Natl Review against Trump

[Indeependent]

Republicans and conservatives might be crazy and wrong on the issues, but they're not stupid – they correctly understand that Trump as the nominee would be a disaster for the GOP.

No, they are crazy.

 

[Synthaholic]

Sad!

 

[Luddly Neddite]

National Review Disinvited From GOP Debate After Publishing Anti-Trump Issue

RNC cuts debate ties with conservative magazine over anti-Trump issue | Fox News

 

[Mac1958]

Wow, that's a pretty bold move.

This is all so weird. With the rise of Trump, many of the hardcore conservatives have essentially morphed into nationalist populists.

They've tossed traditional conservatism under the bus.

Who woulda thunk it?
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[bodecea]

In the next couple of weeks the Clinton/Sanders split will begin. Look forward to it BECAUSE it IS going to happen.

Deflection Alert!

 

[bodecea]

National Review aims to take down Trump National Review aims to take down Trump


*snip*


The National Review issue features anti-Trump essays from more than 20 conservative thinkers, leaders and commentators spanning the GOP’s ideological spectrum from David Boaz, executive vice president of the libertarian-infused Cato Institute, to William Kristol, the hawkish editor of the Weekly Standard, to David McIntosh, president of the Club for Growth. All call for Republicans to nominate someone other than Trump.

“This is the time to mobilize,” said National Review editor Rich Lowry, who is also a weekly opinion columnist at POLITICO. “The establishment is AWOL, or even worse, so it’s up to people who really believe in these ideas and principles, for whom they’re not just talking points or positions of convenience, to set out the marker.”

*snip*

The idea of choosing between Cruz and Trump, though, has soured many Republicans. “It’s like being shot or poisoned,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, who recently dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Bush, said on Capitol Hill Thursday. “What does it really matter?”

For movement conservatives, Lowry said, the choice is clear: Anybody but Trump.

“We’ve spent our lifetimes opposing poll-driven Republicans, and here’s a guy who’s the single most poll-obsessed politician in the history of the United States, judging by what he says,” Lowry said. “And we’re going to put him in the White House and expect him to stand by anything he’s said? It’s an insane gamble.”

All this will accomplish is the folks that write the opeds will garner the wrath of the base, well the few that actually read it. The establishment folks still haven't figured out that they are responsible for Trumps popularity.

What kind of "wrath" do you have in mind?

 

[bodecea]

National Review Disinvited From GOP Debate After Publishing Anti-Trump Issue

RNC cuts debate ties with conservative magazine over anti-Trump issue | Fox News

Schism!

 

[edthecynic]

Check out the list at the link of those against Drumpf.

But hey, he's still got $arah, talking in tongues and bringing in those votes!

 

[OKTexas]

National Review aims to take down Trump National Review aims to take down Trump


*snip*


The National Review issue features anti-Trump essays from more than 20 conservative thinkers, leaders and commentators spanning the GOP’s ideological spectrum from David Boaz, executive vice president of the libertarian-infused Cato Institute, to William Kristol, the hawkish editor of the Weekly Standard, to David McIntosh, president of the Club for Growth. All call for Republicans to nominate someone other than Trump.

“This is the time to mobilize,” said National Review editor Rich Lowry, who is also a weekly opinion columnist at POLITICO. “The establishment is AWOL, or even worse, so it’s up to people who really believe in these ideas and principles, for whom they’re not just talking points or positions of convenience, to set out the marker.”

*snip*

The idea of choosing between Cruz and Trump, though, has soured many Republicans. “It’s like being shot or poisoned,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, who recently dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Bush, said on Capitol Hill Thursday. “What does it really matter?”

For movement conservatives, Lowry said, the choice is clear: Anybody but Trump.

“We’ve spent our lifetimes opposing poll-driven Republicans, and here’s a guy who’s the single most poll-obsessed politician in the history of the United States, judging by what he says,” Lowry said. “And we’re going to put him in the White House and expect him to stand by anything he’s said? It’s an insane gamble.”

All this will accomplish is the folks that write the opeds will garner the wrath of the base, well the few that actually read it. The establishment folks still haven't figured out that they are responsible for Trumps popularity.

What kind of "wrath" do you have in mind?

Exactly what you're seeing now, just on a wider scale. Establishment folks aren't going to tell the people that are pissed off at them, they don't know what their doing and not get more entrenched pissed off people. Business as usual is dysfunctional, people aren't going to vote for it any longer.

 

[JimH52]

As I have been saying from the beginning. If Trump wins the nomination, a good number of dedicated conservatives will stay at home on election day. The split in the GOP may very well elect someone as liberal as Bernie. AMAZING!

 

[defcon4]

As I have been saying from the beginning. If Trump wins the nomination, a good number of dedicated conservatives will stay at home on election day. The split in the GOP may very well elect someone as liberal as Bernie. AMAZING!

..then they will bitch and moan faulting everybody but themselves...

 

[Synthaholic]

National Review Disinvited From GOP Debate After Publishing Anti-Trump Issue

RNC cuts debate ties with conservative magazine over anti-Trump issue | Fox News