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Can Trump win as the "moderate"?

Remember what Bill Buckley once said: "Moderate is a base-stealing word for liberal Republicans."

1 posted on 04/22/2023 10:23:40 AM PDT by TBP
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Can Trump win over the GOP as the ‘moderate’ in the race?

He didn't last time. He lost, remember?

2 posted on 04/22/2023 10:27:10 AM PDT by rexthecat
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Perhaps he is “moving to the center”, thinking that he already has the primary in the bag.


3 posted on 04/22/2023 10:28:19 AM PDT by Moorings
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DJT will win the nomination only to have the general election taken from him once again. But don’t be glum; even the most dense among us will realize something is terribly wrong and begin the process of taking back America. And it will be glorious.


5 posted on 04/22/2023 10:29:31 AM PDT by JonPreston
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That he's running as a moderate is laughable.

Trump has the most conservative record as President as any President in recent history, perhaps surpassing Reagan.

Establishment publications like NRO are trying to re-write history that will all remember.

It's DeSantis that is bed with the establishment of the party, which has consistently broke its promises to the base of the party.

6 posted on 04/22/2023 10:29:33 AM PDT by Kazan
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‘Trans’ republicans teamed up with the demonic left stole an election, and then claim President Trump lost. As they say the devil is literally in the details.


7 posted on 04/22/2023 10:31:05 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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How about not taking Rich Lowry seriously?


9 posted on 04/22/2023 10:32:22 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Only in Rich Lowry’s world are pandering to the neocons on the proxy war in Ukraine and to the Chamber of Commerce as DeSantis has done examples of conservatism.


10 posted on 04/22/2023 10:32:36 AM PDT by Kazan
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We really need to win over mail in ballots. What do we need a moderate for? What is a moderate? Half RAT?

How is running a hybrid RAT RINO going to fix that RICH RINO Lowery?


11 posted on 04/22/2023 10:33:33 AM PDT by dforest (All of America has derailed.)
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Can Trump win over the GOP as the ‘moderate’ in the race?

No.

I posted on Inauguration Day 2017 that Trump had six months to disavow the GOP and find 435 Americans to run for Congress under his banner in 2018 before the GOP could recover from the shock and destroy his Presidency.

I was right.

Trump's continued sad devotion to a party that hates him is pathetic.

12 posted on 04/22/2023 10:34:07 AM PDT by Jim Noble (You have sat too long for any good you have been doing )
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The alleged radicalism of Donald Trump has mostly to do with his personal conduct, his outrageous statements, his conspiracy theories and his contempt for norms and rules.

They said the same thing about Andrew Jackson.

15 posted on 04/22/2023 10:36:21 AM PDT by Publius
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Rich Lowery

South hating neocon bitch

With admirers here

He and Jonah Goldberg equally suck

TBP you’re gonna suffer another Trump nomination

I’ve got plenty trazadone for my Rottie

Freepmail me

/s


16 posted on 04/22/2023 10:36:40 AM PDT by wardaddy (Truth is treason in the Empire of lies)
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Whether the moderates and the weak can win, doesn’t matter.

What matters is tough love, and the country needs somebody that is tough that can move the country away from the woke and weak policies that have the country moving towards incoherence and devastation.

Moderates are not needed. Weaklings, not needed.

To move the country out of the mediocrity that is destroying the country, we need a president that can change things, and he’s already done that once, so, let’s Make America Great Again; he’s the one that can lead us out of the weakness that has befallen us.


18 posted on 04/22/2023 10:38:35 AM PDT by adorno
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Conservatism without Nationalism is like Faith without Works.

And that’s where Trump is the most conservative national candidate in a generation, if not a century.

No other candidate approaches Nationalism. It’s a dirty word to them.


19 posted on 04/22/2023 10:39:21 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Labels like moderate have no useful meaning after voters see how in-your-face-corrupt the government has become.


22 posted on 04/22/2023 10:40:06 AM PDT by Widget Jr (🇺🇸 Trump 2024 🇺🇸)
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Probably not, but the more real votes he can draw, the more egregious the steal will have to be, and eventually the whole house of card will come tumbling down...

It will be ugly and will probably mark the end of this great Republic, but given where we’re at, that’s not as bad as it may seem. Everyone alive will have to endure pain, suffering, and loss but that’s going to be true if we continue down the path we’re on anyway.


23 posted on 04/22/2023 10:42:44 AM PDT by bigbob
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And to think the FR Trump chumps are trying to call DeSantis a “RINO” while Trump’s campaign is calling DeSantis too extreme.


24 posted on 04/22/2023 10:42:55 AM PDT by dangus ( )
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Trump and ONLY Trump in 24

He should be president NOW!!


28 posted on 04/22/2023 10:54:51 AM PDT by afchief
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Rich Lowry is striking out here.

This is not the Reagan Revolution - when politics was about who can best articulate and defend conservative principles.

We won that battle of ideas, but we are losing the war anyway, because the Left has refused to abide by the will of the people.
They have refused to honor fair debate.
They have refused to report the truth.
They have refused to record the true history
They refuse to accept fair elections.

They have lied and cheated their way into all our institutions.

So winning the war of ideas is no longer the issue. We already won that.
Everyone knows the government spends too much.
Everyone knows we are overtaxed.
Everyone knows these endless foreign wars are not in the national interest.
Everyone knows what’s wrong with fiat currency.
Everyone knows what’s wrong with giving up manufacturing dominance.
Everyone knows what’s wrong with giving up energy dominance.
Everyone knows what’s wrong with a permanent unelected bureaucracy.
Everyone knows what’s wrong with open borders.
Everyone knows what’s wrong with teaching perversion in schools.

The time for arguing over moderate vs. conservative vs. liberal is long past.

Trump’s MAGA movement is not about who is more conservative - it’s about who will fight for what we already know.


34 posted on 04/22/2023 11:14:31 AM PDT by enumerated ( )
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Lowry talks about Trump not reigning in spending as if to contrast him with other Republican Presidents. Whether Conservative, Moderate or somewhere in between, there hasn’t been a Republican President in over 40 years who has reined in spending. And there hasn’t been a Republican candidate during that whole time who would have done any differently had he had been elected.


42 posted on 04/22/2023 11:35:22 AM PDT by mbrfl
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“Of course, Trump’s personal power is such that he’s made loyalty to himself the standard for being considered right-wing...”

Absolute misreading of anything having to do with Trump support.

Lowery keeps his head up his ass.

Lowery, you squish, have you ever watched Trump in the campaign rallies and listened to what Trump says?


45 posted on 04/22/2023 11:43:06 AM PDT by odawg
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