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CPAC caused me to leave the GOP
Hillsdale Collegian ^ | March 1 2018 | Josh Liebhauser

Posted on 03/02/2018 6:16:40 PM PST by WilliamIII

After two days of the “Conservative” Political Action Conference, it became abundantly clear: The Republican Party is no longer the place for me.

I don’t know what I expected, honestly. I knew that the Grand Old Party was now the party of President Donald Trump, that traditional conservatives such as Sens. Ben Sasse, R-Nebraska, and Marco Rubio, R-Florida, were now an unwelcome fringe and that stirrings of populism and nationalism were making the rounds throughout a changing party.

Trump’s nomination dealt a massive blow to my political optimism, but for some reason, I still held onto the belief that the GOP remained a net good and that Trump’s “winning” outweighed the white nationalist element of the party that keeps rearing its ugly head. Plus, my Hillsdale bubble kept me immersed in real conservatism.

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To: WilliamIII

This person is kvetching about the fact that the GOP Establishment failed to ram yet another RINO down our throats.


41 posted on 03/02/2018 6:57:30 PM PST by walford (https://www.facebook.com/wralford)
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To: philman_36

“Don’t know which one of them on stage is him, but I’m going with the guy in the space suit.”

I’m betting he is the third one from the left, that lil Hitler youth lookin’ puke.


42 posted on 03/02/2018 7:02:49 PM PST by Beagle8U (Wake up and smell the Covfef)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Yeah that Wallace was a horrible person, except everything he foresaw in the 60’s has come to pass. Are the major metropolitan areas of the South, a better place to live, work and shop now?


43 posted on 03/02/2018 7:02:53 PM PST by TallahasseeConservative ( Isaiah 40:31)
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To: WilliamIII
"that traditional conservatives such as Sens. Ben Sasse, R-Nebraska, and Marco Rubio, R-Florida"

Stopped reading right there. This is a joke. Sasse is a wackjob, Bubbles is a phony.

44 posted on 03/02/2018 7:03:40 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: WilliamIII

well, little student from Hillsdale. You all just told us in no uncertain terms that ya’ll weren’t mentally mature enough to own a weapon before age 21. That adults have to save you from yourselves. So why should adults listen to a student on what the Rep party is or is not?


45 posted on 03/02/2018 7:03:55 PM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: mbrfl
Josh, I guess you miss all the days of hand wringing and empty posturing that yielded no results. Buh Bye Josh. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

"And I was just a kid, they all called me Sidekick"
Jerry Jeff Walker, Desperadoes Waiting for a Train

He's a young college student. It is hard to take him seriously.


46 posted on 03/02/2018 7:04:05 PM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: WilliamIII

Well, bye....Hillsdale College.


47 posted on 03/02/2018 7:08:23 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: WilliamIII

Sorry about your sore vagina.


48 posted on 03/02/2018 7:12:15 PM PST by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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To: FatherofFive

I had to reread that to make sure my eyes weren’t playing tricks on me. Rubio? Is he serious?


49 posted on 03/02/2018 7:13:57 PM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: WilliamIII
Plus, my Hillsdale bubble kept me immersed in real conservatism

You're not a real conservative, Josh - you're a "Loservative" - a faux conservative who was willing to let Felonia von Pantsuit pack the Supreme Court with Lefties so you could wail about losing for the rest of your sorry loser life.

Take your mangina out the door of REAL conservatism, and don't let it hit ya where the Good Lord split ya.

50 posted on 03/02/2018 7:14:00 PM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: WilliamIII

I just love people who flounce. If you want to leave, leave.

Don’t spout nonsense on your way out and expect to be taken seriously by actual conservatives.


51 posted on 03/02/2018 7:15:18 PM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: mbrfl
Josh, I guess you miss all the days of hand wringing and empty posturing that yielded no results

As Willem Dafoe said in The Boondock Saints:

"What a fag."

52 posted on 03/02/2018 7:16:20 PM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: right way right
What a waste. We’re in a civil war and this guy is worried about what amounts to narrow conservative piety in a worthless gutless operationally weak Republican party.

I just had to Hillary-slap some phony "conservative" like this on Twitter.

Him & his #NeverTrump thumb-sucking buds cried about it, too... ;-)

53 posted on 03/02/2018 7:20:19 PM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: jazminerose
"Bubbles"

LOLOLOLOLOL!!!

54 posted on 03/02/2018 7:21:46 PM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: WilliamIII

“The crowd went berserk. Attendees shouted ‘not true!’ and booed loudly. A protective security detail later escorted Charen from the convention center. The GOP has angered and disheartened conservatives such as Charen and myself by turning a blind eye to Trump’s extramarital dalliances and boasts about sexual assault. When Trump and Farage endorsed Moore, it further reinforced the idea that the GOP was no longer the party of decency and moral character. CPAC attendees, and the GOP at large, seem content abandoning morality in pursuit of victory.”

This Joshua Liebhauser is a phony. No conservative would write this. No conservative would whine about the leftist boogey man “white nationalist.” That’s a leftwing term to confuse nationalism with white supremacy—two very different beliefs and values. Being against globalism is not racist.

Mona Charen is a phony too. She was more than happy to get on CNN to pretend that she is part of “our party” and to call “us” hypocrites about sexual morality. She is one of the many who piled on Roy Moore when no evidence supported the attacks against him.

My strong suspicion is that Liebhauser, like Charen, is a phony plant of the deep state with a mission to sow seeds of chaos and division among conservatives.

Something to be sorted out thoroughly after Civil War 2 is over.


55 posted on 03/02/2018 7:22:38 PM PST by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: WilliamIII

What a putz. Good riddance


56 posted on 03/02/2018 7:22:39 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

Yep, now we need more to follow him. Orconvert.


57 posted on 03/02/2018 7:22:53 PM PST by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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I've been saying for a while now that CPAC had become a bad joke, and that they should rename it to MEPAC.

For :

Moderate Establishmentarians Politically Advocating Conformity

58 posted on 03/02/2018 7:24:47 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: WilliamIII

How is wanting to support and get back to our Constitution “white supremacy” ?


59 posted on 03/02/2018 7:25:57 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: WilliamIII

I’m thinking Joshua may be equating “conservatism” with Christianity, which it is not. Similar but not equal.

He finished with “Winning” is not a good enough reason to abandon principles of decency, small government, property rights, and respect for women.”

decency? Has anyone heard anything about court cases against Moore? poof. nada.

He’s right about small government, property rights, and respect for women. He didn’t hear about the constitution. I can’t wait to hear the constitutionalists explain Trumps gun control: Take the Guns First, Go Through Due Process Second

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/02/28/trump-on-gun-restraining-orders-i-like-taking-the-guns-early-take-the-guns-first-go-through-due-process-second/

Josh should check out the Constitution Party.


60 posted on 03/02/2018 7:26:46 PM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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