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RIP, Movement Conservatism
American Thinker ^ | February 27, 2017 | J.R. Dunn

Posted on 02/27/2017 5:53:57 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 02/27/2017 5:53:57 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Not true. Conservatism was fractured long before Trump. In 2012 I used to argue at websites with Romney supporters because I didn’t find Mitt any good. Those Romney supporters thought they were “conservative.”


2 posted on 02/27/2017 5:56:37 AM PST by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fiction.)
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To: Kaslin

RIP.


3 posted on 02/27/2017 5:56:51 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Kaslin

What had the “Conservative Movement” accomplished all of those years, other than being nothing more than a “debating society”?


4 posted on 02/27/2017 5:57:48 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Kaslin

The establishment whores in DC have completely bastardized the term “Conservatism” into meaning who has the biggest check from K-Street.


5 posted on 02/27/2017 5:58:07 AM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Kaslin

Well, it mighta helped if they ever actually conserved one thing. Maybe just the women’s bathrooms but they even lost those.


6 posted on 02/27/2017 5:59:01 AM PST by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: Kaslin

Oh Good Grief ... might as well substitute dog turds for breakfast sausage.


7 posted on 02/27/2017 6:02:19 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Kaslin; Jim Robinson; Lazamataz

Hmm. I don’t feel dead.

Do you guys feel dead?


8 posted on 02/27/2017 6:03:24 AM PST by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Mozilla

I think conservatism attached to classical elitist conservative establishment has largely been a concerted campaign of deception about real motives. Lies of exigency (to get elected) in my opinion.

This deception was outed by Trump and the bleats, moans, deceit, scheming, cheating and sabotage by the establishment conservatives was clearly, clearly apparent during this campaign. The acolytes of this entrenched cabal are now known, and they will never recover from it in my opinion. Truth and straight talk combined with action will see to that.


9 posted on 02/27/2017 6:05:43 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: dfwgator

Killed the Soviet union.


10 posted on 02/27/2017 6:09:06 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' Fake News unregulated SuperPAC.)
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To: Kaslin

Movement Conservatives = Globalist Cheap Labor Express hacks.


11 posted on 02/27/2017 6:09:23 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Kaslin

If we’d just support amnesty, bug government spending, and ObamaCare, conservatism would be alive and well! \s


12 posted on 02/27/2017 6:09:34 AM PST by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat)
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To: Mozilla

I guess you didn’t read the whole thing.


13 posted on 02/27/2017 6:10:40 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Kaslin

Trump is a Paleo Conservative, of the Pat Buchanan type


14 posted on 02/27/2017 6:20:32 AM PST by 4rcane
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To: Kaslin
Incredible as it may seem, “history” did stop. Today, in large part due to its own success, it is on its way back to coterie status.

I don't see how anyone can say that conservatism has been a "success" over the past 30 or 40 years. Government has continued to increase and expand, we have significant new entitlements. We have gay marriage. We have trangender rights. Abortion is alive and well. The Left has continued to march forward and conservatism, generally, has been losing.

15 posted on 02/27/2017 6:21:08 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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coterie (ˈkəʊtərɪ)

n

a small exclusive group of friends or people with common interests; clique

16 posted on 02/27/2017 6:22:39 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

“Killed the Soviet union.”

That was the last time they did the right thing. Since then they’ve ignored Putin re-arming, China’s rise, and barely cared about Iran or the Norks.

80% of Republicans have been SCREAMING at the party ever since Bush Sr. broke his tax pledge, simply because the party wouldn’t allow someone we like and want to run (and don’t forget, these ‘movement’ people hated Reagan too, initially).

And when someone rises up that represents the 80%, they tell us they’re going to vote for Hillary instead. And as someone earlier pointed out, these ‘movement conservatives’ wouldn’t even fight to keep the ladies’ room safe.


17 posted on 02/27/2017 6:23:22 AM PST by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: Kaslin

The war is now the UniParty globalists vs. Real America


18 posted on 02/27/2017 6:24:31 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: 4rcane

“Trump is a Paleo Conservative, of the Pat Buchanan type”

In some ways, but not in others, like it comes to Israel, for example.


19 posted on 02/27/2017 6:24:44 AM PST by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: Mozilla; Jim Robinson

It was fractured before Mittens.

We had people on this forum who insisted that if you would not participate in arming the Muslim theocrats by voting for McCain then you really wanted Obama. Much of the openly and unabashedly Islamist faction here would go on to champion Islamist icon Rick Perry, who signed Sharia Court provisions into Texas law

As things have played out, those two turncoats have become revealed to everyone as being exactly what they were then , and nobody promoting either one is cooling anybody anymore.


20 posted on 02/27/2017 6:25:15 AM PST by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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