Doesn't Trump belong to the Republican party?
I don't understand your point.
I've heard Mark say, "I'm this close to leaving the Republican party." And... what?
Levin doesn't trash Republicans through innuendo (Trump) or misrepresentation (Rubio).
The only person that qualifies as a Republican in the traditionally accepted definition is Cruz. The rest are in several ways far off the platform and in the case of Rubio, Carson and Bush, they are closer in positions, stated positions, to the Democrat platform than the GOP platform. So at what point do we stop lying to ourselves about the “R” they loosely attached to their sleeve?
Levin has a record of chest pounding conservatism no matter what, right up until the GOP nominates a liberal. At that point he tells his audience that they have to elect that liberal no matter what because the dem is worse. And that is a behavior mirrored by Rush, Hannity, Coulter and the rest. Actually not Coulter. She’s still on a Romney love kick so she left the state, much less the rez, entirely.
What exactly is the point of beating ones chest only to, when it actually matters, say “You know what folkes? Forget everything I said. Forget what I wrote in my books. We gotta elect one liberal over another because. Just this once.
And then 2 years later do it with the house and senate. Just forget the chest beating rhetoric that reemerged the day following the election and continued right until the primary. Go out there and elect the GOP liberal because a GOP liberal that hands Barry 100% of what Barry wants is better than a Dem liberal that hands Barry 100% of what he wants because the Council of Conservative Unicorns temporarily suspended principle again.
Conservatism is not something to be cast aside ‘to win no matter what’. If it is, then why believe in it to begin with? If you just cast it aside at a whim, then what’s the point?