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In reply to the discussion: Can we stop calling Trump Cultists "Conservatives"? [View all]TxGuitar
(4,245 posts)60. So I'm an idiot, and a liar of "the worst and dumbest order" I guess
Last edited Sat Apr 20, 2024, 05:51 PM - Edit history (1)
Nice ad hominems.
The enemy of my enemy is not my friend, I'm sorry and the Lincoln Project people would turn their sights straight onto Biden and Dems if Trump was out of the picture.
Schmidt was part of the campaign, and according to an article in the NY Times:
It was Mr. Schmidt who first championed Sarah Palin as Mr. McCains running mate, a bold move, he told Mr. McCain, that could win him the White House. Instead, her selection was widely viewed as one of the most calamitous political judgments in modern presidential politics. By the time Mr. McCain conceded, Mr. Schmidt himself feared that his role in that campaign would leave an indelible scar on his reputation.
So yeah, he had a hand in it.
The main point to my post though was these are not nice people we're dealing with here--Schmidt, Liz Cheney, etc. They're not part of our party, they are against most of our positions, and would happily gut SS, Medicare, etc if their wing of the party was in power. We shouldn't normalize them on this site.
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I once posed a question to a number of folks who called themselves conservatives....
lastlib
Apr 19
#7
One of the John Birch Society founders was the guy that owned the makers of Junior Mints.
spike jones
Apr 19
#23
Absolutely. But MEDIA won't. WE DEMOCRATS ARE THE TRUE CONSERVATIVES. We're conserving
ancianita
Apr 19
#25
Conservatives are constantly trying to end democracy by blocking people's access to voting
Blues Heron
Apr 20
#55
Reality check... definitions do change. The R right (conservatives) aren't what they were
Model35mech
Apr 20
#59