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What Is A True Conservative Anyway?

biff_poindexter said:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/opinion/campaign-stops/the-defeat-of-true-conservatism.html


After the 2007-2008 economic collapse, when Bush was on his way out of DC -- I heard a lot of people talking about how he wasn't a "true conservative" anyway -- and how the previous Bush wasn't a "true conservative" anyway.

Then when McCain lost in 2008, I still was told how McCain wasn't a true conservative anyway, how it was Palin who was the true conservative. Then in 2012, when Romney lost, I was told how Romney wasn't a "true conservative" anyway, how it was Paul Ryan who was the true conservative. Then in 2016, that was the year I was told that the GOP needed to nominate a "true conservative" -- then Trump won, and when it looked like he wasn't going to win the election -- I was told how Trump isn't a true conservative anyway -- then he won.

Is Trump a true conservative now?? If not, who is a "true conservative"? -- or is that term just something conservatives say when they need to distance themselves from policies or presidential administrations that were failures?? Can someone tell me who is a true conservative? Not in terms of platitude statements that doesn't really amount to anything but bumper sticker slogans, but can you tell me what currently elected politician is a true conservative?
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There just has to be some homage to Christianity no matter how ridiculous the ties are. Like how the true "Christian" Trump is a hero to the evangelicals.

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veritas1 said:
Blacks and Hispanics will always vote heavily Democrat despite any gains the GOP might make. The Cubans who had firsthand experience of communism will always support the GOP. However, those people are dying out and their kids and grandkids who have been born here are taking over. They are much more susceptible to liberal "logic".
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Fine, keep doing what you're doing then. BTW, it isn't just Cubans slick, your precious GOP has lost massive support with Asians as well. Basically white rural voters who are "susceptible" to "conservative logic" are your base at this point, and honestly there isn't enough of them to keep your political party or your ideology relevant in the long run. But hey, keep doing what you've been doing! It helped you get a Reality T.V. Star barely elected president.
 
Puigb said:
Fine, keep doing what you're doing then. BTW, it isn't just Cubans slick, your precious GOP has lost massive support with Asians as well. Basically white rural voters who are "susceptible" to "conservative logic" are your base at this point, and honestly there isn't enough of them to keep your political party or your ideology relevant in the long run. But hey, keep doing what you've been doing! It helped you get a Reality T.V. Star barely elected president.
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What we were doing before obviously wasn't working. It got a community organizer who had a Communist mentor and hung around with domestic terrorists, elected president.
 
veritas1 said:
What we were doing before obviously wasn't working. It got a community organizer who had a Communist mentor and hung around with domestic terrorists, elected president.
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Actually, Obama was a junior senator before he got elected...;)
 
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