See, you have to look at this through the rose colored glasses of the ethically flexible.
Words no longer mean things like they used to. They mean whatever the speaker wishes them to mean. Today, a GOPe pol saus he is for strong border defense, low taxes and will fight to repeal Obamacare.
In reality, they sign bills funding Obamacare, raising taxes and ‘reforming’ immigration to allow the border to become an amusement park where all liberal wishes come true.
Those things all happened this week, but there are thousands like them in the last 30 years. Orwell called it ‘holding two diametrically opposed ideas and believing both to be true”. Now George was a smart guy. I don’t philosophise on that level. Simple mountain hick that I am, I have to look at prople supporting that crap and demanding to be called conservative as frauds. My prefered term is Cheshire because in reality, as demonstrated by their mastery of situational ethics, their conservative ideals appear and vanish as needed to forward their agenda.
When they need to rally the troops, they are rock ribbed Reganites. When it comes time to elect the latest RINO, they are walking excuse factories without a shred of integrity or courage of their convictions.
Those are the facts. And they are not able to be twisted, like words, to mean things they do not. When one supports a liberal, they are a liberal. Always. No exceptions. Because conservatives do not vote for liberals.
Because contrary to the ethically flexable among us, words DO in fact, mean things.
Yes, they do, and more importantly, so do actions. It is the unfortunate condition of your 'Cheshires' that Conservatives watch, deliberate, and have exceedingly long memories.
And wherein those appeasers use catch phrases to promise the world, and don the Conservative mantle like an old coat, to Conservatives, principle is a way-of-life - And every last one of them knows when the line has been crossed.
I find it hilarious every election year, to see those who think they are stalwarts pull out all the stops: wheedling and cajoling, insulting and cursing, trying to get that which is erudite and wholly immovable to move - not merely an inch or two, but MILES. LOL! It would be funny if it were not so very pathetic!
Soon enough they will be at the voting trough, in their soggy pants, pulling for the big, rhinestone 'R', thinking that they are the solution, when all along, they are the problem!
Thanks Norm, you and your FRiends, for taking the time to school yet another generation of crybaby milksops! You guys are aces! I just flat ran out of patience for it.