National Review aims to take down Trump

[ErikJ]

Last edited Thu Jan 21, 2016, 11:28 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: Politico



For months, Republican leaders have worried about how to stop 2016 frontrunner Donald Trump. Now, one of the conservative movement’s most influential publications is taking matters into its own hands.

National Review is dedicating a special issue of its magazine, one week before the Iowa caucuses, to stopping Trump. “Against Trump,” blares the magazine cover. Inside, a blistering editorial questions Trump's commitment to conservatism, warning voters that backing him is tantamount to allowing the conservative movement to have “fallen in behind a huckster.”

"Trump is a philosophically unmoored political opportunist who would trash the broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP in favor of a free-floating populism with strong-man overtones,” the editorial reads.

And that’s just the start.
The National Review issue features anti-Trump essays from more than 20 conservative thinkers, leaders and commentators spanning the GOP’s ideological spectrum from David Boaz, executive vice president of the libertarian-infused Cato Institute, to William Kristol, the hawkish editor of the Weekly Standard, to David McIntosh, president of the Club for Growth. All call for Republicans to nominate someone other than Trump.

“This is the time to mobilize,” said National Review editor Rich Lowry, who is also a weekly opinion columnist at POLITICO. “The establishment is AWOL, or even worse, so it’s up to people who really believe in these ideas and principles, for whom they’re not just talking points or positions of convenience, to set out the marker.”

Although Trump has dominated national presidential polls since last summer, he has been subjected to relatively minor attacks on the airwaves. Instead, the more traditional candidates have turned into a circular firing squad shooting at each other, especially anyone who emerges as a possible top Trump alternative. The campaigns and super PACs supporting Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush and Chris Christie have aired millions in ads slamming one another. (The super PAC supporting John Kasich has been the notable exception in targeting Trump.)



Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/trump-nationalreview-218079#ixzz3xw9XclB7

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Just saw this on Megyn Kelly who had panel of establishment cons trashing Trump supporting Cruz. lol.

[PSPS]

1. I don't think any of Trump's supporters have ever heard of National Review.

Also, I don't think any of them would comprehend it if they were to read it. "philosophically unmoored?" "broad conservative ideological consensus?" Please. These people can't even spell.

[roguevalley]

11. this is only going to make his support stronger. these

dilettantes are so full of it. no one cares. You made this happen with 40 years of fascism so eat it already and die.

[leftynyc]

15. The National Review fed the

teabagger madness as much as any other "conservative" outlet. They created this monster. As much as I dislike Trump, I LOATHE Cruz and am really enjoying watching donnie take that cretin down. He actually thought that if he played nice, trump would leave him be - just shows he's too much of a schmuck to be President. Oh yes, I'm enjoying what's happening to cruz very much. I do think donnie will be harder to beat - Americans are enthralled with celebrity - but as NYer, I know there is a dumptruck of dirt waiting to be poured on him that the cons were too cowardly to use.

[kimbutgar]

2. The words in the national review are too big for the tennis shoe republicans who support trump.

[Fozzledick]

3. Warning against "allowing the conservative movement to have “fallen in behind a huckster.” " ?

Yeah, I think they're about 35 years too late.

[olddad56]

8. It should read " fallen to a huckster outside the club of good ol' hucksters" ...

The GOP has gone overboard in the dumb-ing down of their voters.

[Maeve]

23. And the first one up is Glenn Beck!

I just tried to read the article and gave up after realizing the people calling Trump crazy are...well, crazy themselves. Maybe there are people with gravitas down in the list, but...if this is the best they can do, they are well and truly screwed.

[catnhatnh]

4. If it works

they still won't have enough time for an issue opposing Cruz...

[Skittles]

5. William Kristol

[hibbing]

10. Michael Medved....snicker

Former film critic turned into right wing radio hack to fill another few hours of 24/7 right wing radio.


Peace

[yellowcanine]

22. Glenn Beck. William Buckley must be turning over in his grave.

Buckley, for all of his faults, had no illusions about the dangers of the John Birchers, of whom Glenn Beck is the 21 century reincarnation.

[First Speaker]

6. Fuck the National Review...

...they've spent 60 years building up the right-wing monster, supporting every swinishness along the way--Right-to-Life, the Southern Strategy, Neocons, you name it...now the chickens have come home to roost, and they don't seem to appreciate the irony...

[diane in sf]

7. Republican voters largely don't read, they watch Fox and listen to wingnut am radio

While commuting to the three jobs they need to hold down to survive. So I doubt all the vapors and bloviating coming from the National review will have much effect on most of them.

[MosheFeingold]

19. About half the people on list are wingnut radio

Mark Levin (who is smart, but wrong like Cruz)
Beck (who is like a gentile version of Michael Savage -- somewhat crazy)

Etc.

Trump is a loudmouth blowhard but he's not remotely a true-believer conservative like Cruz, which is a good thing. Cruz would be extremely destructive to everything we've accomplished in the last 80 years.

Trump will be all about Trump.

Best of all, Trump is hated by the mushy-middle, so that means Bernie (yes, Bernie) will be President.

[6000eliot]

9. Didn't they create him?

[The Second Stone]

12. Frankenstein's Monster

It's Alive!!!

Really, he's just Ronnie Reagan without the filters and dependence on party structure. He's going to wipe out the opposition in his party. I just hope that Sen. Sanders can beat him. Or Sec. Clinton.

The establishment GOP types see enough danger from him to their brand that they would rather lose than have him in charge.

[LibDemAlways]

13. Trump voters don't give a flying fuck about

The National Review. This is laughable and reeks of desperation.

[Eugene]

14. National Review magazine punished after telling conservatives to shun Trump

Source: Reuters

National Review magazine punished after telling conservatives to shun Trump

Reuters
Friday 22 January 2016 06.35 GMT

An influential conservative magazine published an editorial on Thursday urging Republicans to rally against the frontrunning presidential candidate Donald Trump, with Iowa poised to begin the search for a 2016 nominee in 10 days.

National Review, a New York-based magazine founded in 1955 by famed conservative thinker William F Buckley Jr, drew heavy scorn from Trump, on Twitter and at a Las Vegas news conference, for its issue entitled: “Against Trump”.

“Trump is a philosophically unmoored political opportunist who would trash the broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP [Republican Party] in favor of a free-floating populism with strong-man overtones,” National Review said.

But within hours of the publication the magazine revealed it had felt the consequences of its strident position – it was pulled as one of the moderators of a debate with Republican candidates.

Its publisher Jack Fowler wrote that it had been “disinvited” by the Republican National Committee from the debate which was to be held on 26 February.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/22/national-review-magazine-punished-after-telling-conservatives-to-shun-trump

[NBachers]

16. National Review fades into oblivion

[tanyev]

17. Oh, good. I just received my order of popped sorghum kernels yesterday.

[Crepuscular]

18. Meh

the National Review is not exactly a target publication for the Trump demographic.

Now if the National Enquirer came out against him, that might have some traction!........

[leftyladyfrommo]

20. The National Enquirer has run headlines about him.

Saw it at the nearest grocery store. I didn't read it so I don't know if they like him or not.

Now that you mention it, I think they tried to show him as a big family man. Well, he does have a big family. From several marriages.

[KingCharlemagne]

24. The family that plays together stays together! :) - nt

[geek tragedy]

21. Lol, like Trump voters read National Review. Or read at all. nt