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If you want to try to claim that your attempt to goalpost-shift to "quote" means anything semantically, feel free to fail at that, too.
That is, in fact, precisely the issue. That was the accusation
YOU laid at my feet in
Post 197, and was what started this entire exchange. I tried to let you retract the accusation in
post 213, and avoid this whole mess, but instead
YOU chose to
double down, challenging me to give it my “best shot”.
Well, I did so. I accept that your refusal to deal with what I provided you, combined with your derision of the same "principles" you previously claimed to prioritize, implies your acknowledgement that, in fact, the GOP and so-called "Conservatives" were the ones who changed their positions and principles in order to serve Trump, rather than myself.
If that were the case, you would have been able to answer it, instead of avoiding it and trying desperately to change the subject. :shrug:
:roll: This is only the third time I've had to tell you this. I wholeheartedly agree there are no perfect conservatives because there are no perfect people - we are all fallen. But I can support - and have supported - lots of people from across the conservative spectrum. I supported Bush, McCain, and Romney. In the 2016 Primary, I would have been able to vote for pretty much any of the GOP candidates except for Trump and
possibly Carson and Christie (their VP picks would have mattered).
But I support
Conservatives. I don't support
Republicans. Many people claimed that as their banner - you falsely did earlier – but were, in fact, Republican party / Talk Radio tribal loyalists, who would value Unity Of The Tribe and Support For The Leader
way above those silly, replaceable, “Principles”. I also tend to support people who I won’t be personally ashamed of having supported. I didn’t like Romney much or think highly of him as a Conservative (because he
wasn’t much of one), but I was never at risk of being
ashamed by associating myself with him. I never had to feel like I would be acting immorally to defend his actions and declare them virtuous, as you attempted to do.
It's not that Trump is an imperfect conservative or an imperfect Christian. It's that he is not a Conservative, and he is not a Christian.
The number of people on this forum who care about this data point is precisely one - and it is you. You voting for Trump is not a piece of evidence in his favor.
My seeking of the Perfect Conservative is nonexistant, as (as I told you repeatedly) I don't do such. Are you un
willing, or un
able to read and comprehend the posts you are responding to? But does this mean you have finally decided once and for all that I am, in fact, too conservative? Or are you about to change that and go back to accusing me of being someone who is too purist of a conservative, and therefore a leftist? :roll:.
