Pic Of The Moment: Prominent Republicans Line Up To Obliterate Their Own Frontrunner

[EarlG]

A YUGE number of conservatives just shredded Donald Trump in the National Review

Follow @demunderground

[Renew Deal]

1. The national review probably won him the election.

[Plucketeer]

2. Will wonders never cease???

WHO would've thought I could find myself singing in unison with such a group??????? Donald Trump - a Divider AND a Uniter! It's YOOGE!!!

[skepticscott]

3. What's even scarier, how many of the Republican candidates

would these quotes NOT apply to?

[Nay]

14. Yeah, exactly. Why is Trump so much worse? Isn't he the perfect

businessman to run the govt like a business, and fix everything??

[wordpix]

21. And he knows so well how the system of legalized bribery works

He's admitted he was a briber who got "what I asked for" in return. Quote may not be exact but very close to what he said.

[Funtatlaguy]

26. Bingo Bango bongo

As Trump would say

[hibbing]

4. No comments about his racism?

Interesting, I thought the former film critic turned right wing radio hack Medved's comment is funny. Republicans are ascribed those characteristics because they embody what the party is made up of.

Peace

[GeorgeGist]

7. Spot on.

[NCjack]

5. I thought Bill Kristol and his cronies had killed the subscription base of the NR. /nt

[CarrieLynne]

6. Dear Michael Medved:

Yes you are right - and the fact that he has a commanding lead for the party, and strong support among the people shows we have been right about it all along.

if republicans don't agree with trump - then its time to clean your own house cause it sure looks like you all do.

[Frank Cannon]

9. I laughed out loud when I read that Medved quote.

For all the reasons you stated.

How lacking in self-awareness can one person be?

[uhnope]

13. I believe his full name is Michael Lack of Self-Awareness Medved. nt

[czarjak]

8. Arsonists...

Bitching about the smoke. Again.

[Fritz Walter]

15. Outstanding metaphor!

I'm stealing it because my Dr. Frankenstein allegory hasn't gained any traction lately.

Thanks!

[MariaThinks]

10. imagine - even some republicans can be right once in a blue moon

[nxylas]

11. Conservatives have always disdained caesarism?

Wasn't it Bill Kristol who once wrote an op-ed column defending the Galactic Empire in Star Wars?

[uhnope]

12. I don't support any of those people or the GOP but maybe they can get it back to the party of IKE

We need Eisenhower republicans to save this country's lamentable two-party system. Or we need to officially abandon the two-party system.

[malthaussen]

16. Such ringing endorsements!

Those aren't slams, those are paens. Mr Trump is exactly the kind of person the GOP loves.

-- Mal

[Dr. Xavier]

17. Great post, but I must say that

all these pundits are being rather disingenuous, since they were all big fans of Ronnie Rayguns and the only difference between St. Ronnie and the Donald; is that Rayguns had a better stage presence, better scripts, and a much better dye job...

[tavernier]

18. Worse than Cruz or Jeb! or Rubio?

Probably not.
Awful, yes, but all that bluster is mostly just his ego wanting to beat everyone else. He would delegate and keep a low profile. Presidenting isn't really his passion, IMO.

[barbtries]

19. no shit

NOW they want to sound reasonable? fuck republicans.

[awoke_in_2003]

20. He is not a nasty characterization Democrats routinely ascribe to republicans...

he is exactly what the republican party is.

[BlueMTexpat]

22. True - the GOP is nastier, especially today's GOP.

They've been breaking the cardinal "Republican rule" since at least 1994, especially with the advent of Newt Gingrich on the national scene.

But these barbs are spot on. If anything, they understate the problem of Trump, all GOPer candidates, and the GOP in general.

On DU recently, gratuitous slurs and outright lies against any of our Dem candidates make this site look like a shadow Free Republic. I do not remember intra-party fighting being this nasty even in 2008.

Perhaps that is due to my ever more frequent "senior" moments, in this case also blissful. If I am remembering that inaccurately, please do not remind me of how nasty we were then.

But can we not aspire to do better in 2016?

[Solly Mack]

23. In other words, Trump is a typical republican.

[polynomial]

24. Americans like Trump because

Trump is going to change the whole paradigm of the Republican Party. This is exactly what half of America is encouraged to want, even if it means jamming up the Republican status quo.

The media is playing this game, the money gamblers are full throttle.

Imagine Trump elected, then through an executive order issues an economic initiative where it is obvious his supporters profiteer at the level of trillions of dollars.

Of course the Bush Nazi party tapped the system for several trillion in a phony war. However, the Bush Nazi Party should be before the Hague indicted for war crimes and torture, yet George W. Bush thinks he is a Van Gogh, and his brother Jeb should be the next president. The Republican Party leadership is preparing Trump for another round of profiteering, but of course the media should be drumming the idiot off stage.

If any candidate fits those parameters to be impeached before he is elected Trump fits perfectly. Praise be to the Republicans that control the Congress to impeach a media driven self-serving reprobate, an unprincipled person a rogue, degenerate which they are. Who’s next?

[heaven05]

25. this chump

Doesn't know his head from his ass in many areas of American culture. But he damn sure knows how to agitate his base of racists pigs and fellow traveler fascists that had been underground. If repubs let this clown become their nominee???? I won't be surprised. IF this clown somehow is let into the POTUS chair many, many Americans will applaud since they already support him.

I won't be shocked at all.

[libodem]

27. .

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/donald-trump-just-retweeted-a-white-supremacist-just-to-get-a-dig-on-jeb-bush/

[Paladin]

28. Too little, too late, Asshole Conservatives. (nt)

[DFW]

29. Helprin and Medved are full of it

"He doesn't know the Constitution, history, law, political philosophy, nuclear strategy, diplomacy, [or] defense."

So?? That didn't seem to stop the Republican Party from nominating and installing George W. Bush.

"Trump is the living, breathing, bellowing personification of all the nasty characteristics Democrats routinely ascribe to Republicans."

So?? That didn't hinder the Republican Party from nominating Richard Nixon three times for the presidency.

[red dog 1]

38. + 1

Not to defend Nixon, but at least he had some intelligence,
unlike Ronald Reagan, who couldn't put 3 words together without a teleprompter in front of him, and only became president because of 2 treasonous actions: "Debate-Gate" & "October Surprise"

[yurbud]

30. so Bill Kristol forgot he supported the Crawford Caligula?

to call Baby Bush a "two-bit ceasar" would be giving him too much credit for competence.

[stonecutter357]

31. K&R!

[yellowwoodII]

32. Bill Kristol

If Bill Kristol doesn't like him, maybe he's all right after all.

[pscot]

33. If I had to pick a side here

it would be Trump. Fuck PNAC.

[TBF]

34. Right? This is the reason folks like him -

because he is telling the established folks to go to hell. He's not the right answer but he has definitely struck a chord.

[yuiyoshida]

35. Its just Yuge!!!

Yuge!!! I say!!

[rladdi]

36. A commentator and his panel said on Fox News last night, that they will support any GOP candidate,

they just want a Republican in the white house.

[healthnut7]

37. I saw this in FB and had to share

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[red dog 1]

39. Excellent!

[red dog 1]

40. K&R...Thanks for posting, EarlG

[47of74]

41. The only thing the National Review is good for is toilet paper.

Even though they're speaking up against Der Trumpenführer that is still the case.

[yurbud]

42. so...none of these guys like Baby Bush? Anyone? Anyone?