Most scholars trace the foundation of Conservative thought back to Edmund Burke and his book condemning the Terror of the French Revolution, “On the Revolution in France.”
Jame Lewis at American Thinker uses Burke’s source of Conservatism and ask how Donald Trump’s candidacy for President stacks up against principles.
Better than
Hillary
Obama
Any other liberal
Or
GOPe
“They can tell when he’s being provocative to get a rise out of people and when he means something. That is why Trump can get away with violating the puritanical strictures of PC.”
In a nutshell (acorn, that is.)
But try to explain that to anyone and they think you are crazy, stupid, duped, cult-driven or even downright evil. Go figure.
Speaking for myself, it is not so much the pure conservatism that makes Trump attractive, it is the fact that he comes from outside the political establishment. Cruz is viewed as outside the political establishment also. They are probably the only 2 candidates I can see even starting to get things fixed in Washington. It may be too late.
I have vacillated between Trump and Cruz, viewing them through different lenses. But discovering that Trump favors affirmative action and ethanol subsidies, as well as his attacks on Cruz from the Leftist playbook, I have totally rejected him. It is Cruz for me now.
b b but he’s the only one who can win
THAT conservative principle
Smart man.
BTW: Trump supports NSA surveillance of Americans.
https://iotwreport.com/fv-community-news/post/trump-supports-nsa-surveillance-of-us-citizensmagnum/
Forgot we will be attacked in 3…2…1
No attack from me. I like the fact that most of the GOPers have been relegated to the hind tit by Trump and Cruz or Cruz and Trump. When it comes to nut cutting time, we will have a great nominee. Patience is golden.
Cruz supports Illegal Immigration (amnesty) TPP, increased VISA inflow to take American Jobs (a different kind of Amnesty) Muslim migration and his one positive quality mentioned is being anti-ethanol which should go over big in Iowa!
Great column at AT. He captures the essence of why Trump connects with 10s of 1,000s every week in yuge rallies while the rest of the field couldn’t draw flies and Cruz is doing diners and basements in churches.
Nationally Trump continues to break every left dominated ceiling as his poling numbers keep climbing because the more people hear him and like his bold, direct approaches to our nightmare and the more they learn about the swarmy Cruz, the higher he will rise in the polls.
I don’t agree 100% with Trump and if you’re looking for that guy, maybe your dad should run. But it sure beats Cruz, a lying flip flopper who tells you one thing and turns around and does something completely different. The guy is a big government, Mitch McConnell stooge no matter how much you desperately want to believe something else. The evidence is overwhelming to all but the mind numbed CruzBots.
I don’t think Trump’s a “conservative” at all, with the possible exception of being a man who wishes to conserve the better aspects of America.
And I cannot discern any disingenuousness in the man which makes him a more attractive candidate than one who is a staunch “conservative” but exudes some phony aspects (an observation, not a stab at anyone … like CHEB!).
The McConnell stooge who absolutely excoriated McConnell on the senate floor and called him a liar?
Cruz is holding a rally this week in MN-lets see how many people he can get-he will have had about a week to get the word out. Right now Cruz is afraid to announce the venue, he’s waiting to see what kind of response he’ll get and then pick a place that’ll look like it’s overflowing-HA!
Trump sold out the Dallas arena with over 20,000 with 3 days notice.
If you are against the Patriot Act’s allowing for NSA surveillance, you’ll be very unhappy about Ted Cruz using Cambridge Analytica (funded by Robert Mercer to the tune of $750,000. this year and 2.5M for the past two years) using your own FB profile in a what appears to have been a successful and highly sophisticated psy ops-type maneuver to tailor Cruz’s messages to specific voter groups.
I know I don’t like it. I also don’t like that Cruz is getting the lion’s share of his campaign donations as a result of Big Money donors kick-starting his super-PACs. I don’t like super-PACs at all. I don’t think anything says “insider” like someone who plays all the right angles in order to make himself look like an outsider. My stock in Cruz is shrinking with every new revelation like this. 🙁
P.S. the NSA has never stopped using the mass collection of data, they just don’t keep it on their own servers anymore.
Oh, and although Sundance wrote about this, I think it may be better if this info comes from another source:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/11/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data
WAPO (that rag) also wrote about it, but there are others.
funny….Burke kinda looks like a 18th century Donald….lol
Doug, You (and others, probably) need to do a little more digging on the background there. I’m finding that Cruz has a very public and a very private, political side that is not transparent. See the link I provided on the story about Cambridge Analytica, for example. I don’t mind candidates mining social media if the SM users are aware of how their data is being used, but having it used against them (us) should be transparent and not double back in the form of a highly-processed campaign message. It’s creepy. No other word to describe it. It sure isn’t plain dealing.
I know you’re probably sick of me saying this but, there is only one issue. Immigration. Period.
The left is apoplectic because they are so close to having their goal of permanent electoral lock. There will never be another Republican president once Texas and Florida go blue. It may already be too late. The dedicated leftists know this: Obama, Rubio, Ryan. Why does the Republican establishment continue to fight tooth and nail to make itself mathematically eliminated?
What difference does frickin ethanol subsidies make when Elizabeth Warren replaces Scalia on SCOTUS! Oh, and please fund Planned Parenthood. Imagine how many democrat votes they’ve flushed down the toilet, literally. The time for orthodoxy was over as soon as Saint Ronald signed amnesty in 1986
AA nailed it-you should make CTH a stop. Ted Cruz is a Janus and you’re only seeing one side of his two faces.
Let’s put that ethanol subject in perspective. In 2012 we spent $37,680,000,000 in foreign aid. You can bet your ass it’s a lot higher now. I don’t like subsidies but at least that money is staying here.
Immigration is far from the only issue. What about the economy? Trump can fix it, Cruz can’t. Cruz has never even run a Lemon-aid stand.
Trump can win, Cruz can’t. Period.
After reading the link on George, interesting to note that he liked farming better than being president.
As I read my bible, after the shtf, Noah was a man of the soil.
Point: everything starts with, the dirt. Bottom up,
dear conservatives.
Things “may have changed” since then but ask you this: How beneficial would it be in these days, to grow a green thumb? (Have)
And, to learn how to hunt.
From a guy who has yet to. (Have not)
Looks like the left is winning.
Trump has some warts (ethanol subsidies), but he is breaking the floor under the GOP and the Dem coalition and he stands a chance of winning.
Cruz may be a great, God fearing man, but he still strikes me as a televangelist who has something up his sleeve – a Jimmy Baker type.
The AT author might’ve done more justice to his points using Russell Kirk or even Bill Buckley. JMO, but Burke is a beast to read, and fathom. Kirk and Buckley have ‘modernized’ conservatism from the roots grown by Sir Edmund. But, James is spot-damn-on highlighting The Donald’s ability to flush PC-ism down the porcelain vortex.
So, Cruz’s support of the Trans Pacific Trade Deal is of less importance?
Strange priorities.