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The Essayist Papers

Friday, 22 January 2016, 2:33 BFH Uncategorized 43

NRO has published the essays by a handpicked group of self-identified conservatives who make the case against a Donald Trump presidency.

Strangely omitted from these essays are the essayist’s pick for the person who should represent the GOP in the general election.

I’d think that would be important, no?

If someone writes 2000 words and at the end they say, “and that is why, ladies and gentleman, my choice for the presidency is Lindsey Graham,” we can summarily dismiss the “conservative” as a loon.

The comment section is split, with the NRO dissenters saying that Trump exists because while we watched “conservatives” let this country drift more and more leftward, NRO hasn’t managed to pool together 2 dozen essayists to collectively carp about anything.

Like a spousal abuser, they want everyone to give them one more chance.

A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it. –William F. Buckley, Founder of National Review

 

43 Comments on The Essayist Papers

  2. Cripes! As soon as there’s a buck to be made off of it… “…self-identified conservatives..” indeed. Cruz will regret letting Beck talk him into proselytizing religion and conservatism as a campaign strategy. Individuals know their own conservatism and their own relationship with God.

  3. I can’t even begin to say how fed up this makes me with organized conservatism. Is it any wonder people cross the street to avoid clean cut people who are smiling.

  11. Where did I say Donald Trump is a true blue conservative? And where did I personally mock or interpret your (or anybody’s) support for Ted Cruz?
    We’re on the same side – why are you being an asshole to me? I think an apology is in order.

  16. I have to commend Big Fur Hat for the way he has handled this whole Trump/Cruz controversy. He hasn’t trashed either one for the sake of the other, but he has posted both positive and negative, newsworthy items on each.

    I have temporarily suspended my visits to some other blogs because they are too lopsided, with no graceful way to reconcile with fellow conservatives in a few months, when the Republican nominee is officially decided.

    Well played, sir!

  20. Let me just finish it here. This site has become viral for me in that the moderators are nuts. That was a good thing for many years. Then came Mr. Pinko, who wants apologies and such Bwa, ha, ha!

  22. I won’t bother to read them-do they really think that light bulbs are going to go off en masse? And suddenly everyone will supposedly come to their senses and put their noses back into the GOPe’s asscrack?

    We get it NRO, TownHall, Salem, Weakly Standard, Will, Krauthammer, Beck, RedState, NewsBusters, most of FOX, Levin…all of you are more comfortable with the status quo. Us pee-ons here at Ground Zero, not having the luxury of limos, security and gated communities have a different POV. Yaknow, since we’re the shock troops that are actually experiencing the nightmare of your indifference.

    Too bad for you I remember how similar this all is to how you felt about RR. The country club republicans of those days had their hair on fire too.

    It must drive these RINOs nuts to see 10s of 1,000s of people standing for hours in the freezing cold for a chance to see Trump.

    Funny thing is, I don’t remember an entire issue like this devoted to denouncing 7 years of continuing resolutions, doubling the national debt, $5 TRILLION in fairy dust money, the destruction and degradation of our military, the black race war on whites, the moslim invasion of our country or the wall of statistical lies this administration uses to try and convince us all is well.

    I do remember George Will, Krauthammer, Kristol and others feted Obama after he was elected. Meet the new boss, right boyz?

  24. actually these are conservative Revolting From the Establishment GOP that’s Now Campaigning 4 Trump….

    sadly Trump does NOT have 1 fact to rebut any of the claims.. Liberal Progressive Trump is Not a Conservative

  25. “Ronald Reagan spent about 30 or 40 years marinating in conservative thought and advocating for conservative ideas,” Lowry added. “He just didn’t show up one day and say, ‘Hey, now I’m a conservative. Another problem with Trump is he seems to believe what this country needs is a really effective strong man to make the trains run on time when what we really need is the government to be cut down to size, restored to its rightful role and then focus on the important things, like the borders –“

    “AND THEN…”

    There’s the rub.

  26. I thought the reference to trains running on time was a cowardly and elitist thing to say. Why didn’t he just come out and call Trump a fascist for everyone to hear and be very, very clear about his charge? I’m with MM on this. Why no special edition on the state of this government in all these seven years? On Boehner’s and Ryan’s betrayal?

    It was precisely this scenario that woke me up to the reality of parties and politics that caused me to vote for McCain in ’08. It was embarrassing to realize that I’d been played for my entire life, but it wasn’t too late to try to make it right. McCain wasn’t right, either, but that’s all they gave us.

    I’d vote for Cruz in a NY minute if he’s the nominee, but it’s going to be hard to campaign for him after this. Can anyone blame me? He should have never let himself come under Beck’s influence. He should have never tried to hide behind some of these peoples’ venomous and twisted personalities. It makes it very hard to trust him now.

  27. So much for “National Review” ITSELF remembering WFBuckley’s advice to support “the most conservative candidate WHO CAN WIN.”

    They, like the GOPe, know their time is UP.

  28. SO: you’re more comfortable with

    a more ideologically PURE candidate who would LOSE

    than

    a less (if at all) ideologically pure candidate who nevertheless has GREAT POLICIES on 1) immigration/border, 2) TransPacificTradeDeal, 3) ObamaCare, 4) CommonCore WHO WILL WIN?!?

    Thanks for clearing that up.

    §§§

    Someday, you’ll realize that the GOPe is USING you guys (just as with the aforementioned media outlets) to split up the vote between Trump and Cruz to allow them to deal the cards (read: !Jeb!) when it’s time at the convention.

  29. With Trump’s positions on
    IMMIGRATION
    TRANS PACIFIC TRADE
    OBAMACARE
    COMMON CORE

    do you really care if he’s conservative “enough” on other issues?

    Deny all you wish, but innumerable analyses show me Trump is the only one who can conquer the Dems this year.

  30. TEXTBOOK EXAMPLE of
    “Cognitive Dissonance”:

    A) “Trump is now in bed with the Establishment”
    B) “Trump is not a real conservative”

    Step back and laugh!
    (…and drink heavily…)

  31. “Strangely omitted from these essays are the essayist’s pick for the person who should represent the GOP in the general election.”

    To state the obvious, it’s because THEY ARE COWARDS. They *know* “they” are going to lose, but they need to make one last-ditch effort to derail Trump, while still leaving the door open to schmooze upon his victory.

    So much for COURAGEOUS PRINCIPLES.
    *spits on floor*

  32. What we’re witnessing is the desperate howl of those used to sucking at will at the public teat being told the party may be over. Trillions are at stake. They’re howling in Davos. They’re howling in DC.

    These are the people who want open borders, high taxes and a disarmed population. It’s amazing how easily they’ve had their will done – just look at Ryan and the last budget blank check.

    That’s why I’m voting for Trump.

  33. It is interesting to note that these moguls of conservative thought have been the highly successful promoters of Bob Dole, Two Bushes, McCain and Romney! Now with that exemplary track record it is right and proper that we anoint them as super duper Conservative!

  34. Except for graphic yesterday with Trump as Gollum. Gave me a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. I was pretty disappointed that it seemed like BFH was jumping on the NRO bandwagon, and was thinking, “et tu, BFH?” I was glad when I came back this morning to see that my favorite blog had come to it’s senses.

  35. If they attached magnets to Buckley’s body and then coiled wires around his casket it would probably generate enough electricity to power New York City, what with the way the current staff at NRO must me making Buckley spin in his grave. Incidentally, the same could be said of Andrew Breitbart, I think.

  36. I let my subscription (subbed since the mid-eighties) to National Review lapse after President Obama was elected; despair had set in over the future of our republic.

    I have perused NRO on occasion. When they japped John Derbyshire and dismissed other conservatives, I was glad that I didn’t waste money on a subscription. The publication is nothing more than a RINO/GOPe mouthpiece.

    Given what has happened at NR, it would have been more appropriate if the magazine had accompanied Mr. Buckley to the grave.

  37. Certainly Nat’l Review is a legendary publication…but it’s not just they who are “bitchin-n-moanin without saying who they want”.
    Yes, it’s pretty clear they have favored Cruz, but this Conservative Review article, with this tone, at this time is all too suspect and guilty of the same.

    https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/01/next-president-must-flush-out-administrative-state

    p.s. Their topic is immigration and they’re basically saying “Trump can’t fight it” with Obama’s folks in place.

    I CALL BULL. Trump is the ONLY candidate…in my opinion, NOT work-and-wonk-with-the-other-side-Cruz…who can and would “fire” such impediments. He doesn’t take sh!t in business and, within constitutional checks and balances, I don’t see him changing his character to take any sh!t in government.

    As President, he has little to no need to “schmooze” anymore. America’s bureaucracy needs a bulldozer, and Trump is the construction/development guy.

  38. You know it comes to mind that it doesn’t really matter if they are RINO or GOPe. No matter who is in office they still work, drink, mock, emote, and live high on the hog and in the rarified air of the self appointed upper elite!

  39. Considering the actions of the GOPe in the last few years, They’ve re-defined conservative to mean Trump.
    And what the hell is wrong with making the trains run on time? The current batch of pols in DC can’t even get to the train on time.

  40. @ Gladys

    I couldn’t help it. I’m an illustrator by profession and I like to illustrate articles.
    It was too inviting not to do.
    Plus, I think he can withstand the image. (Him personally? Not so much. He is thin-skinned. But the image is not going to dissuade voters from voting for him.)

    I thought the image was amusing.

  42. Trump is winning because the republican party is so weak. The party keeps apologizing for their conservative base and too many rinos convince the voters they are conservatives. If you look at what is happening with the house and senate, the republicans are clearly not conservative. They are losers without a plan. That is why Trump can step in and fill the void. What a f#@*&*g disaster if he wins !!!!!

  43. imho Trump is in the same boat with Rubio, Bush as a clear establishment candidate, especially after Trump came out last week claiming to be making ‘deals’ with GOP establishment.

    it’s not ideological purity it’s deals with Establishment GOP and Establishment Democrats that is the clear and imminent danger to this Republic.

    imho Trump is using outrage at the condition Obama’s left America to huckster normally reasonable Americans.

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