The conservatives claim President Obama. What is true is that the color of his skin does indeed offend many of the Trump voters. But the President is hardly culpable for this.
The Vichy Republicans continue to cover themselves in glory:
"This week, the Republican Party wrapped itself in the white flag."
"Donald Trump has won enough delegates to to guarantee that he will clinch the GOP nomination. And one of his fiercest opponents, Marco Rubio, cozied up to him, almost begging for a chance to speak at the GOP convention — even after Trump attacked the party’s most prominent Latina."
"While a few stray #NeverTrumpers can be heard in the distance, complaining that the self-proclaimed billionaire “makes George Wallace look like Churchill” and vowing to never ever vote for a candidate who is the choice of pretty much any strutting online anti-Semite you can find, resistance is futile."
http://www.nationalmemo.com/definitive-list-blame-nomination-donald-trump/?utm_source=National+Memo+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=fe88f120ea-Morning_Memo_5_30_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8f8e3f883b-fe88f120ea-194808597
Rubio's position seems to be this: Trump is a con artist who makes racist appeals that Rubio agrees are unfortunate. But Trump is not Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton will continue with Obamacare.
We'd rather bring back the gas ovens-as some of Trump's supporters want to do based on their own words-than have Obamacare.
Meanwhile Trump has recently revealed that he thinks choosing a woman or minority candidate would be pandering. To avoid being accused of pandering, he's going with a white male.
So while we have all the speculation of a Rubio VP, Trump has already ruled it out: after all, a Rubio VP would be pandering.
Who is to blame for Donald Trump? I'd blame two entities first and foremost.
1. The Beltway media who insists on playing the false equivalence game. For years I joked that if the GOP said the Holocaust never happened and the Dems said it did, the media would also lecture the Dems to just be a little more reasonable and compromise more.
And now we have a guy who probably does think that Holocaust was a hoax-he thinks everything including the California drought and global warming is made up-and lo and behold, the media is more upset over Hillary's emails or razzing her about being 'unlikable' than holding the Neo Nazi candidate to account.
2. But most of all, the blame goes to the Republican party itself. When you deny reality and play dog whistle politics for years, you can't be shocked someone like Trump would clear the field.
As horrendous a candidate as Trump is, he still seemed a breath of fresh air next to their real candidates.
Why should the GOP voters vote for a dog whistle when they can vote for the bullhorn?
As usual, however, the Beltway is wholly clueless:
"The GOP is now officially Trump’s party. Yet at the same time, “Very Serious People” want us to absolve the GOP for delivering us a candidate whose great public accomplishments include getting rid of the talent portion of beauty pageants, using racism to undermine America’s first black president, and winning a major party’s nomination by vowing to ban 1.6 billion people from entering the country."
"Bloomberg’s Megan McArdle tells us not to blame the Republican party for Trump, rejecting the notion that this insecure conman is a “monster that Republican leaders created” and now “broken free of its chains and was hell bent on destroying its former master.”
"McArdle seems to reject the notion that conservatives should be responsible for the ideas they’ve advanced over the past 50 years, because voters ultimately ignored the “horrified pleading of conservative leaders and intellectuals” and backed Trump anyway. As if a few months of caution from the “establishment,” which conservatives have been training primary voters to reject since the inception of the movement, was supposed to be more effective than generations of feeding voters carefully coded messages designed to stir up racial and religious resentment.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/definitive-list-blame-nomination-donald-trump/?utm_source=National+Memo+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=fe88f120ea-Morning_Memo_5_30_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8f8e3f883b-fe88f120ea-194808597
Yeah, Megan McArdle. What ineffective 'horrified pleading.' This horrified pleading amounts to: 'Stop making bullhorn racist appeals and go back to the dog whistle racist appeals.'
Meanwhile, Ms McArdle seems no longer horrified. She now seems much more horrified over Hillary Clinton's emails than the spectre of a Donald Trump Presidency.
Much of this 'horrified pleading' has gone out the window now that Trump is President. You know, he's not fit to be President-unless the choice is Hillary Clinton who would continue Obamacare.'
And conservatives like Ms. McArdle wonder why their horrified pleading was so ineffective.
At least those like Jennifer Rubin, Ben Howe and some writers at the National Review and RedState are worthy of some respect. They remain horrified now that Trump is the GOP nominee.
Most like McArdle has forfeited what credibility they ever had.
Trump hasn't expanded the GOP, he has exposed it along with the complicit Beltway media.
The Vichy Republicans continue to cover themselves in glory:
"This week, the Republican Party wrapped itself in the white flag."
"Donald Trump has won enough delegates to to guarantee that he will clinch the GOP nomination. And one of his fiercest opponents, Marco Rubio, cozied up to him, almost begging for a chance to speak at the GOP convention — even after Trump attacked the party’s most prominent Latina."
"While a few stray #NeverTrumpers can be heard in the distance, complaining that the self-proclaimed billionaire “makes George Wallace look like Churchill” and vowing to never ever vote for a candidate who is the choice of pretty much any strutting online anti-Semite you can find, resistance is futile."
http://www.nationalmemo.com/definitive-list-blame-nomination-donald-trump/?utm_source=National+Memo+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=fe88f120ea-Morning_Memo_5_30_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8f8e3f883b-fe88f120ea-194808597
Rubio's position seems to be this: Trump is a con artist who makes racist appeals that Rubio agrees are unfortunate. But Trump is not Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton will continue with Obamacare.
We'd rather bring back the gas ovens-as some of Trump's supporters want to do based on their own words-than have Obamacare.
Meanwhile Trump has recently revealed that he thinks choosing a woman or minority candidate would be pandering. To avoid being accused of pandering, he's going with a white male.
So while we have all the speculation of a Rubio VP, Trump has already ruled it out: after all, a Rubio VP would be pandering.
Who is to blame for Donald Trump? I'd blame two entities first and foremost.
1. The Beltway media who insists on playing the false equivalence game. For years I joked that if the GOP said the Holocaust never happened and the Dems said it did, the media would also lecture the Dems to just be a little more reasonable and compromise more.
And now we have a guy who probably does think that Holocaust was a hoax-he thinks everything including the California drought and global warming is made up-and lo and behold, the media is more upset over Hillary's emails or razzing her about being 'unlikable' than holding the Neo Nazi candidate to account.
2. But most of all, the blame goes to the Republican party itself. When you deny reality and play dog whistle politics for years, you can't be shocked someone like Trump would clear the field.
As horrendous a candidate as Trump is, he still seemed a breath of fresh air next to their real candidates.
Why should the GOP voters vote for a dog whistle when they can vote for the bullhorn?
As usual, however, the Beltway is wholly clueless:
"The GOP is now officially Trump’s party. Yet at the same time, “Very Serious People” want us to absolve the GOP for delivering us a candidate whose great public accomplishments include getting rid of the talent portion of beauty pageants, using racism to undermine America’s first black president, and winning a major party’s nomination by vowing to ban 1.6 billion people from entering the country."
"Bloomberg’s Megan McArdle tells us not to blame the Republican party for Trump, rejecting the notion that this insecure conman is a “monster that Republican leaders created” and now “broken free of its chains and was hell bent on destroying its former master.”
"McArdle seems to reject the notion that conservatives should be responsible for the ideas they’ve advanced over the past 50 years, because voters ultimately ignored the “horrified pleading of conservative leaders and intellectuals” and backed Trump anyway. As if a few months of caution from the “establishment,” which conservatives have been training primary voters to reject since the inception of the movement, was supposed to be more effective than generations of feeding voters carefully coded messages designed to stir up racial and religious resentment.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/definitive-list-blame-nomination-donald-trump/?utm_source=National+Memo+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=fe88f120ea-Morning_Memo_5_30_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8f8e3f883b-fe88f120ea-194808597
Yeah, Megan McArdle. What ineffective 'horrified pleading.' This horrified pleading amounts to: 'Stop making bullhorn racist appeals and go back to the dog whistle racist appeals.'
Meanwhile, Ms McArdle seems no longer horrified. She now seems much more horrified over Hillary Clinton's emails than the spectre of a Donald Trump Presidency.
Much of this 'horrified pleading' has gone out the window now that Trump is President. You know, he's not fit to be President-unless the choice is Hillary Clinton who would continue Obamacare.'
And conservatives like Ms. McArdle wonder why their horrified pleading was so ineffective.
At least those like Jennifer Rubin, Ben Howe and some writers at the National Review and RedState are worthy of some respect. They remain horrified now that Trump is the GOP nominee.
Most like McArdle has forfeited what credibility they ever had.
Trump hasn't expanded the GOP, he has exposed it along with the complicit Beltway media.
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