The Conservative Treehouse has indeed done some absolutely fantastic investigative reporting... before it went on it's current Trump uber alles! Crank-fest.
It has lost it's ability to examine facts objectively, and it has lately endeavored to skew facts and opinion to suit it's personal preferences.
It is my hope that once the primary is over, (and congratulations to Mr. Trump if he wins) that "Sundance" will go back to being sane, rather than the fanatic he currently appears to be.
Whatever has happened to him, also appears to have happened to Jim Hoft of "Gateway Pundit." He too seems to have become a bit of a loon obsessed with getting Trump to win the nomination.
I fully appreciate why people want to support Trump. He has said and proposed some very good things, and I hope the good things he has said are made into a reality, but anyone who just embraces him wholly on the basis of what he is currently saying while ignoring all of his past history as a Liberal Democrat from New York, is being naive to a level that I regard as foolish.
I've been there with George HW Bush. People told me over and over again that he was a "conservative" and that he would promote a "conservative agenda", and then he didn't.
Call me out of touch, but I sort of follow the line of thinking that a person who will enact conservative policy is one that has held these views since before they were popular. Someone who has defended these views in the past. Not someone who is a recent convert and has a tendency to change their opinion on a dime.
The current fanaticism on display from Sundance and Jim Hoft just puts me off. One would think rational people would be more wary.
Yes, Trump is not a Conservative. But he is a patriot who loves his country and will do everything in his power to try and save her from total destruction, for the sake of his children and grandchildren. That’s good enough for me and it should be good enough, at this point in our history, for any patriot who loves America! Period...end of story.
Many people, including me, have been desperate for a true conservative, Christian leader for years. We fell for Cruz just because he talks the talk.
Many, many of us have concluded that the real Cruz is a lot less than the idealized Cruz we were supporting. He talks the talk, but does not walk the walk. We wanted it to be real so badly that it was painful to let go.
I think that is what a lot of Cruz supporters are wrestling with today.
I hear what you are saying. And having been betrayed in the past by noodleback politicians in the GOP, I keep a keen eye on ANY candidate calling himself “conservative”. I think if Trump wins he will feel like he owes a lot to the people that brought him to that point. I hope that is true, because if it isn’t, he’ll find out very quickly that those who raised him up can bring him down, so fast his head will spin.
What do you think?
>>> I’ve been there with George HW Bush. People told me over and over again that he was a “conservative” and that he would promote a “conservative agenda”, and then he didn’t
I have no illusions that Trump is an ideological conservative. But at this time, I still support him 100%. There is a major national realignment happening. The labels liberal and conservative are taking on less meaning, while nationalist vs. globalist is dominating the debate.
Trump is the only nationalist in the mix, and the consensus among many conservatives (at least on this site) is that if the borders and immigration and trade can’t be fixed, then all is lost. Do I expect Trump to be a small government conservative? Absolutely not... but then again, I don’t trust Cruz in that regard as far as I can spit after his mask came off in recent months. But Trump loves America and what we used to call the American Way, I think most would agree. The same cannot be said of the current Resident.
DL, do you agree that prolific readers develop the ability to tap into the psychological bent of a person by reading the things they write? I do believe that because I find that I am able to get the “core” of a person by reading the things they have written (if indeed they have written anything).
For me beginning this election cycle began with a high opinion of Cruz due to his reported accomplishments and his filibuster against obamacare. So I bought his book, “A Time for Truth” (a telling title considering his current nickname). Reading his story about himself I found that he is self-consumed, a trait that is often attached more to Trump. His tome was boring to the point of tears. I gave up on page 205. I couldn’t read another report of how he “rescued” some very important person.
Then Trump came along with a book that he had recently written, “Crippled America”. So I bought it. I couldn’t put it down and there were very few first person sentences in that book. It is simply an outline of what is wrong with our country and what he proposes to do to fix it. He uses the word “We” a lot. I was hearing that Trump used to be a liberal Democrat, and I heard him talking about his best seller, “The Art of the Deal”, so I sent for that book too. He wrote it in 1987. Reading it you would think he wrote it last month. He does have a section about his early life, but strangely the focus was on what he did with his father, where he worked, etc. His later chapters cover his ability to get things done and how he used that ability to build his “business”. I don’t see a self-possessed person in his books. I see a man who loves his work and the country that provided him with the opportunity to accomplish his goals. Yes, he has a LOT of pride in his ability and he is prone to braggadocio, but not narcissistic. That is my take on both men who aspire to the presidency if it’s worth anything JMHO.