If Mike Lee is not a conservative, there is no such thing. Period. I am so damn tired of this. This guilt by association thing is ridiculous. Especially coming from a movement around a guy with few conservatives credentials and zero history of advancing conservative ideas. I am not anti-Trump, because I like change agents, but the burning down of a movement for one man who may or may not even bring decent solutions to the deal table is so damn ridiculous. It’s as gross as the idiotic anti-Trump diatribes going on at RedState and other sites. Those folks are unhinged. This is equally dumn.
Please read post 105.
How conservative is someone whose main lifetime employment is the govt? Or is limited govt principals only for the little people? When will he leave govt to work the private sector like a true conservative would?
Dumb? Is as does, Gip.
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What’s conservative about undercutting your own party’s presumptive nominee while giving aid and comfort to Pelosi, Hillary, Sanders, etc.?
I love it when a question contains an answer.
Frankly, I have a more consistent conservative history than does Mike Lee. I was one of the six or seven founders of an organization to promote Goldwater, in Southern Ohio, formed immediately after the 1960 election. For a full decade before that, I had taken on all comers, students or faculty, in High School & College. I have been engaged in the ideological fray ever since.
Mike Lee has simply not bothered to look at Trump as a personality; he has totally missed the instinctive Conservatism of the man--the predecessor to commitment on the issues, on which Trump is now fully engaged; many of which issues, he simply never truly focused on as "issues," before this campaign.
Consider my reasons for this statement. Has not his behavior lately--including since my article was written--confirmed the analysis?
Trump: Metaphor For American Conservatism.
All of us, at some point had to start with a personality that valued continuity; which understood that you must build, whether a culture, building, economy or an argument on a firm foundation. America was exceptional from its inception, because if was built, step by step, by people who understood the process. Contrast that conceptually, with the Leftists pursuing a fantasy driven wish list, a false reality from the clouds: and you will see how important are personality traits in understanding the future.