Mr Levin, In the 2012 election you excoriated callers who wanted to vote their conscience, like vote Ron Paul, or abstain from voting instead of supporting the RINO nominee Romney.
Here is one sound-clip example of you from then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzyMJiO46qY
So what changed, in your view, to now make it an acceptable, principled stance for callers who say they will not support the GOP nominee, Trump?
As my time here is very limited, I’m not able to listen to 8-minute audio clip you provided, /u/TheFabian. I suppose you know that I’m on the air 3 hours-a-day, 5-days-a-weeks. Too often, people cherry-pick what I say. What you did not say in your post is that my opposition to Ron Paul included his viciously anti-semitic newsletters, which he never explained. He also had a long history of trashing the likes of Ronald Reagan, Antonin Scalia, and scores of other great conservatives. There was no way I was going to support him in the Republican Primary.
I was no fan of Mitt Romney. Anyone listening to my program at the time knows that. But in the end ias with Hillary, I believed it was more important to defeat Obama, given the two choices. That was obviously a correct view.
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Determined_Echo
I have heard you talk about if Trump loses you will put the blame directly on Trump, not the media, not on rigged elections…. which I agree with completely. My question is why don’t you put the blame on Cruz for not winning the primaries the same way? I have only heard excuses: there were too many candidates, there was no one-on-one debate, Trump was on TV too much….
And, with this absolutely brilliant question, Levin disappeared.
Ask him anything except the tough questions.
There are some real sore losers out there, and Levin is King.
Sounds to me like being a pissy sore loser has hit him in the pocket book. But it’s too late, he done went and pissed of a shitload of liberal that USE TO listen to his bullshit!
Liberal my ass….I meant CONSERVATIVES! I should proof read when I’m trying to multi-task!
Mark Levin, I had a lot of respect for him at one time. Landmark Legal Foundation is still good but when it comes to this election he has lost me as a supporter.
I listened to him every morning on podcast. That being said, I never thought I would like to spend any time with him. My inclination is he is boorish and insufferable when not giving a lecture on an interesting topic in which he stays focused. He impresses me a petty and a sore loser and the fact that he was no longer so much educating his audience as being an ass overwhelmed my desire to wait out his rants.
Trump was not my first choice until Levin so made me hate the sound of my guy’s name, particularly after Trump proved he had what it will take to defeat the media’s candidate… and Cruz showed me he did not. Today, after what I have seen from a Cruz who does not have things fall in line and go his way – it is obvious the media would have eaten him alive.
Mark who? He’s going the way of Glen Beck. I tuned him out months ago.
“Levin answers this the way I’ve always answered it. I’ve always found this fear to be completely illogical when it comes from a noodlebrain who says Trump ISN’T a conservative.”
I guess I’m just an idiot since I can’t find an answer here at all. Could a non-noodlebrain please explain to the rest of us noodlebrains how the liberal Trump is conservative?
Yo Levin! STFU YA BIG DOPE!
To be fair, he did say up front that his time was limited, and it appeared that he could have left the AMA two questions ahead of “Determined_Echo”, or some time afterwards, although it is hard to tell because he just stopped without saying goodbye. There were a ton of other questions after that point that didn’t get answered either because no one knew he had stopped responding. He may have left because he knew he didn’t have time enough to respond to everyone, but he should have at least signed off so he didn’t waste peoples’ time.
Here’s the link if you want to look at the AMA session yourself.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/51xc6c/mark_levin_here_for_an_amaa/
(NOTE: Before I get accused of defending Levin, let me just say that I’ve heard the guy’s name, but that’s it. Never listened to his show, and couldn’t have told you before today exactly what he did, so I’m not exactly a fan of his, OK?)
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Hell’s bells. He’s going to vote for Trump. That’s one vote more. The rest? ….whatever. ….Lady in Red
sad, very sad … I was one of Levin’s most ardent & admirable supporters. I have most of his books, several that were personally autographed …. but no more … no more
fool me twice, shame on me
you hold on to your so-called ‘conservative’ ideology Mr. Levin … while the rest of us try to hold on to our country … thanks for your tepidity … I suppose, in the long run, it’s something … I suppose
Trump isn’t a natural born Constitutional conservative, but he has some very good ideas. I don’t see throwing the baby out with the bathwater, particularly when Cruz was the best hope for Constitutional conservatives and he was demonstrably not up to the task of taking on the media’s candidate, as anything but destructive.
Correct me where I am wrong… if you can.
Remembering this: Trump showed everyone how he could go through Cruz like shit through a goose by being on the offensive and taking full advantage of every arrow in his quiver. Not only was he willing to take Cruz to the mat, using Alinski tactics, he used Cruz to hone his understanding of how the game is played and came out of the primaries prepared to take Hillary out.
For the love of Christ, the media sets the rules and if you are not willing and demonstrably ABLE to master Alinski tactics, you are starting a lap down. For the love of God man, that is how the Clintons play politics and if the candidate is not willing or able to go to the mat and bite in the clinches the outcome will be decided by the media.
The media got on board with the Clinton strategy that all’s fair in love and war and…by God only Donald Trump was astute to recognize where this was headed early on and was ready and somewhat able to “go there.”
Early on he was not practiced, but throughout the primary Trump recognized, developed and exploited what it will take to win against the media’s candidate. Cruz did not.
Today we have a candidate we have some reservations about who will shellac Hillary, and we have to go with him despite the fact that he is not a natural born conservative.
Now, all of the above taken into consideration: His kids are natural born Constitutional conservatives and irrespective of what any one else can do to move him in our direction, that is where my hopes lie. and not without justification. His sons are solid.
JD, and who raised those sons? Trumps moved the ball farther than anybody before him. I don’t care what label you put on him. The proper label might be savior
What someone please help me out and explain what a “constitutional conservative” is, exactly? I also need some help on understanding why this is the type of person the republicans should nominate, why some think that Donald Trump is not a “conservative” or a “constitutional conservative” (note my use of parentheses), and why he is such a horrible candidate. The American people seem to like him and count me as a Trump fan, as well. The Constitution says nothing about immigration and international trade, and these clearly are two of our nation’s biggest problems. Immigration is my #1 issue and I think we need to build the wall, deport all illegals, and call an end to the outdated process of immigration to the US. BTW I think these labels of “liberal” and “conservative” or “Constitutional conservative” are outdated, confusing, and not of much value (but I’m an opinionated jerk).
Levin is simply being a sophist on this subject. He bought Cruz lock, stock and barrel and now he’s stuck having to justify his vitriolic and erroneous assessment of Trump. He just can’t admit the chink in his armor of self-righteousness, otherwise it would call into question his entire professional punditry life.
It’s sad to think that if he would only get down off his prideful soap box and approach the subject of Trump and his own views of him with some objectivity he would probably endear himself to people like me who always saw him as a great champion of the conservative movement. But he’s turned into what I loathe, another ivory tower intellectual who will get us all killed waiting for their Utopia.
TO AA
What’s AS galling to me about his arrogant, sanctimonious INability to admit he was wrong about Trump, is the historical fact of his support (AFTER their nominations) of McCain and Romney. NONE of the enthusiasm…and it shows.
I’d have a *smidgen* more patience with a guy who was consistent with his “I’m stickin’ with my guy, but we gotta win this together” schtick.
…but ALL OF A SUDDEN, JUST BECAUSE IT’S Trump?!?
Nope.
Never listened to but Levin has gotten a new listener from me and many others months ago who do not want a follow the crowd kind of guy. I can’t listen to Hannity anymore he is so far up Trumps ass the poop smell is coming through my speakers. Im voting for Trump but I do not support him, I do not like him, he in reality is just some wishy washy moderate or worse. Bush would have been more conservative than this guy if you look at Trumps past and what he has said and done. But Hillary is so bad and this what we are left with.
TO Buck
I think you’re asking rhetorically but, if not…
The whole yada yada about “Constitutional Conservative” has been co-opted over the years from Tea Party folks by the GOP Establishment to keep the more Right-leaning sheep on their Plantation. According to the motto: “Say what they want to hear, do nothing.” (Sound familiar? Just like the Dems and BLM/Blacks in general)
Want examples? Just see all those so-called “Constitutional Conservatives” who had years in Congress to make substantial changes. We kept voting for them, and they kept “Rightwing Virtue Signalling”: lots of legislative hand-waving on nice-sounding bills that never went anywhere…“but they tried, they really really tried!”
ENOUGH with the Kabuki “trying.”
There are even idiots on the Right out there *still* yammering on that Trump wants more government (e.g. bigger military, or whatever) and “that makes him another RINO.” Compared to Hillary?!? Uh huh…riiiiiiiight.
They squeal on about “limited government” as if it were a Holy Masturbatory Call in hopes of a Constitutional Cum Shot which will save America.
Newsflash to these idiots: the only ones who can save America are ourselves and any “leaders” we put into office. And TRUMP is “our” option this cycle.
But the GOPe continues to seduce their sheep with such calls.
Some of these sheep even delude themselves, imagining *they* came up with the notion.
If they don’t wake up tout suite,
it is time to take them to slaughter.
TrueLIES chiming in to stink up the place
with more distortion and defeatism.
I thought we were de-trolling this place?
For a guy who is supposedly a Constitutional expert, why did he want a Canadian as President?
TO Anon
SHH!!! Don’t start goin’ there an’
embarrassin’ the big ol’ Elite Intellectual
with inconvenient questions like that!!!
What kills me about Levin – and I’ve been a fan since he was only local in NYC – is that he has to know that it does NO GOOD for our side to take this stand that “we have to point out the flaws about Trump, blah, blah, blah”.
The time for that is OVER. There are two people in this race. Pick one and SUPPORT them or SHUT UP.
This would be like Mohammed Ali’s coach taking to the airwaves right before a big fight and saying, “Look, I have to be honest, let me point out all of Ali’s weak points…”
Mr. Immortal Fish,
The answer is right there.
I’ve heard more than I can stomach from people who go on and on that Trump is not a conservative, and then when asked why this is so important when this is a 2 person race (and we’re interested in electing the candidate that will damage us least) they say,
“because he’s going to damage the conservative brand!!!!”
Please, for the love of God, tell me you see the illogicalness of this.
If you’re convinced he’s a liberal you can’t whine that electing him will “set back the conservative movement.”
That makes absolutely no sense.
By the way, the AMA question wasn’t “how is the liberal Trump a conservative?”
This would be like Mohammed Ali’s coach taking to the airwaves right before a big fight and saying, “Look, I have to be honest, let me point out all of Ali’s weak points…”>>>
As I said to JohnS-
You’re the guy sitting around the campfire the night before the big battle, when everyone is singing spirituals and revving each other up, saying, “you know, these guns they gave us have been known to jam and misfire.”
Do you not expect a bullet in the head, eventually?
TO irony and Fur
I *love* your analogies!
(Ali’s weaknesses and jamming guns)
There. Are. CONSEQUENCES.
If you really listen to Rush and Sean, both are “we have to stop the Clintons/Leftists”. They understand there is only one choice to do that and it is Trump. They know he is not Reagan but we at least stand a chance of surviving as a country with him. Maybe Mark has finally figured that out too.
TO oldgeezer
Reagan was the right guy for those times…
…NOT FOR TODAY or for TODAY’S ISSUES.
Trump IS.
IMHO it’s those of us on the right who believe in thinking for ourselves. I therefore do not give a bright shiny shit what he or any of the other talking heads has to say.
TO JustAl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW0Ujhfelqw
“You have to think for yourselves!”
I said so many negative things about the way Levin was dumping on Trump that Levin blocked me from his Twitter. At LEAST he now says he will vote Trump. I wonder if Beck will finally come around and vote Trump?