Conservative Republicans?
That just cracks me up, that conservative label that Republicans like to wear in the collar of their jackets like a hex sign on an old barn to ward off any hint of liberalism.
Phew!
What in the hell is conservative about
blowing their children’s financial futures with unparalleled debt (trillions under both Reagan and George W)
pulling the teeth of the EPA and substantially devolving its responsibilities to the industries it was meant to oversee
giving to the rich by taking from the poor
keeping an ‘enemies list’ second not even to Richard Nixon
running (one can hardly call it fighting) an unfunded war
To conserve and to believe in conserving and to encourage conservation would all seem to be requirements for wearing the label ‘conservative.’ Or am I wrong? Has the word been so bastardized as to no longer bear that connective tissue?
Well, of course conservative Republicans are no longer doing any of that and I used to be among them. I was, for more decades than I like to count, fiercely p…