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The Giant Sucking Sound still being heard 21 years after NAFTA passage with no end in sight.
Yep, opening new markets for US products and creating US jobs as promised.

Now what was/is the pure conservative position on these issues, all you pure conservative scholars?

I still remember all the debates about NAFTA. I didn't follow politics that closely then as I was a bit younger, but I remember a lot of it.

The Republican establishment promoted NAFTA like it was going to be the best thing EVER!

Anyone that disagreed was labeled anti-freedom, anti-Capitalist, anti- this and that.

Well it turns out the whole thing was just a giant screw job!

Unfortunately, there are a lot of "Conservatives" that would be fine with offshoring literally every job in the country. We would become like Somalia or North Korea, but it would be good for business!

Unfortunately, there are a lot of "Conservatives" that would be fine with offshoring literally every job in the country. We would become like Somalia or North Korea, but it would be good for business!

And primo conservative Newt Gingrich was a primary supporter of NAFTA and the WTO. People who called themselves conservatives supported those two globalist programs almost to a man, with Duncan Hunter, Sr. and a few other exceptions. And they supported W's amnesty goals and the Gang-of-Eight amnesty bill. Those have been the two most vigorously supported conservative goals of the past twenty years.

"Conservatives" here and elsewhere today want to talk about gay marriage and abortion, and mouth a few words about "limited government", but they won't embrace the globalist agreements and goals that have been a hallmark of the GOP for the past two or three decades.

And Ted Cruz, the smartest lawyer who ever lived, and the purest conservative alive today, has flipped and flopped on the issue of TPA and TPP and the free movement of labor (also a globalist goal). And also on immigration issues.

All these "conservatives" need to drop all the posturing and discuss the issues of this campaign in a logical and honest manner. Conservatives have, and still do, support open borders, any trade agreement that can be dreamed up by any globalist on earth, and amnesty for illegals.