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| 2018-04-28 |
| Never Trumpers were so clever two springs ago. Their plan was to sabotage Donald Trump's hard-won nomination. They would drink Chardonnay on Election Night, and re-take a shamed Republican Partythe next day. Now they are struggling to have their Fake Conservative views published. And they blubber on and on about it. Kevin D. Williamson whined in the Weekly Standard earlier about a magazine not publishing a column he had written -- for free. Hilarious. Dude, your work is less than worthless to them. The latest is the story of layoffs at RedState because its owner isn't making money, In the wake of Trump's Reagan-level success as president, columns promoting the Mueller witch hunt are not attracting legions of conservative readers. Son of a gun. Erick Erickson from his spot in Never Trump exile, whined that the owner is picking and choosing who it wants to keep. "My understanding from the writers is that there were two contracts, one more expensive than the other. Most of those on the expensive contracts were tossed, though some very good ones will stay. Of those under the cheaper contracts, it seems the dividing line was loyalty to the President. In fact, among those under the expensive contracts, I'm aware of some writers having near equal traffic generation, and those insufficiently loyal to the President were fired," Erickson wrote. That's a nice liberal way of spinning non-conservative as "insufficiently loyal to the president." Trump is the most conservative president since Reagan. If you are not on the Trump Train, then you are not conservative. It is as simple as that. I don't expect blind loyalty to the president, but I do expect support. He earned it. Trump has appointed judges to the right of Bush choices, he has cut corporate taxes, he has cut personal taxes, he has rolled back onerous regulations, and he has de-nuked North Korea. Those are just the biggest of the big things that he has done as president. Too many RedStaters refused to give him credit. On March 15, Susan Wright at RedState wrote, "Protectionism, Bowling Balls and Every Crazy Thing Trump Said at a Recent Fundraising Event." Gee, I wonder why conservatives shun the site. I can get this sort of garbage from the Washington Post. She led with this: "It was supposed to be a fundraising speech. It spiraled into a seething pit of crazy. Probably the craziest of all the things President Trump boasted of in a 30-minute speech in Missouri on Wednesday was that he makes up facts. That’s right: He admitted that he makes up things and then presses those made-up facts as real." In fact, in the next paragraph, Wright admitted she lifted this from the Post, "The Washington Post covered Trump’s tale of insisting that there was a trade deficit with Canada, while speaking to Justin Trudeau." There is nothing wrong with using news stories to explain events. That is the mainstay of blogging. And there is nothing wrong with knocking the president. The problem is being fake about it and making false claims to being conservative. Wright is not a conservative. She is a Jennifer Rubin wannabe. I imagine there are others at the site who want an Ana Navarro gig on CNN as well. Now they can pursue those dreams, tiny as they are. The owner of RedState is cutting personnel, which means bye-bye to its Counterfeit Conservatives. Why isn't this a Trump Effect entry? Because RedState is repenting by driving the phonies from its site. The purification (some would say fumigation) protects RedState from the tragedy that befalls so many of those who foolishly feuded with The Donald. Erickson is offering them space at his Fake Conservative site. Maybe Williamson should look into that. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #6 Everybody wants a Stainless Steel Rice Bowl. Do whatever you want and never bear any consequences. Childish. |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-04-28 21:18 |
| #5 neo con is a fancy word for new liberal |
| Posted by: 746 2018-04-28 13:05 |
| #4 About the main article... I gotta say, I can see what he's trying to say, but it can be used to describe the same technique the (ahem, Mr. Morini to the white courtesy phone, please) chickenforkers plan to use against us in the future. The same corporations who demand net neutrality from everyone else are going to suddenly become all propertarian and shit. Or already have. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-04-28 10:10 |
| #3 Eh, he was a lot worse than Nixon. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-04-28 10:06 |
| #2 Counterfeit Conservatives Masks are dropping all over the place. Make that another Trump accomplishment. If you are a card carrying member of the Country Club Chamber of Commerce crowd, you probably are not a conservative. I've always said Bush II was probably to best liberal president in the last 50 years. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-04-28 07:59 |
| #1 Wright is not a conservative. She is a Jennifer Rubin wannabe. Not exactly a high bar to clear, is it? |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-04-28 07:08 |