RINO Tom
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« on: June 26, 2016, 05:32:40 PM » |
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Excellent points. This year should may turn out very good!
Here's a quote from Charles Murray's "Trump's America" about Trump's supporters that bears highlighting:
There are many consequences of Trumpism that will remain with us. One of them is the end of the GOP nominating process being a contest of "Who's the purest conservative?". Here you have a major constituency within the GOP that is demanding that the government act on their behalf. These people have been Republicans and voted Republican forever; they weren't noticed because they were ignored and crapped on. Until the day, that is, where a turd hit them in the eye and they woke up. Our politics IS better for this; it's the end of the "Mr. Conservative" beauty contest that would have dismissed Trumpism as an anamoly and made Ted Cruz the "next in line".
The implications on the conservative movement are enormous, I do agree. I never thought I'd see the day when Rush Limbaugh would become wobbly on the question of how important it is that the GOP candidate be a true conservative. But here we are. But if the neocons are out, I won't miss them. Pat Buchanan is a staunch conservative and he's on the Trump train. Exciting times are upon us! I like the blue avatar!
No, he's not.
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