Posted on 04/12/2016 12:02:01 PM PDT by GilGil
Conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly says six state leaders are ousting her from the Eagle Forum organization she founded because of her support of Donald Trump, and five of them support Sen. Ted Cruz.
Schlafly released a statement Monday claiming the group is trying to take over the organization by controlling bank accounts, firing employees and hiring their own.
“I think it’s an attempt to vote me out,” Schlafly told the conservative World Net Daily. “It’s disloyal, and it’s terribly shocking, and I’m completely depressed about it.”
Among those Schlafly called out by name Monday was Cathie Adams, who served as Texas Eagle Forum president for the last 23 years.
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Damn, I must stop trying sarcasm without the /s, lol.
My point was pro-Cruzers are fast to point out that Trump was kicking an old woman out of her house while seemingly fine with pro-Cruzers kicking this old woman out.
The problem for Cruz supporters is they do not have any right to dictate or claim who is or who is not a true conservative. One cannot reason with a Cruz supporter, as they are incapable of acknowledging anything that conflicts with their own particular viewpoints.
I don’t say any such thing.
I agree with almost everything Trump says. He’s running a fairly conservative campaign. I can see exactly why conservatives could gravitate towards him.
I just don’t believe him. He has no record whatsoever on which to make his case.
Every election cycle, every member of the establishment is a conservative. I just wish they had a record the rest of the time that backed up their campaign rhetoric. Ironically, this is the same issue I have with Trump.
Trump is trying a new model which hasn’t been tested in the USA. He is attempting to gather a populist parade that will give him political backup for the things he has been promising. If Congress won’t cooperate (forget judicial issues) he won’t get anywhere.
Trump’s model MIGHT fail. However, the existing “Uniparty” system IS known to fail.
I see it as a populist Hail Mary that, if it fails, there is nothing else in the world to fall back on. Less and less bread and more and more circuses is the weather forecast in such a case.
We shouldn’t be leaning on a secular official anyhow, even if we could garner one as “good” as Ronald Reagan. Without the activity of the church in its own separate sphere, we’re only playing shuffleboard on the deck of the Titanic.
The preacher of a church that I used to go to, often said “the nut often does not fall far from the tree.”
This is a danger that needs investigation. I hope to make the distinction between a danger that needs investigation and something we can prove. We know from many other things that Obama wants to damn America, we don’t need the wrong Rev. Wright to prove it.
Thank you for exposing yourself for us as the party shill that you are and proving that you are NOT a conservative! Party 1st and country 2nd.
I’m not sure a country has to aspire to have a churchlike government in order to prosper. I believe God puts more importance on private evangelism than on that.
For a long time I was reflexively in the camp of those who wanted a churchlike government. And I was outraged when it was seen to decay. But if we are brutally honest, the concept never really worked anyhow. How did we ever get chattel slavery, is my favorite example? And hateful “liberals” even today speak in the language of religion even though they formally proposition to detest it. If the government has turned out to be a free-for-all between those who want to worship Baal and those who want to worship Jehovah, and the churches have been on the edge of their seats occupied with the spectacle, then I’d say those who want to worship Jehovah have been unwise. They have whitewashed government and dumbed down their churches.
Backing gracefully out of this situation may require a secularist set of officials who see a church that visibly deserves respect but never demands to be the basis of government.
This sounds counter intuitive, but it would solve a lot of spiritual problems including many things “liberals” have brought us.
None of this tripe has anything to do with Eagle Forum and what’s happened there. Neither Trump or Cruz camps has been involved. Thus is an internal power battle. Let it remain there to be settled.
Sorry, you are not correct. Trump has talked about defunding PP. He has committed to defunding PP during TV interviews and during meetings with voters.
He originally said he wanted to defund the abortion aspect but fund the pap tests and women’s health care part. He didn’t waffle, he just hadn’t had much actual experience with PP other than women who told him what good things it did. When he saw the videos he was outraged and disgusted as was everyone I know. It was shocking and deplorable to see what actually goes on and the callous disregaurd for the miracle of life and innocent suffering. Not to mention the effect on women and society.
I think there was a matter of a couple of weeks where he couldn’t believe that PP didn’t have some aspects that were not tainted. When he looked into it he spoke up and has remained committed. There has been an evolution since 2000 when Trump was prochoice as many men were because women told them it was none of their business. After an interview by Tim Russell where he felt pinned down to saying that if it was legal and he was pro choice he had to say yes. Then he recounts that he looked up what partial birth abortion was and decided then and there that he couldn’t step aside, that he personally thought abortion was wrong.
He made a point of giving an interview on the topic then.
This is a summation of Trump’s journey from pro-choice to pro-Life. He didn’t waffle he came into an understanding of what was entailed and stopped standing aside.
www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Donald_Trump_Abortion.htm
It’s very easy to crave caviar in a K-rations situation. But if it means chucking out your K-rations, you might not even live to have caviar later.
In any compromise between poison and food ...
One huge problem with Cruz supporters is their insistence that anyone, no matter who they are or what they have done in their lives, anyone who endorses or supports Trump is not a conservative. They claim the mantle of judge and jury and pass their judgments on who may claim the title of a conservative.
The problem for Cruz supporters is they do not have any right to dictate or claim who is or who is not a true conservative. One cannot reason with a Cruz supporter, as they are incapable of acknowledging anything that conflicts with their own particular viewpoints.
Exactly. And this is the same dirty trick the “conservative” media like National Review are using trying to silence dissent to the RINO’s running the GOP. After all the smears of Trump and his endorsers/supporters they have no moral high ground to dictate what is conservatism, IMO
Wow - so Trump supporters have gone from not wanting the support of Cruz voters, to not wanting the electoral votes from Texas at all - sounds like a winning campaign strategy to me!
My, my, you are surely the exemplar of gentlemanly Trumpean polemics.
Anyway, I think altura is correct. Trump is not dependably conservative. I think Schlafly has lost her way. She has given up on addressing the underlying moral and Constitutional problems of modern America and has gone over to Trump just because she is an anxious, elderly lady who hopes against hope that Trump is a winner (mainly relying on Trump because he says he is a winner).
This is a great sequence of posts. You folks are good, really good. Cruzlims, the tag that scored.
OK then. Dust to dust.
I’ve earned my say.
How many votes do you get?
You realize, of course, that the Wisconsin Democrats in and around the Milwaukee area counties crossed over last Tuesday to ENSURE that Trump didn't dispose of the Cruz threat?
That's because Trump is the threat, whereas Ted is not a threat. This current food fight over the unelectable Cruz is EXACTLY what the Democrats need, and want so badly, because they have a similar Bern problem on their hands.
Now - you either knew about the Wisconsin thingee, and condone the Uniparty tactic, or you didn't know, which makes you either ill-informed or naive.
Hopefully you didn't spend any of that money on Cruz, who will drag down the entire ticket into oblivion after the Media DeathStar turns him into a burnt grease stain.
You Godwined yourself. LOL! :)
You make a lot of assertions. Are you close to Phyllis Schlafly or are you simply prejudiced against the elderly?
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