Irrelevant.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
For the last three election cycles at least, the GOP has been completely sold out. Completely.
They have not stood up for America. They have not supported American workers. They have not for that matter even stood against Obama.
They are frankly USELESS.
Sit down, and shut up. We have a real candidate this time.
NR have been wearing this phrase out since their Nuke Trump issue came out.
It's ironic that NR employs Jonah Goldberg, author of 'The Tyranny Of Cliches' and that Goldberg participated in the Nuke Trump issue (as well as a mountain of anti-Trump columns prior to...he's got a very large axe to grind), because 'diverse conservatives' is an oxymoron when we are talking about an agreed-upon set of principles.
When a group of writers engage in mob behavior diversity is rather thin on the ground.
It's painfully obvious that it wasn't necessary. I read the one screed by the socially liberal Boaz of Cato. Although I have supported and valued Cato for defending the Bill of Rights, Boaz should not have pretended to defend some sort of conservative value in his poorly written piece e.g. "He [Trump] doesn't talk about policy or working with Congress."
First, that is wrong, Trump has an entire website filled with specific policy. Second, Congress will work with him, at least the ones who actually represent the American people.
I have to explain as usual that I know Trump is not that conservative. Duh. What he promises to do is stop cultural rot. Curtail big government. Lower corporate taxes and regulation to make America great. That's enough for me.
Author is a tool.
I call: BS on this CYA.
Just a few years ago when I met Katie Pavlich she was still a student at Arizona State. Now she is an arbiter of who is, and who is not a conservative? I would laugh it it wasn’t so serious. It’s nice that her great uncle was friends with William F. Buckley. Well Rich Lowry couldn’t shine Bill’s shoes. He would have opposed Pau Ryan as Speaker. Lowry’s NRO endorsed him and celebrated it just two months ago. NRO has systematically driven out their best conservative writers because they aren’t PC enough for the weasel Lowry. NRO is a shell of what it once was. Pity.
A vast majority of my friends and family really think Trump is a mean spirited bully.
That is the truth.
I like most of what he says, but I’ve been fooled before and don’t trust him. Trump loves America but Trump is for Trump first and foremost. I’d vote for him over any rat, 10 times out of 10.
Trump needs to soften up on fellow republican candidates and hammer away at the rats and our corrupt government if he wants to make gains nationally.
Pavlich has never been considered conservative in any sense of the word.
Townhall has become an elitist irrelevant rag.
National Review needs to be placed in the humor section of the bookstore.
Remember when they wrote 22 articles against Obama?
Me neither.
Katie, just shut up. Stop digging the hole, bless yer heart. We just don’t care what you or any other “editorial writers” and TV pundits have to say.
Where was your 22-person diatribe when we got railroaded into Dole? McCain? Mittens? When Congress fully funded obama’s Cloward-Pivens spending spree 2 weeks after being sent to DC to make it STOP?
It’s the UniParty, hon’. It’s too late to sweet-talk us back. Abused Spouse Syndrome is real. Deal with it.
You may have missed my note to you and your esteemed colleagues yesterday so I’ll include it here. I think I made my point in a little nicer language, just in case my harshness has upset you. No hard feelings, dear.
Dearest “Against Trump” authors (National Review):
Glenn Beck, David Boaz, Brent Bozell, Mona Charen, Ben Domenech, Erick Erickson, Steven Hayward, Mark Helprin, Bill Kristol, Yuval Levin, Dana Loesch, Andrew McCarthy, David McIntosh, Michael Medved, Edwin Meese, Russell Moore, Michael Muskasey, Katie Pavlich, John Podhoretz, RR Remo, Thomas Sowell, and Cal Thomas:
Hey, there! From the bottommost reaches of my little pea-pickin’ heart, this country girl out here in flyover country wants to THANK YOU for your National Review article on Donald J. Trump! I represent this vast expanse of Americana out here — more commonly known to YOU as “The-Land-of-the-Ignoramus-Dumbazzes” — and we just cannot thank you enough. How thoughtful of you, bless yer hearts.
Please... Write more about The Donald in your next issue. Your lovely pontifications and verbal works of eloquence are very helpful to us dumbazzes as we try to make important voting decisions. Many of us have been conflicted about Donald — it’s been so hard to figure out if he’s one of “You, The Establishment,” or one of “We, The People.”
Not any more! You are just sooooo inspiring. More! More!
Now pardon me while I go brew up some sweet tea and sit down to watch the bug zapper.
Later, Gators!
Nits
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Townhall is trying to protect itself from onslaughts by upset Trump supporters, but I doubt it will help. Once they intuit that the author believes it is legitimate to express reservations about Trump, their brains will explode.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaa!
What motivates me is really quite simple: trolling the elites. The smug faced A-holes that shoved Bush on us in 2000, the compromisers, the nannies, the school marms, the professional victims, etc. THEY are the ones that ruined the "brand".
So Trump is just my way of giving the finger to the elites, the pundits, and yes, the dewy eyed true believers that still have hope in our system. They can all stuff it.