We remember when many U.S. Republican leaders were genuine conservatives,
Second sentence.
"laced with erratic tea party extremism,"
Sooo TEA Party efforts to actually return to the "genuine conservatives" that "The Editor" pontificates upon is now decreed as "lacing with erratic TEA Party extremism?"
He then begins what I now refer to as the RDS cluster***k.
Herman Cain, who said God told him to run
Newt Gingrich, a notorious philanderer
Michele Bachmann says it was wrong for President Obama to help overthrow Libya's dictator.
Rick Perry launched his candidacy with a giant revival
heroic Republican pioneer Abraham Lincoln, who battled slavery, or GOP crusader Teddy Roosevelt,
(those guys were conservatives?)
GOP "spent much of the past three decades pandering to the religious right
embraced the "messy" family life of Sarah Palin
What is it that makes the communist agenda donks seem to believe that political myths repeated enough times creates reality? Just because they have convinced themselves they know what is best for mere republicans they seem to also believe they understand what a true conservative GOP candidate is.
He is alluding to Mittwitt.
Tea party stalwarts renounce GOP leader Mitt Romney because... (blah - blah - blah)
Really Mr. "The Editor"?
Mitt Romney?
Well, I can understand why no one would put their actual name on this fairy tale, Mr. "The Editor."
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Lincoln was, practically speaking, the most conservative president in American history. Without him the Constitution and system of government our conservatism seeks to conserve would have ended.
Which is not to say every action of his was constitutional in the strict sense, as he would have agreed. Only that his net effect was both constitutional and necessary. I believe he would have gladly returned the country to a system closer to its prewar status than actually occurred after he was murdered.
OTOH, Teddy was a Progressive (in the terms of his time, not ours). He rejected the ideas behind the Constitution.