Yeah. I don’t get it. FR used to be conservative, used to care about policy.
Partly because, for the past umpteen years, the “conservatives” we support tell us we can go along for the ride, but we just need to sit in the back, sucking on our Slurpee. Until the next election when they want us to pony up for the gas money again.
Just my 2 cents
I agree.
To go a bit further... I was attracted to this site years ago based on the "Free" and "republic" parts of the name which seem not to fit anymore.
I'm not sure I've heard the popular populist front runner mention either word.
Freedom is(was) America's founding principle. Conservatives don't always believe in freedom but they do more often than the never of the Left.
The wall is certainly The Don's big selling point. And I'm with him on that. We aren't even a nation if we can't point to where it starts physically.
But Freedom is not a something achieved by business-like compromise. You are either for it or against it.
Federal level involvement in health care is not Freedom.
Funding for death care is not Freedom.
"Getting things done" at the federal level is almost always not Freedom.
I'll vote for The Don if he captures the nom. It's the only mature option.
I'm probably not missing anything, but I have no idea anymore what a voting booth smells like. I've been holding my nose while voting for several presidential general elections now. I'm starting to sound like Andy Rooney.
To be fair there used to be more discussions on policy but no longer. At times it looks like the Ron/Rand Paul/Huckster mentality has set in.
Yes, that's true, but I think we are now in desperate times. Beating the Democrats seems to be the most important element of this campaign, and Trump seems to be as equally passionate about beating the Democrats as he is about pointing out shortcomings of the RNC.
I am conservative, and I care about policy; but if Trump is the GOP nominee I will probably vote for him.