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Conservatives, Stop Falling in Love with Politicians
Townhall ^ | Posted: May 16, 2022 12:01 AM | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 05/16/2022 7:12:18 AM PDT by Oklahoma

You gotta hand it to conservatives – we get abused and dumped and generally treated like dishrags, but we never stop falling for the latest politician who is going to sweep us off our feet and make sweet, sweet political love to us. Yet maybe, instead of acting on our infatuations,----

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1 posted on 05/16/2022 7:12:18 AM PDT by Oklahoma
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To: Oklahoma; admin

Second time this Uniparty garbage has been posted. It sucked the first time.


2 posted on 05/16/2022 7:13:04 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Antoninus

Taking names of all these posting rino......!


3 posted on 05/16/2022 7:13:58 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: Oklahoma

Jim Jordan endorsing the traitor is the last straw. Effem ALL!


4 posted on 05/16/2022 7:14:55 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Oklahoma
There are so few good politicians that the good ones should be recognized. I am not a baby killer nor a war criminal like John Hanoi Kerry accused Viet Nam veterans of being. Actually the demonic party are the ones that kill, steal and destroy. So much click bait to get peoples attention too read excessively long articles. Do they get paid by the word or something?
5 posted on 05/16/2022 7:20:04 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Oklahoma

I LOVE Donald Trump. I LOVE how he improved our lives.


6 posted on 05/16/2022 7:21:17 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Jim Jordan? See if you can top this:

My POTUS crush 20 years ago was John Kasich. ‘Honorary’ member of the Class of ‘94. Even the late Robert Novak once wrote a column entitled ‘The Next Great Communicator’.


7 posted on 05/16/2022 7:21:40 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Oklahoma

I think about 140 Republicans voted to give the Ukrainians $40,000,000,000.

This says everything that needs to said….

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mhDfMfV7Zf0


8 posted on 05/16/2022 7:22:27 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: Oklahoma

I regard politics to be a slightly less honorable profession than prostitution.

That means I regard the vast majority of politicians to be slightly lower than w****s.

So as long as a politician supports my agenda, I’ll be ok with him or her. But if that politician tries to go for a “wealthier suitor”, I won’t hesitate to dump him/her.

I don’t expect any greater loyalty from a politician than from a prostitute. There are a couple of rare exceptions. But those exceptions are very rare.


9 posted on 05/16/2022 7:25:46 AM PDT by markomalley (Directive 10-289 is in force)
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To: Oklahoma

And if there are any questions, consider the number of ‘pubbies we elected in the 2010 Tea Party red wave that virtually instantly turned on us.


10 posted on 05/16/2022 7:27:53 AM PDT by markomalley (Directive 10-289 is in force)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Joe Scarborough was another “bright new conservative star” of that class.


11 posted on 05/16/2022 7:31:25 AM PDT by daler
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To: Oklahoma

Too many jump on bandwagons based on what they want the candidate to be, without doing much research on who the candidate really is.

Fred Thompson for president. It took me 5 minutes of online research to realize he was more of a McCainiac and less of a conservative.

Mia Love. As soon as she crossed to Potomac, she veered left, into the black caucus.

The list of disappointments is long. Many run to the ‘right’ and swing to the ‘left’ after they get elected.


12 posted on 05/16/2022 7:32:10 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Oklahoma
It would be nice if good laws just passed themselves and bad laws just spontaneously disappeared.

Failing that, we need to depend on actual human beings. And for the human beings that plan to do good for us to succeed they need a following.

Rush and Trump showed us that you can't get a great following by just so happening to be right. You need to be engaging and appeal to people's emotions as well.

So we are stuck getting hyped over pols who sometimes stay true and other times fall off the path.

13 posted on 05/16/2022 7:32:11 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: Oklahoma

What the RINO’s dont GET is that we are NOT falling in love with Trump or any other politician, we are SUPPORTING those conservatives who WILL ACTUALLY VOTE FOR CONSERVATIVE LAWS, and will demand and approve CONSERVATIVE JUDGES!!!

I have ZERO use for an old school politician who only SAYS what they KNOW we want to hear for primary, then RUNS back to the middle (cough cough LEFT) each and every time!


14 posted on 05/16/2022 7:34:52 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: ryderann

I don’t love Trump, it basically boils down to “If not Trump, then who?”

Nobody seems to have a good answer for that.


15 posted on 05/16/2022 7:37:50 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: markomalley
I regard politics to be a slightly less honorable profession than prostitution.

I consider politics to be the "legitimate business" a mobster keeps as a front for his real business.

16 posted on 05/16/2022 7:39:19 AM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: dfwgator
At this time, I would have to go with Ron DeSantis as an alternative to Trump.

But your point is well taken. There are very few Republicans who will fight for conservative values. Most of them are swishy "go-along-to-get-along" RINO types. And that is infuriating.

17 posted on 05/16/2022 7:40:09 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (2,792,444 active users on Truth Social)
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To: Oklahoma

I would rather have working class conservatives than establishment “conservatives” in congress. That can only happen a few at a time by the very nature of our electionsystem.

So, what would I prefer to a democrat congress? Just about anything, including an appendectomy.

So, a “republican” congress is necessary for now. Incrementally strengthening one’s hand is how our constitution is written. It’s what we have to work with. It is best for a 10 to win, but I’ll go with a 7 over a 2 any day. 7s will disappoint more than I’d like, but a 2 will disappoint every single vote.


18 posted on 05/16/2022 7:42:12 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: SamAdams76

We’ll see about DeSantis.

The main advantage of Trump is, he actually wants the Job, and willing to take the arrows that come along with it.

Does DeSantis have that? Or is he happy just being Florida governor.

Can’t vote for someone who doesn’t want the job!


19 posted on 05/16/2022 7:44:02 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: markomalley
I regard politics to be a slightly less honorable profession than prostitution.


20 posted on 05/16/2022 7:45:52 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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