[OneVike]

I never ‘ever’ thought I would read these words from you... Now, I have a question, why is it that I could see this in Donald J. Trump from the get-go and you could not?

I never was convinced he wasn't a Dem. I knew Cruz was who he was, and that Cruz was a Christian with a history of taking on the establishment in the Senate.

I admit I was wrong on Trump. I also said I would support him if he won the primary. I was never a, "Never Trumper." The moment I knew he won, I was on his side. Which was long before the convention. I knew he won the nomination after he defeated Cruz in S Carolina, and he carried the Christian vote.

But did you know that William F Buckley refused to support Reagan, because he was convinced he was a liberal. After all, i Reagan's past he the Union head of the Hollywood union, When he was a Governor of Ca he signed into law a liberalization of abortion?

Buckley admitted how was wrong, as do I.

Hey at least I supported a staunch conservative, unlike Buckley who supported Bush over Reagan.

LOL

[T-Bird45]

“...unlike Buckley who supported Bush over Reagan.”

Buckley supported Bush because Buckley was more comfortable with an eastern establishment Republican with his Yale/Skull&Bones/Prescott connections. Also, Reagan’s alignment with Goldwater-style republicanism set him at odds with Buckley. Buckley merely talked/wrote a good game but couldn’t execute the ground game. I’d estimate Buckley’s high-point being the time he called Gore Vidal a “faggot” on live TV.

Today, we put up with a nest of similarly-insipid “never-Trumpers” at Buckley’s former publication, National Review, always pretending to have a piece of the “One True Conservatism” as handed down from the mount by Buckley himself. Bah!