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In Praise of Trump
Townhall.com ^ | January 30, 2016 | George Mano

Posted on 01/30/2016 12:36:45 PM PST by Kaslin

It has been fashionable the last two weeks to pen articles attacking Donald Trump, the front-runner in the race for the Republican Party nomination for President. "He's not a true conservative." "He's not Ronald Reagan," they said. The jury's still out on whether or not he's a true conservative, but we can agree that he is not Ronald Reagan.

I would say he is more like Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln had been elected to Congress as a member of the Whig Party, but he parted company with the Whigs and joined the Republicans, when the Whig leaders wouldn't take a stand on the biggest issue of the day--slavery. The country's whole future hung on the issue of slavery. Lincoln was against it, but the Whigs didn't want to ruffle the feathers of pro-slavery voters. Lincoln became President, won the Civil War, and ended that barbaric practice. The Whig Party disappeared from the national stage and became a paragraph in history books. You can almost hear the Whig poobahs saying about Lincoln, "He's not a true conservative. He flip-flopped on the tariff issue." Small minds, small issues.

Similarly, Donald Trump took a stand on the big issue of our day--immigration--coming out strongly in favor of securing the border and deporting illegal aliens, while the Republican leadership and the other candidates in the race for President (with maybe only one exception) talked about "immigration reform." They don't want to ruffle the feathers of "Latino voters;" while Trump wants to save America. Immediately, Trump jolted into the lead in the race and has stayed there ever since, in spite of being rude, bombastic, and obnoxious. By contrast, Marco Rubio, arguably the most likable guy in the pack, will never rise much above 15% in the polls because he is on the wrong side of this issue. Unless Rubio comes out and says, "to hell with the so-called Latino vote, I'm gonna deport every last one of the illegal aliens," he will stay in the pack fighting for second or third place twenty points behind Trump.

The media pundits don't get it, though. They offer up all kinds of explanations for Trump's success that have nothing to do with the issue of immigration: It's his simple sentences. It's his rudeness and bruskness. It's his hair. He's an outsider. The people who support him are stupid (40% of Republicans!).

Some critics argue that Trump was a liberal Democrat until recently and we cannot trust him to keep any of his promises on immigration, or anything else. The answer to that is that lots of Republicans were elected as Tea Party candidates a few years ago, yet they ended up supporting the big-government-open-borders policies of the Obama administration once they got into office. Why should we trust anyone? Maybe all of the candidates are lying. In which case, Trump is no better or worse than the others. But, if he is telling the truth and he ends up keeping his promises, since he is the only one with a plan to reverse the illegal immigration problem, shouldn't we put our support behind him?

Going back to the Ronald Reagan comparison, Mark Steyn noted rightly that Reagan could not get elected governor of California today. The demographics have changed so much that the state is now solidly left. America is going in the same direction. With more and more people coming into the country with different ideas about work, liberty, the rule of law, morality--it will be hard to elect anyone who is not pandering to them, promising more subsidies, more government, more corruption.

With this election the country stands at a crossroads--do we keep going in the same direction--the one leading over the cliff--or do we change direction? Many people believe Trump will lead the country in the right direction. Maybe he will, maybe he won't. But it is certain that most of the other candidates will not.


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1 posted on 01/30/2016 12:36:45 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Look at the hair.

With Bloody Kelly’s new hair-do they could be twins.


2 posted on 01/30/2016 12:38:58 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Kaslin
The jury's still out on whether or not he's a true conservative

Not for anyone paying attention.

3 posted on 01/30/2016 12:39:10 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Kaslin

As far as this article, it’s pretty good. I agree.

Problem is, it’s most likely Trump will do the opposite of what he is saying.


4 posted on 01/30/2016 12:40:26 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Kaslin

someone must not have read him the letter where Lincoln basically said he was just dandy with slavery

nope, go search for it yourself


5 posted on 01/30/2016 12:42:31 PM PST by dp0622
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To: bajabaja; PJBankard; Kudsman; HarleyLady27; Jane Long; Reno89519; MinuteGal; V K Lee; RitaOK; ...

Donald Trump: Make America Great Again!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FJ6WYtLgbo

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3388369/posts


6 posted on 01/30/2016 12:42:33 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel ("God only is my Rock and my Salvation; He is my Defence." (Psa 62:2))
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To: Republican Wildcat
Yeah right. Not>
7 posted on 01/30/2016 12:43:04 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin

Here’s a writer that gets it.


8 posted on 01/30/2016 12:45:32 PM PST by Pelham (Barack Obama, loyal son of Islam and Alinsky)
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To: ifinnegan

if you check out Trump’s 40 year career, he always does what he says he will.


9 posted on 01/30/2016 12:47:55 PM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: Kaslin
Some critics argue that Trump was a liberal Democrat until recently and we cannot trust him to keep any of his promises on immigration, or anything else.

Some critics? He supported amnesty himself for years - all the way up to June 2015.

10 posted on 01/30/2016 12:51:25 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: dp0622

“someone must not have read him the letter where Lincoln basically said he was just dandy with slavery”

That’s an exchange of letters with Horace Greeley IIRC. But Lincoln was hardly indifferent to slavery, it’s rather that his overriding concern was to preserve the Union and if that required guaranteeing slavery’s continued existence he would do it. Frederick Douglass went over this in a speech he gave at the 10th anniversary of Lincoln’s death.


11 posted on 01/30/2016 12:51:56 PM PST by Pelham (Barack Obama, loyal son of Islam and Alinsky)
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To: Duchess47

Actually, no.

That’s why I’m saying what I’m saying.

He will turn on a dime.


12 posted on 01/30/2016 12:52:56 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Duchess47
He's proposed one big government policy after another in this campaign - not just "years ago". He's been consistently liberal up to the present day.
13 posted on 01/30/2016 12:54:09 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: dp0622

Lincoln gave a speech in January 1848 about the Mexican war stating he his support for secession. Apparently that changed when he was in charge. He was a professional politician and as hypocritical as any of them.

“...Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better— This is a most valuable, — a most sacred right — a right, which we hope and belive, is to liberate the world...”

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mal:@field(DOCID+@lit(d0007400))


14 posted on 01/30/2016 12:55:31 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

GO TRUMP!


15 posted on 01/30/2016 12:55:51 PM PST by Guenevere (If.the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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To: Kaslin
The media pundits don't get it, though. They offer up all kinds of explanations for Trump's success that have nothing to do with the issue of immigration: It's his simple sentences. It's his rudeness and bruskness. It's his hair. He's an outsider. The people who support him are stupid (40% of Republicans!).

He could of started right there and skipped the intro.

16 posted on 01/30/2016 1:02:10 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ifinnegan

He’s generally turned in what we would call a rightward direction, when turning at all.


17 posted on 01/30/2016 1:04:27 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: jospehm20

In the end we can’t count on men, much less the short sighted molds that we make for them.

We have to count on God. The spirit may be willing and yet the flesh is weak, and so at best we see a colossal detour in our plans. And if we don’t have the patience to make it through the detour, we’ll hang it up before we ever get where we wanted to get.


18 posted on 01/30/2016 1:06:42 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: dp0622
someone must not have read him the letter where Lincoln basically said he was just dandy with slavery

nope, go search for it yourself

Well I did a search and what he said was this:

"I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel."

He also said this:

"Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow."

And this:

"I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began."

And finally this: "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it."

19 posted on 01/30/2016 1:18:27 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Pelham

The Establishment and its media minions are ultimately responsible for Trump’s candidacy. And while they attack Trump, their contempt is in fact focused on us. Mutual contempt I suppose.


20 posted on 01/30/2016 1:19:08 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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