Posted on 05/09/2016 8:46:48 PM PDT by Innovative
"I have a little announcement to make ... I'm voting for Hillary. I am endorsing Hillary," noted conservative author P.J. O'Rourke said on NPR's Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me. The episode aired over the weekend.
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Oh, these principled writers from American Spectator, National Review and the like. “Trump is awful. I don’t believe he’s a conservative. He might not be a conservative.”
Therefore.....(brain gears whirring)....I’m voting for HILLARY THE KNOWN CONSERVATIVE!
If the Bushes, the Clintons, the Romneys, and the O’Rourkes of the world don’t convince us that the system is RIGGED, then nothing will
I have one hope for a Trump candidacy, that he gets the Gub'ment to build the wall and in the process he destroys the Republican Party and burns it to the ground then maybe we can get a Conservative party that will actually govern as Conservatives.
Man, we’re going to need a big ass database to keep track of them all, before this is all over.
I was talking with friends about Trump, and how his delivery is obviously "New York" and brusque. My friend noted that "the Jew is strong in him", knowing he is not Jewish, but merely a product of his environment.
Yes, indeed.
I don’t understand this statement:
“That Rah Rah shit got us McLame and Mittens etc.”
A primary process got us McCain and Romney.
A Hillary vs Trump matchup has nothing to do with a primary.
Just to set the record straight, I am not ‘rah-rah’ over Trump. I voted in the Kansas Primary for Ted Cruz, IMHO the most conservative candidate. But that’s over and done with. Now its a two way race.
And if you vote for Hillary, or even stay home, you are contributing to a Hillary presidency, and everything that comes with it.
Mr. O’Rourke is certainly free to vote for whomever he wants...but he cannot vote for Hillary, and call himself a conservative, without well deserved ridicule. ANYBODY who vote for Hillary, no matter how much he professes to dislike her, is a hardcore leftist at his core.
I didn’t know he was kicking around Ms. O’Donnell.
I felt the same way. I thought she was refreshing.
Maybe she shouldn’t have declared she wasn’t a witch but it was a lot better than being one, which happens so frequently on the Left.
Miller gave up his radio show well over a year ago. Now I think he performs a bit on his own and also has the great gig on O’Reilly’s tv show and on the O’Reilly tours.
I know that Bill O’ isn’t so popular among a large number of Freepers but Miller is stalwart on that show...he doesn’t demur or deflect or dodge. If someone is b.s.ing, even O’Reilly, Miller brings in the shovel.
And that right there is how we got McLame and Mittens.
Voting for an "R"... We keep voting "R" and nothing changes. This time the "R"s running the party didn't get what they wanted and we got Trump. Like I say I hope he burns the "R" down to the ground and sends the "R"s currently running the party into permanent exile.
If you keep getting on your knees to service the schmuck who the "R"s throw out there as their puppet then nothing changes. I say if you don't like the person that gets the "R" nom then don't vote for 'em. I regret every vote I cast for a Presidential "R" since Reagan. I won't do it anymore. I've done my time on my knees. I am voting for Trump for one purpose only. I hope he destroys the "R" once and for all!
I liked her but the media and Karl Rove destroyed her. Mark Levin treated her with respect, I remember. I didn’t know he had given up his show. I sensed he was bored with it.
“And that right there is how we got McLame and Mittens.”
I still don’t understand this statement. Slavishly voting for an ‘R’ didn’t get us either one of them. The primary process (loaded with other ‘R’s as alternatives got us those two).
But we’re past that point. There are only two choices. You’re either with Hillary or against her. I’m against her.
And he must support an invasion by illegal aliens and Sharia law because that is what we also will get more of.
Trump bashing will get worse, from the progs and the fifth columnists. Those once thought of as “conservative” but now shown to be opportunistic leaches.
Filling empty news cycles with 'endorsement' crud, because Cruz quit, and they (MSM) are now just simply trying to ignore Bernie, so Cankles can pivot (and fall on her fat azz)...
I posted this to the Texas board earlier, but I think it needs to be said here as well.
O’Rourke has built a career out of skewering some career politicians in DC for bacchanalian conduct and failure to do what the people want. A nice long career, in which he has developed many sources and made sure he would get invited to many social functions. So much so that he actually lives in DC part time... and spends the rest of his time in a liberal, backwater, ‘nothing ever changes’ kind of town in Massachusetts by the name of Sharon. He also writes all of his work on an ancient IBM Selectric typewriter, claiming that a computer would be too distracting for his short attention span.
Keep all these facts in mind for a moment, then add this to the list - the rest of his statement about Hillary. “She’s wrong about absolutely everything—but she’s wrong within normal parameters.”
This, friends, is a man deathly afraid of disruptive innovation and improvement, of paradigm shifts, of real fundamental change. He’s afraid of what will happen to his career in what would likely be a huge Trump-driven housecleaning. He’s afraid of politicians actually starting to do the jobs they were elected to do. He’s afraid of no longer having a purpose in DC. He’s afraid of having to live in Sharon all the time (which, okay, is probably something a rational person should be afraid of).
This is a man so scared of change that he will willingly sell his soul to Satan in order to keep things the same, even though the status quo is hellish and the temperature’s rising.
If he backs Clinton, he is not a Conservative. And has never been. And this probably his first rodeo backing Clinton or Obama. This is just the first time he was honest about it. Previously he did it in secret.
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