re: a conservative defense of Mrs. Obama (the over-the-top attacks on PT)

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Have you forgotten how the Tea Party movement completely flipped congress in favor of the GOP?

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I covered that in an earlier post. There's no doubt that the TP was extremely productive for the GOP and brought with it unprecedented enthusiasm. The question is, at what cost? The GOP of today is not the GOP of 10-15 years ago....and I mean that not from just a membership perspective but from a policy perspective.

The closest conservative movement of note to have similar viewpoints of today's right wing was the John Birch Society of the '60's. JBS was very much kept on the fringe and was certainly not embraced by conservatives like Buckley due to his knowledge that they were WAAAYY too far out there to be accepted as a practical representation of right wing thought in the mainstream. He literally hated the JBS and often badmouthed them.

That's why it's so hilarious that someone has the nerve to tell me that Buckley would be proud of Trump. What a joke.