[jobim]

This is the best essay yet on the subject of Cruz, Trump, and electing a Conservative:

https://hotgas.net/2016/03/the-hollow-men/

This is the end. What has con­ser­vatism come to, when its lead­ing advo­cate on the cam­paign
trail, after decades of cor­ro­sive lib­er­al­ism, and seven years of a malev­o­lent,
America-hating nihilist in the White House, blames a can­di­date from his own party and,
worse, that candidate’s sup­port­ers, for the sorry state of the Repub­lic and the vicious­ness
of its polit­i­cal dis­course? Barack Obama and the Demo­c­rat Party have done every­thing
in their power to set per­son against
per­son, group against group, and party against party, exploit­ing divi­sions, and inflam­ing con­flict, until that con­flict and hatred has
become insti­tu­tion­al­ized as a means of gov­er­nance, and Ted Cruz can only blame those
that oppose the degra­da­tion, and the man who rep­re­sents them. I can’t think of any­thing
more opposed to the spirit of con­ser­vatism than that.

[Windflier]

What an excellent treatise on what’s actually happening in the conservative movement. The author has not only correctly diagnosed the situation, but he’s done so eloquently.

Now this is someone who really does have half their brain tied behind their back, just to make it fair.

[RKBA Democrat]

If what it means to be a “conservative” is to agree with the sanctimonious twits at NRO or to follow the Goldmanite of God, then I want nothing to do with it.

American nationalism is more to my liking.