An Inconvenient Trump: Republicans Are
Living an Enormous Lie
The American Spectator,
by
Melissa Mackenzie
Original Article
Posted By: RubiconDan,
8/27/2023 11:58:33 AM
The Republican primary debate charade, hosted by a hapless Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, revealed two things: Vivek Ramaswamy is a rising star, and Donald Trump dominated as the elephant not in the room. The Democrats and the media run a constant clown show, but the Republicans play along as useless puppets, willfully participating in a system designed to destroy them. The Republican party is allowing itself to be rigged by playing by the rules of an old system that no longer exists. The Democrats, bureaucracy, and media are vicious apparatchiks. They are a dirty and obvious enemy who clearly need to be fought.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
idahoskook 8/27/2023 12:04:16 PM (No. 1543552)
He’s too perfect. He say’s everything we want to hear. After listening to him for the first time I thought; “ wow,…..what a great VP for Trump.” But now I’m convinced that he’s a TROJAN HORSE.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
weirdone 8/27/2023 12:04:38 PM (No. 1543553)
Never thought I would live to see the day that an ignorant apathetic American population would willingly, adopt and elect, a government dedicated to the following proposition.
We the People of the United States, in Order to destroy a perfect Union, forego Justice, accept domestic violence, defund the common defense, promote the general Welfare State and secure perpetual debt to ourselves and our Posterity, do relinquish and destroy the Constitution for the United States of America.
We are now ruled, as opposed to governed, by a senile President and a radical Socialist Congress that has ignored the Constitution and rules by Executive order while the feckless Republicans sit by and do nothing but talk.
The time has come to defund the government. Those of us paying the bills must stand up and take back our country, if it is not already too late.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Venturer 8/27/2023 12:06:21 PM (No. 1543558)
They definitely are a common bunch of politicians and apparatchiks, but I see no way to stop them.
The Republican part politicians are only interested in keeping their jobs, and not making any waves they are next to useless.
We need a strong party and what we have is a weak sister of 2 or 3 real patriots and the rest just going long for their monthly stipend, and who really belong in the other party,
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Quigley 8/27/2023 12:14:22 PM (No. 1543566)
There is no republican party if it can be arrested and censored.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 8/27/2023 12:17:51 PM (No. 1543570)
#2, I definitely want to defund the Ukrainian government at the very least.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Italiano 8/27/2023 12:26:56 PM (No. 1543577)
FTA: "Speaking of Pence, he came off as a constipated church lady."
Now THAT'S the description that I've been struggling to come up with. Well played, Melissa.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Imright 8/27/2023 12:33:33 PM (No. 1543585)
Great read. Thanks for posting.
Here's an excerpt: ~~ "Step outside the debate and see it for what it really is: a sideshow to mollify the wicked and stupid. Not one of these candidates can win the nomination, and should the powers that be succeed in jailing or killing Donald Trump, not one can win the presidency. And if, by some random “chance,” a Republican does win the presidency, he or she will be a pleasing suit presiding over nothing and serving at the pleasure of masters greater than any one of them." ~~
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Safari Man 8/27/2023 1:10:51 PM (No. 1543614)
If you read one article this week, make it this one. This is both energizing and depressing. It’s good to know someone else sees and feels things the way I do. But it’s depressing to think all the energy the GOP is marshaling through the establishment will only spur the dimocrats further.
I dont see How we get out of this situation without it getting guhly, but too many are comfortable being boiled slowly.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Safari Man 8/27/2023 1:12:13 PM (No. 1543617)
#8. Guhly? Maybe you meant fugly?
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Wow! She has more stones than all the R “leaders”; debate was meaningless drivel and trivia. As Seinfeld would say, yada,yada,yada, Nothing of value, eyewash, bread and circuses without the Biden cost of bread.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 8/27/2023 2:48:23 PM (No. 1543686)
And ASA!, the idiot, is on the Sunday shows trashing Republicans, too dim witted to understand how he’s being used.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/27/2023 3:37:10 PM (No. 1543721)
So, I should vote for Ramaswamy because he says he will stand up to the people who are persecuting Trump and flouting the rule of law. I just don't believe him. I have a better idea. Vote for Trump and I know he will take the fight to them.
Sorry. I don't have a good feeling about Vivek Ramaswamy. I don't have a good feeling about any of them. I wanted one of them to stand out as an alternative to Trump and none of them have. They are all about business as usual while the nation implodes.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
rememberwhen 8/27/2023 3:42:59 PM (No. 1543729)
Sad but all too true.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
pmcclure 8/27/2023 4:21:36 PM (No. 1543763)
The 2024 "election" will dwarf the dishonesty and evil of previous voting. Our country is in a power dive into hell.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
LittleRedHen1 8/27/2023 4:23:50 PM (No. 1543767)
Hat tip to #1 and #12. A successful deception requires knowledge of the truth. He speaks a truth and we are deceived into thinking he speaks all the truth.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Hazymac 8/27/2023 4:28:53 PM (No. 1543773)
Bad link
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Kitty Myers 8/28/2023 7:40:56 AM (No. 1544156)
The article is behind a paywall.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
felixcat 8/28/2023 8:24:46 AM (No. 1544183)
I am voting a third time for Donald Trump and not the Republican Party.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
cobieone 8/28/2023 8:28:19 AM (No. 1544185)
This is a great article!! Couldn't have said it better myself. The Republicans will not even speak of the most important issues facing America. Rush Limbaugh warned for years that the Left is trying to make conservatism illegal. The Left has overtaken the Dem party and is persecuting, prosecuting, and jailing their opposition. Where are our Republican leaders??? Certainly not on that debate stage.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
essgee1952 8/28/2023 8:29:48 AM (No. 1544186)
The OP seems to have missed the point entirely: this isn't about the debate.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Clinger 8/28/2023 8:42:30 AM (No. 1544191)
I'm still waiting for the candidate that promises to not offer solutions through the use of powers that the federal government shouldn't have to begin with under the constitution. I guess the last one with that message was Reagan.
And how do we sort out someone who tells us what we want to hear from someone who really believes in restoring the constitutional republic? Even those from the inside with a record of supporting constitutional causes may have been pandering to us with full knowledge that they'd be overwhelmed by the swamp and there was no real risk to the swamp from allowing them to pander to our votes. And with outsiders all we have is what they say they would do and how they have managed their personal lives. With as little as we have to go on with outsiders I'd have to say any association with he likes of Soros is a knockout punch.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
keep_right 8/28/2023 9:01:22 AM (No. 1544206)
And who benefits by the bashing of the Republican party? Enemy identification is important when you're in a war, and we are! Trump himself recognizes that the RNC is not a problem for him. (Greg Kelly interview on Newsmax). It's primary season. By what means should anyone deny a potential candidate from throwing their hat in the ring? Remember people that we've got get the Dems OUT of the White House. And the replacement would have to be a REPUBLICAN! If current projections continue, it's likely that President Trump will be the nominee and will need votes to win. If he doesn't hate on the RNC, why should you?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
3XALADY 8/28/2023 9:14:54 AM (No. 1544215)
#19 Dershowitz doesn't agree with you. He said a future Republican president would be one of those on the stage. Lord help us.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
FormerDem 8/28/2023 9:18:12 AM (No. 1544217)
fta: "They can talk of the border. They can pontificate about the world-changing necessity of making Ukraine secure. T... How about addressing the criminalization of free speech? How about addressing the conditions of Jan. 6 defendants? How about addressing using the justice system to bankrupt and persecute political enemies? How about addressing the raw, unchecked power being thrown around by the Biden administration?" great article
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Geoman 8/28/2023 10:16:21 AM (No. 1544265)
FTA: "Donald Trump is not the Republican front runner. He’s the presumptive nominee."
#22 asks a great question, one that never seems to be addressed, much less answered, by GOP detractors who profess something more akin to fealty than simple loyalty to Trump. Asked perhaps another way, why do so many of Trump's most ardent supporters and writers, such as Sundance and the GWP's Hoft brothers outdo one another in trashing Republicans and the GOP, while never acknowledging that Trump is by far the most popular GOP candidate for president? Is Trump not near as smart as his supporters here on L.com, or is he simply a crass mercenary, using the GOP as a hooker to get what he wants, before being unceremoniously discarded? If he's not really a Republican, despite his party affiliation and his third run at the GOP nomination, does that make him the ultimate RINO? I've also noticed that the RINO epithet isn't tossed out very much these days, as it seems that all Republicans are now considered by Trump's faithful supporters as cowardly and/or corrupt. I honestly cannot follow the logic here, relative to Trump and the GOP, and unfortunately Trump himself, has yet to clarify, yet he keeps chugging along, gaining even more ground as the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee for the '24 elections.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Zigrid 8/28/2023 10:55:45 AM (No. 1544294)
I agree poster #2..it's time to defund the government by those of US who pay for it....if congress won't defund..which they have the power to do...then WE must take action...don't pay your taxes...don't shop for a month...stop the monthly automatic with/holding...don't travel and use gasoline....a national strike...like the trucker's strike would be good...WE need no leaders...WE can do it ourselves...less chance for the union dudes to push their weight around....
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/28/2023 11:44:08 AM (No. 1544342)
Vivek is a falling meteorite who hasn't been around long enough to begin to burn yet. Give him a little more time.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 8/28/2023 12:34:36 PM (No. 1544398)
#25 asks, "...why do...Sundance and the GWP's Hoft brothers outdo one another in trashing Republicans and the GOP, while never acknowledging that Trump is by far the most popular GOP candidate for president? ... If he's (Trump) not really a Republican, despite his party affiliation and his third run at the GOP nomination, does that make him the ultimate RINO?"
Everyone knows independent runs are destined for failure. Donald Trump needed to align with one of the major parties for the registration, primary voting, and campaign infrastructure. The RNC's public persona of conservationism was the only choice. Essentially Trump is in the process of executing a hostile takeover of the RNC. Far from being a RINO, President Trump is the truest Republican in the Republican Party.
I trust our lion and am willing to wait to see how his plans play out. We need to remember that in his first administration he did not have carte-blanche on his appointments; he needed Mitch to get approvals through the Senate. We are in a fight for the life of our Republic, for the life our citizens as we have known it for the last 250 years. We can go down the road to full communism, or we can follow the lead of an imperfect man who loves this country with his whole mind, body and soul.
MAGA REVENGE - TRUMP 2024
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
crashnburn 8/28/2023 12:55:21 PM (No. 1544426)
I purposely didn’t watch the “Republican “ debate because I figured it was just another episode of The Biggest Loser. Seems I was right.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/28/2023 2:08:17 PM (No. 1544491)
If the left, the dims, the rinos, the msm, the deep state, the globalists, the chicoms, the russkies, the iranians, and Klaus et al just went ahead and let Trump win in 2020, he would be down to just seventeen months left on his second term. These characters could today be alreadt planning their permanent coup de état for November 2024 and beyond. Meanwhile, they could also be in the planning stages of undoing all of Trump's accomplishments post- 2024. And both political parties would be morally and spiritually bankrupt same as they are today.
But silly practical me. No wonder I'm not in politics.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Anti-DemocRAT 8/28/2023 4:43:26 PM (No. 1544623)
National strike
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/28/2023 6:28:45 PM (No. 1544694)
#23, Dershowitz knows all about the corruption and insanity of the democrats yet he still votes for them.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
ragu 8/29/2023 2:20:16 PM (No. 1545281)
Just a reminder, the American voters did not vote for the government (Biden regime) we have now. It was forced on us by fraud, the press and traitorous Republicans (RINOS) like Kemp etc.
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This is a fantastic summary of the hapless Republican debate. However, the author missed how the Republican party denied Larry Elder a national stage to confront the Ruling Elite Dem/Rep Narrative.