https://freerepublic.com/tag/glennbeckreally/ en-us Fri, 22 Jan 2016 04:12:47 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3386934/posts As the election of 2008 approached, America was in crisis. And as we would soon learn, that crisis would not go to waste. Years after Bill Clinton disingenuously claimed that the era of big government was over, Obama won his party's nomination by promising its furious revenge. For constitutional conservatives, the Republican contest functioned less like a primary and more like an abandonment. Politically orphaned by their party, conservatives were forced to either stay home or hold their noses and vote for a progressive Republican. There was a silver lining, however. Rising out of the ashes of that electoral defeat... National Review https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3386934/posts#comment Fri, 22 Jan 2016 04:12:47 GMT