Posted on 11/10/2014 11:51:30 AM PST by lulu16
Some people like to claim to be conservative, or at least not liberal, but always vote Democrat. They aren’t conservative, whatever they say. I have a liberal brother who claims not to be “that liberal”. I asked him if he ever voted for a Republican for president. He said John McCain. Not in 2008, but in the 2000 .primary against Bush. Of course he voted for Gore in the general. So in 2008 I said, “So I guess you’re voting for your guy McCain this time?”. Of course I already had seen his Obama bumper sticker.
Does anyone know why he turned? Or what were the indications during the time so see that he was a closet progressive?
If David Brooks likes them, then no, they are not conservative.
Worms turn and so do people!
This is so idiotic it should get no mention.
ya think maybe he’s like 147 and senile maybe????????
You talking about Obama?
Just look at how he grew up and the influences on his life, case in point Frank Marshall Davis a committed communist.
Bill Clinton’s “core conservatism” began when Republicans took over Congress. That was also when the economy and Clinton’s approval ratings turned around.
Richard Nixon was not a conservative. He was a big government liberal. Republicans have sense done everything they can to blame Nixon’s big government obsession on Kennedy and Johnson, but he was worse than Kennedy, and at least as bad as Johnson.
Conservatism is more than tax breaks. It is a respect for and adherence to the Constitution and limited government. It is also respect for the values and principles that provide the foundation for good government and greatness. Obama loses on all counts. A good conservative gets out of the way to let free enterprise run the economy. It isn’t the practice of using government to solve every economic, and social problem.
If you don’t think Obama is a conservative, look at last Tuesday’s results again. Courtesy of Obama. We should thank him.
If Obama is a “Republican”, then we desperately need a new party.
Bruce Bartlett seems to have lost any marbles he had left
I’m talking about Bartlett. He didn’t seem senile or that he was programmed when he was on Zakaria’s show. In fact, nothing he said computed, so that is when I later checked his credentials. Just now I found this on his Twitter about:
“Lifelong conservative who now hates the GOP for pandering to morons, racists, religious kooks and ignoramuses. My tweets should not always be taken seriously.”
Pat Buchanan owns it I think
LOL!
Yup, good job by the Obamster in motivating conservatives throughout the land. And de-motivating the normal cadre of Dem kool-aid drinkers.
That doesn't make him a conservative - it makes him helpful to conservatives.
As a comment at that site said, if this is all true then the only reason people oppose him is race.
Bruce Bartlett is calling us all racist, in effect
I read that and thought the same. I’d like to see that report because have never heard of such a thing. Wholesale lying is usually in the wheelhouse of demrats and their operatives.
Oh, I just thought of something, maybe he was actually thinking of all the progressive republicans elitist hoi polloi, who voted for The Won, falling short on the true description of a conservative.
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