A President Trump would force these "I play a conservative on TV" guys to put their votes where their mouths are.
So would I.
The Cruz folks will ignore this thread like a contageous terminal disease : )
Oh my!
This isn’t going to sit well with the Saint Cruz sect.
Can we get this thread removed in the interest of their mental health? /s
I’m tempted to go the National Review Online and troll this bit of news!!! I find the purer-than-thou, anti-Trump conservatives very amusing. Granted, a conservative argument can be made about Trump, but the “intellectuals” at NRO are so vitriolic they come across as ridiculous.
That has been my observation of Trump supporters that I interact with.
The guy on Rush was just saying Trump needs to do things to get conservative’s onboard...
Yeah, you know what’s really galling me?
The biggest nevertrumpers or those asking for conservative assurances from Trump are: Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney??
To quote Donald: Give Me A Break!
How are they determining “conservative”?
Self-identified as “conservative”?
Or are there a list of issues, e.g.: taxation, social issues (pro-life, freedom of religion, no gay perverts in bathrooms, right to not celebrate gay “marriages”), states rights issues, liberty-related issues?
For example, I would consider free-trade a conservative value (assuming the trade is truly free and not protectionist on the other side as is the case with China), etc.
Similarly, protectionism (of certain politically connected industries) is typically a liberal faux populist response to protect big labor and ultra-rich special interests (e.g., steel back in the days of Carnegie).
In short, kind of meaningless, unless one defines “conservative”
I noticed today that most of the traditional “Conservative media” sites like HotAir, Twitchy et al are still clinging to the anti-Trump narrative.
It’s almost as if they’re all owned by Mitt Romney or something. Weird.
And as long as he governs that way, I am fine with it. What concerns me is that I have seen and heard a whole lot of NY liberal out of Trump in the past. IOW, as long as Trump remains anti-GOPe, and stays conservative, I can hold my nose over his personality traits and support him in the General.
However, start to compromise or negotiate away from the conservative positions, then depending how far towards the middle he moves, will determine if I vote for him in the general.
They are just finding out that Conservatism does not work for conservatives. But, only for the Chamber of Commerce and their ilk.
or Trump-hating FReepers?
and I would say that the Trump supporters are far more constitutional founding fathers conservative ...then all these other fakes
OAN/Gravis Poll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Y7cA8w6Hk
Trump is more conservative than the average GOP candidate but that’s not saying much.
Been saying this since September, all one has to do is read his policy objectives. Only anti-conservatives oppose Trump, including the Cruz cult.