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There are many reasons to oppose Trump. But those aren’t the reasons being cited.
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RUSH: The media has ceased their primary objective of destroying Republicans when it comes to Trump. And instead they're propping him up. And the reason they are doing it is the media landscape is changing so fast. It's becoming so compartmentalized, it's becoming so niche that attracting massive, big audiences anymore is not possible because there's just too much competition... They have found gold in Trump. Trump attracts and holds an audience like they can't... And it's reflected in the ratings and it's reflected in advertising revenue, but -- and this is Campbell Brown's point -- more importantly, the news media themselves love it because where they work now has audience again.
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At a rally Thursday night in Orange County, CA, Donald Trump was joined on stage by Jamiel Shaw, whose son was murdered by an illegal alien in 2008, and other members of the Remeberence Project.
"They're unbelievable, they've suffered," Trump said before bringing them up on the stage. "These are great people."
"We demand Americans first," Shaw said. "We don't care about illegal aliens." The person who murdered his son was an "illegal alien on his third gun charge."
"They all have a very similar story to tell," Trump said. "People that shouldn't have been here, people that should have never been allowed to come over the border and they come here like its nothing, they walk through it like its nothing," he said as the crowd chanted "build a wall."
"We're going to stop it and we're going to build a wall."
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This new ad will be running this weekend in Indiana blasting Donald Trump. And this time, you'll be petrified in the first sentence
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Another Congressmember who’s usually pretty reserved has come out to rip into former Speaker John Boehner for his “shameful” comments against Ted Cruz. And the dude literally says…
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Either this new poll is an outlier or there has been a major momentum shift.
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Trump’s crowd inflation isn't a new phenomenon.
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Democrats have a funny habit of screaming about how Republicans refuse to accept what they deem an overwhelming scientific consensus on one pillar of their poli
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At this point most people know that Trump was all for an 'Assault Weapons Ban' and waiting periods for firearms back in a book he "wrote" in 2000 - The Amer
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The Onion - America's Finest News Source
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A Clinton supporter says, “On my college campus, I might as well be Pat Buchanan.”
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Ted Cruz lied TEN Times in Under FIVE minutes to the Indiana voters during his Super Tuesday IV (April 26th, 2016) speech! Lyin' Ted at it again! Like us on ...
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Note: We've revised the "let's not divide the party" section of this blog to provide more context and to correct an implication that Rubio was directly making that point.
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The Redmond software giant says its position on the GOP convention hasn’t changed.
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You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.
— Matthew 5:13
The GOP establishment is on the verge of falling in line behind Donald Trump, perhaps the most comprehensively reprehensible person ever to seek national office. The pressure for conservative leaders and activists to follow suit will be overwhelming. There are, it seems, no good options. Oppose Trump and you’ll be blamed if he loses, as the bitter shell of the GOP snarls at those who facilitated its electoral collapse. If by some miracle he wins, you’ll be shut out from Trump’s administration, unable to influence him toward conservative policies.
So, yes, the options are all bad — in the short term. But broaden your view beyond the race against Hillary, and the choice becomes easier: Will you sacrifice your integrity, your moral fiber, and your intellect for the sake of a single election cycle? A person who spends the next several months defending the indefensible, trying to make sense of the senseless, and excusing the inexcusable stands to do permanent damage to his reputation and the reputation of the movement he represents.
#ad#Matthew 5:13, of course, refers to Christians — followers of Jesus — and not to political movements. But it speaks to a deep moral truth, one especially resonant to a political and cultural movement that is stocked with people who are conservative because they are Christian.
Pundits often speak of “political capital,” the combination of good will and raw power that wise politicians spend judiciously. In politics, a person can rebound even from a serious miscalculation, and renewed strength is often just one victory away. There are few things more thrilling to the media than political comebacks.
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But there is also moral capital, and it’s far more fragile than its political counterpart. Once it’s squandered, even a lifetime of good works is often not enough to rebuild moral authority. God forgives the repentant, surely, but it is still often prudent for people not to trust them. And who will trust the moral judgment of those who ultimately choose to devote weeks and months of their lives to making an aggressively ignorant serial liar the leader of the free world?
Trump is not the “best of bad options”; he is a cataclysm. If he defeats Hillary Clinton, his presidency will fail, and Republicans will suffer for a generation. If he loses, there’s a good chance he’ll turn the GOP into a shadow of its former self, a party reduced to holding only its safest seats and maintaining whatever political influence it still has through identity politics and clever gerrymandering.
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No matter what happens, bitter lessons abound. The cult of celebrity deeply harmed the conservative movement, rendering its base vulnerable to Trump’s demagoguery. Venomous rhetoric between various factions of the party made unity impossible. A phalanx of Republican politicians made promises they knew they couldn’t keep. The dysfunction is comprehensive, and it is difficult indeed to find a person with clean hands.
Will you sacrifice your integrity, your moral fiber, and your intellect for the sake of a single election cycle?
But we can start cleaning them now — with humility and resolve. The first step is to back Ted Cruz to the bitter end. Of course he’s not a perfect vehicle for the conservative movement; in many ways his own rhetoric has contributed to the present crisis. But there is a quantum difference between an informed, committed, and passionate conservative — whatever his faults — and a deceitful, Machiavellian liberal. Cruz is down to his Hail Mary pass, and conservatives should do all they can to help him succeed.
And if he fails, we should continue to clearly and consistently articulate our core convictions — and to reiterate as loudly and as often as possible all the reasons that both candidates will fail the American people. Neither Trumpism nor Clinton’s unprincipled progressivism will do anything except exacerbate America’s structural divisions, long-term security challenges, and looming fiscal crises. Partnering with either candidate is like boarding the Titanic despite knowing it will sink.
#related#Yes, the 2016 election is vital. But it’s not so vital as to throw away 2020 and beyond, doing immense damage to the integrity of a movement built to endure for decades. The Left knows all too well that nations are transformed through the “long march” rather than through a single election, and conservatives would do well to internalize the same lesson right away.
Our principles can and will endure as a major influence on American life — but only if we stand up for them with as much force and conviction as possible. Now is not the time to go weak in the knees.
— David French is an attorney, and a staff writer at National Review.
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The Left is anti-Semitic because Jews expose the falsity of leftist pieties.
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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/glenn-beck-mocks-donald-trump-covering-his-face-crushed-cheetos Right Wing Watch reports on the extreme rhetoric and ac...
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“First night of WV poll- Fiorina favorability under water, only about 10% say she makes them more likely to vote for Cruz, 35% less likely”
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Filmmaker Michael Moore has warned President Obama that riots will begin in the troubled Michigan city of Flint unless their poisoned water crisis is resolved.
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Carly Fiorina and Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton might not agree on much these days, but eight years ago the former Hewlett-Packard CEO had glowing words for the then-New York senator on the campaign trail.
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Megyn Kelly grills Sen. Ted Cruz on how he could unite the party if two-thirds of Republicans believe the candidate with the most delegates and most votes should be the nominee for president. "If you called someone up and say, should the person with the most votes win? Anyone goes, duh, yeah," Cruz said, disagreeing with the logic behind the question.
"I agree 60% to 70% will say yes to that as well. That's a poll question that's rigged. The Trumpsters pushes it out there because it suggests -- if you ask anyone, should the person with the most votes win? Of course. But his argument is he should be the nominee even though he can't win a majority," Cruz said.
Cruz repeated several times that Trump was not going to get 1,237 delegates before the convention in July.
"He's not going to. He is not going to. He's not going to get to 1,237," Cruz insisted.
MEGYN KELLY: I'm trying to ask you about something that is concerning to your supporters, your supporters, who understand how important Indiana is to your campaign. But the polls are showing that people, some 65% of Republicans, even people who support Ted Cruz, believe the person who enters the convention with the most delegates and the most votes should likely emerge as the nominee, even if it takes -- even if he doesn't have a majority. Right now as I mentioned he has 400 more delegates than you do, he's got 3.2 million more popular votes. He won 27 states, you won 11. So given that, how could you possibly unite this party coming out of a contested convention?
SEN. TED CRUZ: Let me answer it a couple of ways. Number one, nobody is going to get to 1,237. Donald is not getting there. I'm not getting there. Donald can't get there. It's why he's so desperately trying to convince everyone the race is over because he knows --
KELLY: He can get there if he wins in Indiana and does well in California.
CRUZ: But he's not going to. He is not going to. He's not going to get to 1,237. Even when folks try to do all sorts of math he falls short. We're going to a contested convention. Listen, the poll you cited, of course people say yes. If you called someone up and say, should the person with the most votes win? Anyone goes, duh, yeah. How about asking the question that is really the relevant question: should you have to earn a majority to be the nominee?
I agree 60% to 70% will say yes to that as well. That's a poll question that's rigged. The Trumpsters pushes it out there because it suggests -- if you ask anyone, should the person with the most votes win? Of course. But his argument is he should be the nominee even though he can't win a majority.
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BOSTON—Saying that such a dialogue was essential to the college’s academic mission, Trescott University president Kevin Abrams confirmed Monday that the school encourages a lively exchange of one idea.
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The city's investment in the casino mogul didn't go according to plan.