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I grew up in New York. My parents were involved in forming the Conservative Party. We fought the Rockefeller Republicans. I don’t think anyone would call them conservatives.

I believe he’s talking about the old Goldwater types.

He wasn't even born when Goldwater was the Republican nominee, a party interloper as far as the GOPe (all Rockefeller Republicans) were concerned. Same holds true for Reagan, who was a former Democrat supporter. Reagan was the only other conservative Republican President in my lifetime, though he too had some leftover liberal influences, and now there is President Trump. I've never read anything by Kevin that was critical of GW Bush for his dubious conservative bona-fides. Both he and pappy were both Rockefeller Republicans, which both of us agree are not conservatives by any stretch of the imagination.

So who exactly was, and still is, he pining for? Ted Cruz? By all measures he is not eligible because he is not a Natural Born Citizen. But beyond that I do not think Ted Cruz could win a national election. He almost lost to Robert Francis O'Rourke for goodness sake. Nor is he the fighter President Trump is. He would get steamrolled within a very short time in the White House, if he somehow made it there.

I could understand Kevin's non-support of Donald J. Trump before he was elected, but to continue on after seeing him in office, tells me one of two things must be the reason. #1) He can't ever admit that he was wrong, #2) Kevin is not a conservative himself. One thing I can surmise is is that Kevin is an A-Hole who needs to get over himself.