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March 21, 2016
How and what did the politicians put into positions of power by the Tea Party do?
The corruption of power, well, corrupted. The Republican Party instead of getting transformed by the Tea Party victors in its ranks, transformed them into Republicans or made sure that they could get nothing meaningful done. Obamacare? Survived. A host of clearly illegal Presidential orders? Remained. Crippling budget deficit? Grew. Use of government agencies as pawns of the progressive movement? Continued. The gutting of the military? Worsened. Our delusional foreign policy? Even more delusional. The flood of illegal aliens? Unabated. And on, and on, and on. I see the whole debate about "who is truly a conservative" as another of those "paralysis by analysis" exercises. We have, for example, the establishment GOP and the supposed conservative movers and shakers gnashing their teeth and rending their garments over whether Donald Trump is a conservative. We even have prominent conservatives telling us they would rather see Hillary "Benghazi" Clinton in the White House than Trump; somehow that would preserve the purity of the conservative cause. What four more years of progressive lunacy emanating from the White House would do to the country . . . ah, well, harrumph, a topic for another day, I guess . . . The DiploMad 2.0: Thinking Aloud About Conservatism . . .
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While they may not have done much good, I am sure that many of them did quite well.
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at March 21, 2016 1:42 PM
which is why the Conservatives aren't worth a tinker's damn. They stayed in the GOP. the Parties must be broken, smashed and then dissolved.
If Trump is denied the nomination, elections will have the same cachet as those of the USSR. Vote all you want; we count the votes!
Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck at March 21, 2016 4:23 PM