<http://schema.org/articleBody>
" Being our semi-regular weekly survey of the state of Our National Dialogue which, as we know, is what Ray Davies would have come up with had he composed &amp;quot;Till The End Of The Derp.&amp;quot; Can there be any doubt that this week&amp;#039;s House Cup would go to This Week With The Clinton Guy Shocked By Blowjobs, on which Rich (Sparklepants) Lowry sought to defend the mudpie his longtime\u2014and startlingly advertising-free\u2014white supremacist journal hurled at He, Trump?\u00A0Any special edition that leads off with Glenn Beck is a very special edition indeed, but watch Lowry drape his collection of mixed nuts in the finest ermine. LOWRY: Yes, the reason, Martha, we did this issue, we wanted to make two points. One, Donald Trump is not a conservative. He&amp;#039;s shown no interest, really, in a limited government, liberty, &amp;quot;The Constitution,&amp;quot; these animating causes of conservatism. And two, we wanted to make the point that it&amp;#039;s not the so-called establishment, necessarily, that&amp;#039;s opposing Trump. In fact, as we speak, you have elements of the political establishment among Republicans hiding under their desk, figuring out how they can possibly co-opt or deal with Donald Trump. We wanted to make the point that it&amp;#039;s principled conservatives who oppose Trump. We want to win this election. We want to do it with a conservative. And we think we can. RADDATZ: And Rich, you wrote in Politico this morning that this is what &amp;quot;National Review&amp;quot; exists to do, to plant the flag for conservatism without fear or favor. And good for you, Sparky.\u00A0(Added historical note: It owes its continued existence to William F. Buckley&amp;#039;s longtime occupation of a barstool at that notably Hayekian trough, the Public Broadcasting System.) There hasn&amp;#039;t been a minute of that publication&amp;#039;s existence that wasn&amp;#039;t devoted to making its readers afraid of somebody somewhere. And, anyway, if a flag is planted in a forest, and nobody&amp;#039;s there to read it, does it really wave? Or something. Earlier in the show, Martha Raddatz, sitting in once again for The Clinton Guy, found herself speaking to Jeb (!) Bush, the sad little raincloud of the Republican campaign. BUSH: Hey, Martha, I&amp;#039;m the only guy taking Trump on. I&amp;#039;m the only guy that takes Trump on directly because I don&amp;#039;t believe that he&amp;#039;s a conservative and I don&amp;#039;t believe that my life commitment to the conservative cause is going to be validated by having a guy be our nominee who&amp;#039;s not a conservative and who does not believe in a hopeful, optimistic message. So &amp;quot;The Weekly Standard&amp;quot; can say what they want. But I&amp;#039;m the only guy that consistently goes after him. And I&amp;#039;ll continue to do it as I advocate an\u2014my ideas, my detailed plans to fix the mess in Washington, D.C. Goddamn and little fishes, Jeb (!), I love it when you flex. (But &amp;quot;Hey, Martha&amp;quot; is rude. She&amp;#039;s not the downstairs clamshucker in Kennebunkport.) But, dude, looked at the correct way, He, Trump has the most optimistic message of all of you clowns. The rest of you are seven rooms of gloom. Y&amp;#039;all have ISIS pick-up trucks pouring through the nearest drive-thru, the country an economic wasteland against all the available evidence, and American business overburdened and timid. Trump says, vote for me and I&amp;#039;ll fix anything because I&amp;#039;m Trump, you&amp;#039;re not, and neither are any of these other losers. Help me, Trump, make American great again! Say what you want about it, and I will, but it&amp;#039;s optimistic as hell. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a41496/this-week-rich-lowry-jeb-bush/>