https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-spurs-some-conservative-leaders-to-step-back-from-the-gop/2016/05/07/9aedf0bc-13d3-11e6-81b4-581a5c4c42df_story.html“It’s a crisis,” said Al Cardenas, a former chairman of the American Conservative Union who is withholding support for Trump. “If we do away with the fundamental strength of the conservative movement, which is our ideas and values and principles, then you don’t have anything left but politics. A movement can survive the loss of an election cycle, but it can’t survive the loss of its purpose, and that’s what we’re battling here.”
Nothing has been conserved and your ideas and values and principles have not been implemented in any way shape or form.
“If there’s an ideological leader of our party right now, it’s Paul Ryan,” said former senator Judd Gregg (R-N.H.). “He’s not part of the shouting crowd; he’s part of the doing crowd. But the party’s voters have gone with the shouting crowd. It’s reflective of the failure of the doer crowd to get things done.”
Oh they've gotten plenty done. None of it was what they were elected to do, in fact they did the opposite.
Kristol, Krauthammer, McCain, Romney, the Bush clan and Ryan, what have these guys ever done that has conserved anything?
There is talk of the "conservatives" breaking free from the Republican party in this article and I look at them and wonder how they could be so disconnected from reality? They aren't conservatives at all. If you look at who they support and the voting patterns they are progressives. War mongering progressives at that.
There will be a lot of articles like this where the media try and craft a new narrative. Reading it is like reading a piece of fiction using the names of real people. The Orwellian use of the word conservative is everywhere. "The gay Republican transgender "conservative" with the last name Jenner is just an obvious example. The rest of the Republican establishment isn't any more conservative than the Jenner freak show.
I haven't called myself a conservative for a while now. Occasionally I still slip up and use the word but the word has been coopted and emptied of all virtuous meaning. It's actually a bad word that will harm your attempts to communicate your ideas and principles to folks with whom you are speaking.