Andrew Breitbart and Michelle Malkin warned conservatives about The Donald

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The rise of The Donald has been remarkable. He is, it seems, supported by conservative Republicans and independents. At least that is the what they claim to be. He is supported by people who impose strict litmus tests on politicians-ready to denounce them as RINOs or liberals at the drop of a hat. And yet, those litmus tests don’t appear to apply to Trump.

On the contrary, he can do no wrong. And everything he says must be good-because he is “speaking his mind” and “telling it like it is.” Trump supporters have excused his flip-flops (something they would have never done for Mitt Romney) on issues like abortion and guns. Trump supporters have ignored his current faults, including his continuing defense of single-payer healthcare. Trump supporters have also ignored his personal and business failings, including but not limited to: his fake brand of Christianity, his three marriages, his four bankruptcies, his four draft deferments, his use of eminent domain, and his unabashed buying-off of politicians (including the Clintons).....


....Michelle Malkin has had a very public feud with Trump going back to 2011 as well…and it has continued. She wrote a devastating column about “Donald Trump’s eminent-domain empire.”

    Trump has attempted to use the same tactics in Connecticut and has championed the reviled Kelo vs. City of New London Supreme Court ruling upholding expansive use of eminent domain. He told Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto that he agreed with the ruling “100 percent” and defended the chilling power of government to kick people out of their homes and businesses based on arbitrary determinations:

    “The fact is, if you have a person living in an area that’s not even necessarily a good area, and government, whether it’s local or whatever, government wants to build a tremendous economic development, where a lot of people are going to be put to work and make (an) area that’s not good into a good area, and move the person that’s living there into a better place — now, I know it might not be their choice — but move the person to a better place and yet create thousands upon thousands of jobs and beautification and lots of other things, I think it happens to be good.”

    Like most statist promises of bountiful job creation, government-engineered redevelopment math rarelyaddsup. Trump’s corporations have backed casino industry bailouts and wealth-redistributing “tax-increment financing” schemes — the very kind of taxpayer-subsidized interventions we’ve seen on a grand scale under the Obama administration.

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http://www.redstate.com/diary/southernconstitutionalist/2015/08/08/andrew-breitbart-and-michelle-malkin-warned-conservatives-about-the-donald/

[sinkspur]

Trump's sycophants DON'T CARE what he believes. All they care about is his pissed-offness, his willingness to insult and demean other people, and his constant sloganeering.

Just ask them what he believes about, say, abortion, or healthcare.  If they know, they'll be ashamed to repeat it. 

Republicans who trash candidates for changing positions will back a man who donates to the Clinton Foundation and, up until the day before yesterday, was an avowed DEMOCRAT.

[Oceander]

Trump is a minor apotheosis for the sort of crony capitalism conservatives claim to hate.  He's also avowedly pro-abortion and gun control, amongst other things.  And he hasn't shown the slightest sign of making the intellectual efforts that marked Reagan's transformation from democrat to republican, so his claims of honest change ring hollow; in other words, he's a flip-flopper.

[truth_seeker]

Trump is a minor apotheosis for the sort of crony capitalism conservatives claim to hate.  He's also avowedly pro-abortion and gun control, amongst other things.  And he hasn't shown the slightest sign of making the intellectual efforts that marked Reagan's transformation from democrat to republican, so his claims of honest change ring hollow; in other words, he's a flip-flopper.

Trump proves the weakness of "contemporary conservatism" which takes him in stride. The old fashioned idea of holding viewpoints over freedom to keep and own your own property, are now down the toilet, thanks to Kelo and Trump.

Ronald Reagan should be rolling in his grave. And a bunch of people calling themselves "conservative" and supporting Trump are a joke.

They substitute loud and rude for thoughtful and principled.

In California old fashioned "redevelopment districts/zones" have given way to extremely high density.

[jmyrlefuller]

I wonder what Andrew would say today, seeing the site bearing his name blatantly shilling for Trump.