The Anti-Trump Right's Sad Quest for Respectability

[Right_in_Virginia]

The Anti-Trump Right's Sad Quest for Respectability
American Thinker, Aug 8, 2016, Jack Cashill

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I have been praying for the wisdom to understand the lace curtain, anti-Trump right – the Weekly Standard, National Review, Commentary, even The American Spectator.  But it was not until I saw the Cato mailer that my overriding sentiment crystallized.  These people are pathetic, deluded, fearful.  They are frightened someone will think them vulgar or nutty or, God forbid, racist.  They are the "bleep" Clint Eastwood warned us about.

Instead of advancing our embattled causes this past year, they devoted much of their time to writing gleeful Trump-bashing editorials.  The common core of these editorials might be distilled as "How could you all be so stupid?"  The "stupid" include not only those who supported Trump in the primary, but also those of us, like myself, who supported Trump after our candidates fell by the wayside.

Willfully oblivious of recent history, the lace-curtain crowd fail to see that if their chosen candidate had been nominated – say, Jeb Bush or Scott Walker or Marco Rubio – the media would have customized an attack strategy to take down that candidate just as savagely.  Even if Carly Fiorina or Ben Carson were the nominee, the media would have somehow managed to portray either of them as "unbelievably racist, misogynistic and homophobic."


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[sinkspur]

Already posted.

[RoosGirl]

So we aren't supporting Trump because of the media's customized attack strategy for him?  Seriously, that's the dumbest supposed explanation for why conservatives won't support Trump I have heard.

[Cripplecreek]

So we aren't supporting Trump because of the media's customized attack strategy for him?  Seriously, that's the dumbest supposed explanation for why conservatives won't support Trump I have heard.

Trump has been a celebrity lowlife for more than 30 years. I didn't need the modern media to figure him out.

[jmyrlefuller]

Willfully oblivious of recent history, the lace-curtain crowd fail to see that if their chosen candidate had been nominated – say, Jeb Bush or Scott Walker or Marco Rubio – the media would have customized an attack strategy to take down that candidate just as savagely.  Even if Carly Fiorina or Ben Carson were the nominee, the media would have somehow managed to portray either of them as "unbelievably racist, misogynistic and homophobic."

The difference is that no one has to customize an attack strategy against Trump. All anyone has to do is turn on the microphones and let him talk. Everything against him is stuff he's already said. No one has to distort it out of context, spread innuendo or anything. It's all public record!

Ironically, he has no record of what he would do when actually IN government.

[Wingnut]

Already posted.

She can't keep up.  Busy deleting posts and all.

[Right_in_Virginia]

She can't keep up.  Busy deleting posts and all.

Not yet, @Wingnut   

[EasyAce]