[tacticalogic]

I’m with you. At this point in time, I consider being an AMERICAN a lot more important than being a conservative.

After all, what good has being “conservative” done us since 1988?

Stop being conservative, and start being American.

I honestly don't know what to make of that.

[sparklite2]

Scott Adams points out the need for defining conservative.
If you think GW Bush is/was a conservative, then he was surely quiescent. FedGov continued its metastasizing when Bush had a majority in Congress and a conservative USSC. We put them in power to de-ratchet the thrust to socialism and they did nothing. If, then, the Bushies were/are not conservative, then surely the Tea Party movement is, in which case Palin’s endorsement of Trump should point the direction of “true” conservatism, and the NR can go pound sand.