{"id":82996,"date":"2015-12-22T20:39:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T04:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=82996"},"modified":"2015-12-22T20:46:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T04:46:47","slug":"conservative-pundit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=82996","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Pundit"},"content":{"rendered":"

This National Review-style Twitter feed is brilliant!<\/a><\/p>\n

* Wishing all my fellow Americans a Merry Traditional Holiday Greetings! Enjoy your Winter Season Festivities! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Kwanzaa!<\/p>\n

* Sometimes Trump speaks frankly to his supporters, without artifice, almost as if they’re his co-citizens. Weird. Truly a #ChaosCandidate!<\/p>\n

* The Great Schlong Debacle of 2015 highlights the importance of politicians adequately focus-grouping and rehearsing their every soundbite.<\/p>\n

* The American on the street prefers political candidates whose attacks on their opponents are equal parts sanctimony and passive aggression.<\/p>\n

* I think I speak for all red-blooded Americans when I say icky language is a total dealbreaker when we’re looking for strong leadership.<\/p>\n

* I like my Christianity like I like my conservatism: with a keen eye on the vicissitudes of public opinion and an eagerness to apologize.<\/p>\n

* Yes! There’s still a future for us Christians if we get the courage to admit some of God’s words were kinda bigoted. <\/p>\n

* This Trump\/Putin backpatting is scary. American needs a POTUS who’s unremittingly hostile to the world’s second-biggest nuclear superpower.<\/p>\n

* It’s not for us citizens to pry into affairs above our heads. Our officials know what they’re doing.<\/p>\n

* People you vote into office should look out for your interests? Heh. Take that naivete back to whatever hicktown you crawled from, buddy.<\/p>\n

* This why you have to take layman opinions of Congressional deals with a grain of salt. It’s all very complex stuff. Advanced. Not for rubes.<\/p>\n

* Might seem counter-intuitive, but sometimes the best move in politics is to cede everything to your opponents while shitting on your voters.<\/p>\n

* Glad to see @SpeakerRyan is already continuing the spirit of compromise and goodwill that served us so well during the Boehner years.<\/p>\n

* The reason my timeline is filled with tweets about Donald Trump is that he’s a total clown and beneath contempt and not a serious candidate.<\/p>\n

* Think of the planning it would take to get someone to walk into a rally and shout “Sieg Heil” on camera. Not buying this “plant” conspiracy.<\/p>\n

* Cruz’s performance in the debate tonight was masterful, nay, presidential! I expect to his numbers surge in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

* All I know is that when Jeb draws crowds in the tens of thousands, no individual in *them* ever shouts “Sieg Heil.” Riddle me that.<\/p>\n

* Arriving at opinions about your country is best done under the supervision of trained professionals.<\/p>\n

* Once again I have literally shit my pants over something an alleged Trump supporter said at a rally, and I bet Trump won’t even apologize!<\/p>\n

* We need someone with a demonstrated capacity to make brave stands and rally support in the face of withering opposition. We need Ted Cruz!<\/p>\n

* A POTUS bold enough to stop the ongoing Third World invasion of the US would be nice… but only if his messaging meets GOP brand standards.<\/p>\n

* I don’t see how you can even call yourself conservative unless your candidate passes my 117-item ideological purity checklist.<\/p>\n

* If Trump were really pro-jobs, you think he’d be a little more respectful of people in keystone American industries like political punditry.<\/p>\n

* Couldn’t be more excited to be aboard the J\u0336e\u0336b\u0336 \u0336W\u0336a\u0336l\u0336k\u0336e\u0336r\u0336 \u0336F\u0336i\u0336o\u0336r\u0336i\u0336n\u0336a\u0336 \u0336C\u0336a\u0336r\u0336s\u0336o\u0336n\u0336 \u0336R\u0336u\u0336b\u0336i\u0336o\u0336 Cruz train!<\/p>\n

* Sad to see that the fear of strong women extends even to our most elite warfighters. I hope to see them man up soon! <\/p>\n

* Can’t wait until the RNC bans all Trump supporters, and we can get back to politely losing the culture war and whining about the lib media.<\/p>\n

* We have a system. The DC machine picks your candidate. You vote for them. It works! What kind of demagogue monster would disrupt that?<\/p>\n

* Demagoguery is the low down dirty trick where you hijack the democratic process by appealing directly to the interests of your constituents.<\/p>\n

* How does Democrat-run Portland differ from, say, Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans, or Baltimore… Why isn’t it just as violent? Total mystery.<\/p>\n

* I know it’s Democrat governance that turns US cities into warzones, I’m just trying to figure out how Portland escaped that fate… Hmmm…<\/p>\n

* My interest is in preserving the conservative movement and whichever of our values liberals decide I’m allowed to hold in polite society.<\/p>\n

* So if I’m reading this Constitution correctly, the phrase “free exercise of religion” means anyone gets to move here. Checkmate, Trumpkins.<\/p>\n

* Where will it end? The GOP extremist fringe is alienating our very best pre-pubescent Youtube celebrities of color. <\/p>\n

* I’m devastated. Devastated. A fellow pundit I loved for his brilliant political mind (and not his race) has left us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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