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potone

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3. Exactly!

Reply to elleng (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 6, 2017, 01:35 AM

Jan 2017

They are not conservatives, because there is nothing that they want to conserve. They are libertarians. Eisenhower would not recognize the Republican party now, and he couldn't get elected by them. How far they have fallen!!

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President Dwight Eisenhower, Republican, uttered these words on November 8, 1954: [View all] elleng Jan 2017 OP

That may have been true in his time. MadamPresident Jan 2017 #1

This 'conservatism' is nothing like conservative, elleng Jan 2017 #2

Exactly! potone Jan 2017 #3

I wouldn't call them 'libertarians,' more like simply elleng Jan 2017 #7

I hate the misuse of the word "conservative". Crunchy Frog Jan 2017 #9

It's not a cult, it's a contagious mental illness. herding cats Jan 2017 #4

Is that not exactly what a cult does? MadamPresident Jan 2017 #5

Yes and no. herding cats Jan 2017 #8

He was unduly optimistic, unfortunately. Crunchy Frog Jan 2017 #6