, nothing else matters. It is a one issue election. It isn’t conservative vs liberal even.
It nationalism vs globalism.

Much of what we are being told is conservative is neocon globalist BS. They hate an America that is intact and would love open borders.
Cruz wife was even on a committee that wants complete abolition of the Mexican and Canadian borders. He is a NWO type bought and owned by GS.

[AuntB]

Agreed!

[Chainmail]

Then Reagan didn’t run with people the rest of us have. You ought to hear the language they use in Boot Camp!

BTW, Reagan was wonderful but not perfect: see Iran-Contra and the Beirut Bombings.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Article]
....Trumpian four years would almost certainly involve a significant degradation of the unwritten restraints on presidential conduct, an acceleration of royalist tendencies that may be built into our system but still deserve to be slowed down, and a blurring of reality-TV and political culture that takes us several leagues further along the road to President Camacho.

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Whether or not one is a Trump fan, one thing should be obvious: Ross Douthat has been reading, and cribbing from, Free Republic.

[lentulusgracchus]

You're one of the few people who even bother anymore to take on these Old Grey Whore prolefeed artists about the lies, the half-truths, and the flaming double standards that ooze from their pens.

Other people are getting jaded and just plain sick of it.

[lentulusgracchus]

He is a NWO type bought and owned by GS.

His wife works there, Cruz doesn't. He isn't "owned" by Goldman in any sense. It's more troubling that the Chamber of Commerce lobbyist Lycan has been hanging around Cruz's campaign. That and

• His vagueness on the status of in-country illegals
  
• His tax proposals to replace the corporate income tax, which sound suspiciously like a VAT or NRST (a business wish-list item since the Reagan Administration), and
  
• His wife's unrepudiated work for the CFR/NWO/SPP, from which Cruz still needs explicitly to distance himself.

He needs to clarify all these points and clarify his previous positions on e.g. TPP and other transnational "agreements" and their spurious-treaty treatment by Obama and other presidents.

It would help if he would bring up LOST, ICC, and other hateful, sovereignty-diminishing treaties inked by Slick Willie and Obama (Dubya creditably denounced ICC, but some international "authorities" have claimed that he could not sign a signed instrument, and that America shall be forever subservient to ICC's terms) for the quick Senate demise they so thoroughly deserve.