The "Buckley" admonition held sway when he said it but after years of following it we find ourselves with a stable filled with Big Government RINOs.
It's is time to find a better "rule."
“It’s is time to find a better ‘rule.’”
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Glad you pointed that out ...”Buckley’s Rule,” as practiced, has become a guaranteed formula for the incremental diminution of Conservatism. I think when William Buckley proposed it he assumed that Conservative candidates would always ascribe to a certain minimal list of Conservative principles as set forth in the Constitution.
The problem is that today we have candidates running who call themselves “conservatives” who are not at all conservative in the Buckley sense of the word and many voters who describe themselves as “strongly conservative” w/o any Constitutional basis for that description other than their own perception of social and/or religious tradition and values.
‘The “Buckley” admonition held sway when he said it but after years of following it we find ourselves with a stable filled with Big Government RINOs.
It’s is time to find a better “rule.” ‘
That’s great, I’m all ears. However, the Buckley rule is in fact unassailable, the only problem is with those determining the “who is electable” part.
With Newt, it’s not his conservatism that’s the problem. It’s the giant raft of negatives he brings along for the ride.
Oh, please! We've had one Rockefeller-Republican-RINO after another! Please name one true conservative that the RNC-E has supported -- I'm eager to hear.