Posted on 08/15/2016 4:40:00 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
The weekend's last RedState Gathering panel tried to keep a stiff upper lip in the face of the Trump Revolution.
Only reality kept getting in the way.
Katie Pavlich, a Townhall editor and Fox News contributor, spoke what was probably on many attendees' minds Sunday. She clearly didn't take any joy in putting it out there.
"There aren't as many conservatives in the country as we thought there were," Pavlich said during the last of three intellectually packed days in Denver. The rise of Donald Trump, compounded with avowed socialist Bernie Sanders, made that all too clear over the past six months.
"When people like [conservative Sen.] Ben Sasse are the 'enemy,' we're in a really bad spot," she added.
Pavlich shared the stage with Townhall.com's Guy Benson, RedState Managing Editor Leon Wolf and radio talker Erick Erickson.
The focus? Moving forward after Election Day.
No votes have been tallied yet, but the panel agreed on the outcome. Trump will lose, and lose badly to Hillary Clinton.
(snip)
The group pointed to leaders like Carly Fiorina, Josh Hawley and Sasse in particular as reasons for optimism.
"These are some good people, and they're on our team," Benson said.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
If they define Mittens as a conservative or George Will then YES there are NOT as many SO CALLED conservatives in the country as THEY THOUGHT!!!! LOSERS!!!!!
Frankly, I am so tired of hearing the word “conservative.” As of late it has been so misused to cover up all sorts of betrayal, collusion, selfishness, underhandedness and a plethora of other ill begotten excuses for cowardice one could ever imagine.
Frankly if I have to align myself with Romney, or Cruz, or McCain or any of the other petty self-absorbed politicians to be a ‘conservative’, then I don’t want any part of that damned moniker.
I don’t have a problem telling the truth about her. She is a blonde Amanda Carpenter. I bet they are bff’s....
IMO, 99% of her yapping while on FNC is spent slinging crap/lies about Trump.
Sure, people can argue about how conservative politically active people are and which ones are real conservatives and which ones aren't.
The bigger problem is that the country as a whole isn't as conservative as it once was. Contrary to what Ted Cruz and a lot of other people thought, being the most conservative -- however you want to define that -- doesn't win elections nowadays.
Who are those individuals or groups who make up the elite "we"??
Are they the same ones who have encouraged and allowed the actions/inactions of Republican legislators who, under the banner of something they, themselves, called "conservatism" brought about such resentment from "We, the People" that a political unknown named Donald Trump attracted the largest Republican primary vote in history?
If Katie's "we" is made up of that population, that is one thing; what she needs to consider, however, is that there may exist a much larger "conservative" population out here who are more in line with Russell Kirk's idea of "the conservative mind," not with those individuals and groups with whom she associates herself today.
You are exactly right about MOST pundits. And add to that MOST “conservative” politicians. They talk a good game, but after election go back to serving their real masters, their ultra-rich sugar daddies. It looks like many republicans have become wise to that game and that explains why Trump won the nomination.
See what in #47, or do your words on their face simply have no value in repeating them?
FReegards!
Wrong side of the bed?
You have answered my question.
"... your words on their face simply have no value in repeating them?"
FReegards!
Prickly.
And none of them attended that rally.
>Carly Fiorina
Carly is not and has never been a conservative. She ran as a liberal in CA, then as a conservative in the presidential primaries. She’s a rat.
>Note how the (R) wing of the Uniparty has tried (with some success) to usurp the term conservative.
I’ve adopted the term Conservative Nationalist. They’re quickly turning the word conservative into a whore house.
>I’m quite sure Trumps position on that is that the states, not the Federal Government, should decide.
That is his position.
Thx
In terms of the Bible the push towards globalism has its roots in Genesis 11. God responded with the destruction of Babel and the confusion of different languages. Some believe Nimrod was a foreshadowing of AntiChrist.
Katie Pavlich is young and extremely naive when it comes to judging character, or anything else for that matter.
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