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| The Odd Conservative Love Affair With Tulsi Gabbard |
| 2019-10-24 |
| It's Kurt Schlichter I think I know what the deal is with all the gushing adoration Tulsi Gabbard has somehow managed to wrangle from ordinarily sensible conservatives. Think of a regular guy walking down the hall in high school, and the head cheerleader passes by and says, "Hi." The dude’s going to think she’s awesome. Of course, just because she is polite doesn’t mean Regular Joe is ever going to take her to the prom. Tulsi gets Strange New Conservative Respect for several reasons, but the primary one is that she doesn’t seem to hate our guts. She is what an opponent should be ‐ an opponent, not an enemy. Let’s face it ‐ the mainstream Democrat Party hates our guts, and given its malignant druthers it would strip us of our First, Second, and probably Third Amendment rights in order to make sure that we never, ever have a say in our own governance again. Then, with us silenced and disarmed, it would take our money, corrupt our children and generally oppress us in ways that make today’s punitive straw bans look tame. If you don’t believe that a scary number of mainstream lefties want us Normals enslaved or dead, well, you’re either in denial or not on social media. Make no mistake ‐ Tulsi is not one of us conservatives, though the kind of leftism she embraces (which owes a lot to the socialism of Bernie Sanders) shares some superficial similarities to the populism that has swept the GOP base. In many ways, we share her critique of an inept, corrupt ruling caste eager to send non-elite citizens off to fight their endless, mismanaged wars. We also share a critique of Big Business as a crony capitalist simulacrum of free enterprise, basically a bunch of rich jerks sidling up to the leaders of both parties to repeatedly shaft us regular folks to pump up a few digits on their balance sheets. ...The Gabbard Left and the Trump Right share the conclusion that our elite sucks and that it has forfeited any moral authority to lead our country, but the similarity ends there. She is not conservative and is not traditional. Just because she has doubts about offing babies in the third trimester, as opposed to supporting abortion until high school graduation, does not make her pro-life. She would take your guns, she would take your money, and she would generally make Barack Obama look like William F. Buckley. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #16 Stopping unnecessary wars is good. Going to war with the American public, not so good. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-10-24 20:40 |
| #15 She's uneducated, and none too swift. Have you ever met anyone who thinks cowardly is an adverb? Why would she make a trip to meet Assad, for cryin out loud? She keeps repeating "regime change war" because she hasn't given her worldview any thought. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-10-24 19:42 |
| #14 A lovable leftist is right there along side a pettable poisonous snake and a cuddly scorpion. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-10-24 19:35 |
| #13 Tulsi's funding is Hindu Nationalist based and she is a strong Green New Deal proponent |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-10-24 18:43 |
| #12 Laura Loomer on Tulsi Gabbard Read the whole thing, as they say. It'd be nice if people on the right were less susceptible to pretty (for a politician) faces and empty "badass" rhetoric, but I guess the Tulsi and Nimrata fans gotta squee. Sad, really. I thought the right were the serious, substantive ones. Use Tulsi to screw with the left if you can, but don't let her fool you. |
| Posted by: charger 2019-10-24 17:52 |
| #11 and believes in our constitution Only as it suits her, though. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2019-10-24 14:20 |
| #10 I don't agree with her on most anything. But she stands up, is accountable for her beliefs, and believes in our constitution. She id probably one of what the democrat party should look like. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2019-10-24 13:18 |
| #9 Enemy of my enemy and all. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-10-24 11:26 |
| #8 Sorry. (Actually NOT sorry) Anti 2A is off my table. Full stop. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-10-24 11:23 |
| #7 "Chinks"? Seriously? And no, America will be fine without intervening in every war around the planet. We can develop ourselves instead of spending ourselves broke in idiotic, neverending conflicts. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2019-10-24 10:27 |
| #6 she would generally make Barack Obama look like William F. Buckley Not to mention the sudden wave of cults and hindu hippies that would sweep what is left of American identity and install $ billion micro fiefdoms around the country. Godmen and dhoti clad lunatics would rake in millions. And the 'erb brand of pacifism would reduce America to a bit player while chinks and globalists continued rolled on.  |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-10-24 09:54 |
| #5 Hillary Clinton Accidentally Posts Condolences For Tulsi Gabbard's Suicide One Day Early |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-10-24 09:41 |
| #4 She's a soldier, she fought back against Hillary, she's attractive. Given the rest of the Dems that's enough. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2019-10-24 09:00 |
| #3 We should not want the left to be honorable or trustworthy. What we should want is for the electorate to see them as the liars, poltroons and mountebanks they are. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-10-24 07:26 |
| #2 She doesn't try and pretend what her principles are. i.e. she'll do what she says she'll do. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-10-24 02:36 |
| #1 The Gabbard Left and the Trump Right share the conclusion that our elite sucks and that it has forfeited any moral authority to lead our country = the conviction that our institutions in these fools' hands have become a complete Shitshow. Insurrections are made of such convictions. Don't need to agree on the post-revolutionary order to agree that the reigning uniparty is a shitshow and that we need to bring the curtain down, as fast as possible. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-10-24 02:06 |