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CPAC caused me to leave the GOP
Hillsdale Collegian ^ | March 1 2018 | Josh Liebhauser

Posted on 03/02/2018 6:16:40 PM PST by WilliamIII

After two days of the “Conservative” Political Action Conference, it became abundantly clear: The Republican Party is no longer the place for me.

I don’t know what I expected, honestly. I knew that the Grand Old Party was now the party of President Donald Trump, that traditional conservatives such as Sens. Ben Sasse, R-Nebraska, and Marco Rubio, R-Florida, were now an unwelcome fringe and that stirrings of populism and nationalism were making the rounds throughout a changing party.

Trump’s nomination dealt a massive blow to my political optimism, but for some reason, I still held onto the belief that the GOP remained a net good and that Trump’s “winning” outweighed the white nationalist element of the party that keeps rearing its ugly head. Plus, my Hillsdale bubble kept me immersed in real conservatism.

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To: WilliamIII
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Marco Rubio a conservative?


Put the remote down and slowly step away from the Lying TV

The Media was looking for someone that would enter into a backroom agreement to lose politely, and while taking on the right (ala McCain).

Rubio was created in a Network studio.


61 posted on 03/02/2018 7:42:09 PM PST by AnthonySoprano
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Poppy and Dubya only got 12 years between them because Bubba the Slug beat him out of a second term.
One would think that would cause bad blood, but they adopted him instead.....

They were all on the same team from the start; we were the only ones who were fooled. Donald Trump forced the UniParty to reveal itself as its pretend "enemies" united to oppose him.

62 posted on 03/02/2018 7:42:49 PM PST by Always A Marine ("I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation")
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To: WilliamIII

Josh, so you saw some things you didn’t like at CPAC so your going to dump on Trump and SAY your quitting the Republican Party.

So, your a quitter! That’s the bottom line.


63 posted on 03/02/2018 7:50:33 PM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: WilliamIII

Populism: he says it like it’s a dirty word.

pop·u·lism

noun
Support for the concerns of ordinary people.
“It is clear that your populism identifies with the folks on the bottom of the ladder.”
The quality of appealing to or being aimed at ordinary people.
“Art museums did not gain bigger audiences through a new populism.”


64 posted on 03/02/2018 7:51:10 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!�)
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To: WilliamIII

CPAC is fake conservatism.


65 posted on 03/02/2018 7:51:43 PM PST by bigtoona (Make America Great Again! America First!)
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To: WilliamIII

Well said. You’re quite right. If the Sasse/Rubio/McCain/etc., are your UniParty preference, please don’t let the screen door hit you in the butt, on your way out.

By the grace of God there is TRUMP.


66 posted on 03/02/2018 7:52:03 PM PST by RitaOK (Public education/Academia are a farm team for more Marxists coming. Infinitum.)
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To: WilliamIII

“Chants of “lock her up” res­onated fre­quently throughout the hall. “

This is what really bothered this guy — another Democrat infiltrator in the GOP. We are definitely better off that they unmask themselves and let us know who they really are.

Thank you, President Trump. MAGA.


67 posted on 03/02/2018 7:53:23 PM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Hey, Bill-3, take a flying leap at yourself.


68 posted on 03/02/2018 7:54:58 PM PST by Scooter100
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To: WilliamIII
We know you didn’t write it. We’re talking not to you, but the Hillsdale dork.🤓
69 posted on 03/02/2018 7:55:29 PM PST by RitaOK (Public education/Academia are a farm team for more Marxists coming. Infinitum.)
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To: WilliamIII

Thank you Josh, for giving us the benefit of your youth and inexperience.


70 posted on 03/02/2018 8:00:58 PM PST by gogeo (excellent!)
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To: WilliamIII
that traditional conservatives such as Sens. Ben Sasse, R-Nebraska, and Marco Rubio, R-Florida

Stopped reading right there. Sasse isn't remotely a conservative, while Rubio might have some conservative leanings but isn't completely reliable.

71 posted on 03/02/2018 8:08:48 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (The U.S. Senate - where American freedom goes to die.)
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Guess this guy is a #NeverTRUMPer like Bill Kristol, George Will & Bret Stephens LOL

Good riddens

72 posted on 03/02/2018 8:22:34 PM PST by KavMan
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To: Lurkinanloomin
"Instead, former leader of the UK Inde­pen­dence Party Nigel Farage gave an awkward, poorly pre­pared speech that pan­dered to the anti-European Union sen­timent of Trump’s base and praised his own endorsement of the “wildly suc­cessful” pres­ident."

OK. I did some websearching and confirmed that this is the newspaper of Hillsdale College and not a Russian troll lookalike. I was able to navigate from the Hillsdale homepage to this article. Since this is a case of Poe's Law (the real thing indistinguishable from a parody), I felt it necessary to do some due diligence and make sure. Larry Arnn's weekly interviews with Hugh Hewitt were the beginnings of a red flag; and now this takes the cake.

Hillsdale College now joins the Cato Institute as another Anti-American bullcrap institution to which I will no longer be sending $200/year.

73 posted on 03/02/2018 8:24:30 PM PST by snarkpup (Fake news is one-half of the problem. Fake education is the other half.)
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To: WilliamIII

Bill,
U can’t be serious !!!


74 posted on 03/02/2018 8:32:45 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT (Committee to Re-Elect the President ( CREEP ))
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To: Carry me back

Why do people always have to throw a tantrum when they leave? Why not just go?


75 posted on 03/02/2018 8:51:37 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom
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To: WilliamIII

Maybe Hillsdale is going the way of Wheaton College.


76 posted on 03/02/2018 9:13:47 PM PST by Maudeen (Jesus is the Answer . . . Now What is the Question?)
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To: WilliamIII

77 posted on 03/02/2018 9:14:45 PM PST by Rinnwald
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To: WilliamIII

So.. this is Ben Shapiro’s twin?


78 posted on 03/02/2018 9:15:44 PM PST by Pelham (California, a subsidiary of Mexico, Inc.)
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To: exit82

Beat you by four years.


79 posted on 03/02/2018 9:18:15 PM PST by Hostage (nga)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I’d say they didn’t care that much since Clinton advanced their open borders dreams, but I don’t remember Bubba pushing it with near the fervor of Little Bush. It took a Republican who was raised by an illegal nanny to really get things going.


80 posted on 03/02/2018 9:23:05 PM PST by Rastus
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