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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Thank God. You put your finger on what I've been arguing for three weeks.

THE MOST conservative value is that "we the people" get to choose our leaders, whether or not they fit a litmus test. We get to choose boorish, thuggish people like Andrew Jackson, we get to choose people with very little national experience like Abraham Lincoln---a couple of congressional terms. We get to choose pompous, bombastic, egotistic bullies . . . like Theodore Roosevelt. We get to choose people with NO political experience at all, like Ike; and we get to choose an actor who signed a bill legalizing abortion in his state, Reagan.

It is utterly essential that once a generation the people rise up and say, No more! WE get to choose, not you elites." And that is precisely the Trump effect I've been seeing.

It is not an affirmation of "traditional" conservatism and beating us over the head with what values this or that candidate "should" hold just ain't gonna cut it.

This is an affirmation of THE conservative value that We the People ultimately get to choose our leaders.

84 posted on 08/14/2015 6:51:04 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS

BRAVO!


273 posted on 09/12/2015 7:38:00 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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