Posted on 05/28/2021 4:31:51 PM PDT by cotton1706
We could capture all the political problems our country faces today with a single question – where have all the conservative leaders of the past two decades gone? I’m thinking of a select few: George W. Bush, John Boehner, Paul Ryan, and Jeff Flake. They all have a couple of things in common. When in office, they were viewed as nice guy conservatives with whom the other party could negotiate. Since having left office, they have all been absent from the public scene when the country most needs them.
Boehner is happily hawking marijuana and writing books. When he appears in the media these days, those are the things he talks about. When he’s asked about the split in the Republican Party, he makes jokes about Donald Trump but has no interest in fighting to restore the party to its pre-Trump values.
Paul Ryan, who reluctantly accepted the role of House Speaker when Boehner quit, was a very popular conservative who could have capitalized on his status when Trump began changing the party into a racist, divisive cheering section. But he never had the stomach for the kind of confrontation that required. He knew that with Mitch McConnell’s help, he could achieve his decades-long goal of massive tax cuts for big business and the wealthiest Americans because it was in Trump’s wheel house. Like the others, when his personal objective was met he quit, leaving the rest of us to survive Trump. Unfortunately, almost 600,000 of us didn’t.
Flake is the heir of Barry Goldwater’s Conscience of a Conservative movement. In the first two years of Trump’s presidency, he showed some backbone in defense of his values, publishing a scathing book about Trump’s dishonesty and immorality.
(Excerpt) Read more at americathebeautiful.blog ...
The veil has been lifted.
“Trump began changing the party into a racist, divisive cheering section.” Hogwash! A crazy nutcase article.
Alan Zendell is a moron.
No the country does not need these guys. They were not "nice guy conservatives." They were losers and set freedom and prosperity back a couple of generations - at least - while playing nice guy with the behind guys who lined their pockets on the good will of softy so-called conservatives.
They are not conservatives. Conservative have principles. To have principles means you fight for them. There was no fight in any of these "nice guys."
Good riddance, and no we don't want them back.
Were traitors. They were traitors 20 years ago. The are traitors now. Bush, Boehner, Ryan, the whole lot.
I like Gingrich better than the rest of them. But I do not trust Gingrich either.
Alan Zendell is a racist.
Exactly. The article is almost completely disassociated with reality.
The only facts in the article is that these former "Conservatives" have been kicked out of the Republican mainstream, primarily for their treasonous efforts to aid America's enemies and assist in the decline of American power.
I'm supposed to enjoy reading twaddle like this? Reading graffiti from bathroom stalls is more entertaining and enlightening. The truth is these wimps are gone and good riddance to them! The RAT party is relentlessly EVIL and must be opposed with as much energy and determination as this enemy is using to bring America to its knees!
The only reaching across the table to the RAT party should be to slap their drooling faces!
Bend over America type values?
N.Y. 23....2009!!!!!!!!!!!
Newt is a traitor to Conservatism!!!!!!!
He's even a traitor to the lame ass GOP!!!!!!!!!
They have proven themselves to be nothing more than international communists.
What is wrong with you?
You should ask the mods to delete this anti-Trump, anti-Trump-supporter piece of dreck.
Insulting smears, from start to finish.
Flake is the heir of Barry Goldwater’s Conscience of a Conservative movement ...Like blazes. As someone who has read that book, I confirm that it was written as a warning about and against hacks such as Flake.
With all due respect, that is not another way to say "Barf Alert".
(read all the way through for pure enjoyment)
The Establishment is starting to realize that Republican voters are no longer interested in “nice guy conservatives” who will sell them out to the Democrats.
It no longer matters what the Cheap Labor business donors want.
They voted for the democrats.
I’m rather sure that you did the same.
I can understand sitting one out but not voting for the democrat.
You sit and whine about Trump whilst Biden is burning the place to the ground.
Go to h***.
I guess in some contexts, “nice guy” and “fake” are synonymous.
Problem is Whiney Whimps like Mccarthy
Bkmk
They’ve almost all been compromised and have been bought off.
If they try to buck the democrats, the dems will expose the areas in whcih they have been compromised.
Of course, consequences are only for Republicans.
Democrat philanderers can impregnate and murder women and get a lifetime appointment to a Senate seat.
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