“MR jumped the shark a while back”
I would like to see a list of former conservative stalwarts who have jumped the shark.
Let’s see. Ann Coulter, Tom Cobern, Michael Reagan, Michael Medved, George Will, Condolezza Rice, GW Bush, Jeb Bush, Rick Perry,
Feel free to continue.
But when you think everyone has “jumped the shark” maybe there is something wrong with you eyes and ears.
Anyone who thinks that list is of “conservative stalwarts”, is completely out of it.
I will stay true to my principles instead of following crowds down the wrong path
While I don’t nessesarily agree with your statement fully, there is a good point that you are making.
We, as a website community, have a tendancy to develop a “conservative” orthodoxy that is stringent enough to offend none of our core issues. Almost any candidate or public office holder eventually makes a statement or holds a position that is contrary to one of these core tenants.
Often we ignore the personal nuance or situation that prompted the supposed transgression and we take the position the so-and-so is “now dead to me” — a senseless over reaction.
I will give you one example. Solid conservative congressman Trey Gowdy. Who hasn’t been thrilled by his committee performance? Often the only dog in the fight that is truely effective.
As a former prosecutor, Gowdy decided that children of illegal immigrants should not be treated the same as their parents and, in-part, joined the immigration debate as a compromiser and not a rock solid opponent.
IF we want a man with principles, they naturally have to be HIS principles. Principles are developed over a lifetime and make a person the truely good or poor person that they are that make them recognizable and worthwhile or worthless.
You can have a rock solid guy who says all the right things but can’t inspire voters. Rick Santorum is an example. However, a truely inspiration person like Cruz, Gowdy, Pence or someone else like that is going to have a wart or two. Reagan had that as Governor of California coming to the national stage.
We cannot let the Perfect be the enemy of the Good and Great.
“But when you think everyone has “jumped the shark” maybe there is something wrong with you eyes and ears.”
Is that the same Michael Medved who led antiwar rallies during the Vietnam War?
Thought so.
Is that the same Michael Medved who worked for Red Ron Dellums, the Castro supporting Democrat?
Thought so.
It fits that you consider him a ‘stalwart conservative” I suppose.