Posted on 03/20/2016 6:56:30 PM PDT by EveningStar
Yep. That’s him. He just piped in from his cubicle at the National Review. Trying stay relevant. Failing miserably,
WTH? Trump supporters want to go out and start slitting throats of non-supporters now?
Look around you! You're not the majority, you're the minority, a plurality at best; we're not sitting here with 20% of the vote or something and telling you you can't have your guy!
Knock off the "black flag" crap. We aren't Al Q'aeda in here.
HLM is/was known for his erudite hyperbole. The quote dates from 1919.
He would enjoy commenting on our more sensitive times.
So, the first thing you do is to do an irrelevant, ad-hominem attach? Nice move, worthy of a Alinskyite.
IF this goes to the Convention, without Trump getting the needed delegates, one of two things will happen. One, Trump will eventually get the nomination. Two, he won’t. It all depends on whether he can really make a Great Deal. He says he can do that with China, Mexico, Japan, Democrats in Congress, Putin, Paul Ryan and everyone else. If he can’t make the deals necessary to win, then he shouldn’t get the nomination and should go home.
The GOP would help Trump get the nomination if he were the best candidate to beat Hillary. He isn’t. Trump is a turnoff to many conservatives and moderate Republicans. He would lose the general election against Hillary or Biden.
Lighten up. It is obvious you are ignorant of HL Menken and his writing style. It is pure vitriolic humor in the vein of Mark Twain.
“The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” ― H.L. Mencken
Dope, please just go away and find some people who care what you have to say.
So what are the establishment folks gonna do when Cruz throws his delegates to Trump on the first ballot to get him WAY over the top?
Trump/Cruz = establishment...on both sides...LOSE!
Oh but it just fine with Fund if the GOPE toadys on the Rule Committee change the Rules the other way?
Cat’s out of the bag. They are playing dirty pool ...
Top conservatives gather to plot third party run against Trump
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3409672/posts
Conspirators outed ...
54 Private Jets at Meeting to Stop Trump
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407016/posts?page=61#61
[Link list on post 61]
Poll: 25 percent of federal employees would quit under Trump presidency
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3391513/posts
[Such as IRS workers who targeted the Tea Party? Let’s cross our fingers!]
Donald Trump’s 2016 NRO Critics Were President Obama’s 2009 Fan-Boys
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3387252/posts
It’s fine to start threads like this. We need to record who the creeps are.
Thank you.
Funny, that was my line.
It is obvious you are ignorant of HL Menken and his writing style.
No, I'm quite familiar with H. L. Mencken. He was never at a loss for words, but some of his quotations are as appropriate to a contentious and loaded conversation about political deserts and strategies for unification as a paragraph about genitourinary diseases wedged into a Joel Osteen homily.
It is pure vitriolic humor in the vein of Mark Twain.
It is playing a quotation from Grieg or Bartok in the middle of the national anthem. Thanks, no thanks. Can you spell, "discordant and unhelpful"? How about "obnoxious and witlessly offensive"? Philip Wylie had a lot to say about women and their manners; do you really want to quote him on "Momism" at a wedding reception?
The delegates will be looking at more than proximity to the finish line after the first ballot. They could just as easily nominate Jeb Bush as Donald Trump.
Obama used some of his "honeymoon" goodwill to attack people early and do as much damage as possible, as fast as possible.
What is surprising to me is that, in 2009, even breathing in the fumes of postinaugural goodwill, anyone who knew anything about Obola would have anything good to say about him -- and never mind Brooksie's pants-crease fetish. There was too much else that was known about Obama that was toxic.
“The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.”“The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” ― H.L. Mencken
Even more Mencken:
(The democrat's) distinguishing mark is the fact that he always attacks his opponents, not only with all arms, but with snorts and objugations---that he is always filled with moral indignation---that he is incapable of imagining honour in an antagonist, and hence incapable of honour himself.
I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic and hence incomprably amusing. Does it exalt dunderheads, cowards, trimmers, frauds, cads? Then the pain of seeing them go up is balanced and obliterated by the joy of seeing them come down.
[V]otes are collared under democracy not by talking sense but by talking nonsense, and [candidates] will apply themselves to the job with a hearty yo-heave-ho. Most of them, before the uproar is over, will actually convince themselves. The winner will be whoever promises the most with the least probability of delivering anything.
The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.
The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
And Johnn Fund is NRO ...
Donald Trump’s 2016 NRO Critics Were President Obama’s 2009 Fan-Boys
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3387252/posts
The NRO has been trying to ‘hitlerize’ Trump, which keeps getting more laughable than ever. And it was orchestrated by the Clintons and Soros
How Clintons [and Soros] are behind the Trump KKK/Nazi Smear Campaign
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3406497/posts
‘ ... The [NYT] article reported that Bill Clinton and others argued against those inclined to underestimate Trump ‘that Mr. Trump clearly had a keen sense of the electorate’s mood and that only a concerted campaign portraying him as dangerous and bigoted would win what both Clintons believe will be a close November election ...’
Anti-Defamation League
‘On February 25, the Anti-Defamation League issued a press release in which ADL National Chair Marvin D. Nathan and ADL CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt called upon Trump ‘to distance himself from white nationalist and former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke, as well as other white supremacists, and publicly condemn their racism’.’
On March 7, Greenblatt’s ADL predecessor Abraham Foxman renewed the attack on Trump, telling Times of Israel reporter Eric Cortellessa that Trump was deliberately inviting his audience to make a ‘fascist gesture’ by raising their hands to pledge to vote for him.
[How the Anti Defamation League is now Clintonista and Soros]
Greenblatt, who recently replaced Abraham Foxman at the ADL’s helm, had previously been described in 2014 by Daniel Greenfield of the David Horowitz Freedom Center as ‘a Clinton official who bummed around NGOs during the Bush years and then became Obama’s director of the White House’s Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation’. Greenfield’s article exposed Greenblatt’s association with the Aspen Institute, funded by former Nazi collaborator George Soros, who had previously been condemned as a bigot by the ADL. In September 2015, Greenblatt had painted Ben Carson as a bigot, saying, ‘Dr. Ben Carson’s statement that a Muslim American should not serve as president is deeply offensive, un-American and contrary to the Constitution.’ In December 2015, after several months of the ADL sparring with Carson, Greenfeld had issued a press release condemning Trump’s call to seal the border against Muslims.
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