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Republicans need to turn back to being conservative

Posted on 11/8/26 at 10:00 am
Posted by kywildcatfanone
Wildcat Country!
Member since Oct 2012
143958 posts
Posted on 11/8/26 at 10:00 am
Maybe conservatism needs to make a comeback for 2028

Platform:
Reduce debt and spending
Smaller government
Close borders and deport illegals
Property rights
Family values
Free market capitalism
National defense
Posted by saint tiger225
San Diego
Member since Jan 2011
50388 posts
Posted on 11/8/26 at 10:02 am to
Could've had this in 2024 but since DeSantis is an Israel cuck that would get us in another war in the middle east, we got trump instead.

Oh, and something about his shoes. We can't have a good conservative because he doesn't wear the right type of shoes that the gheys wanted him to wear.
Posted by ljhog
Lake Jackson, Tx.
Member since Apr 2009
21006 posts
Posted on 11/8/26 at 10:03 am to
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Reduce debt and spending
Smaller government
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Great ideas which congressional republicans could never get behind.
Posted by RammerJammer91
Member since Jan 2016
6179 posts
Posted on 11/8/26 at 10:11 am to
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Could've had this in 2024 but since DeSantis is an Israel cuck that would get us in another war in the middle east, we got trump instead.



Yeah, good thing we chose the guy who actually got us into another war and has done a shite job with the economy, as opposed to the guy who has a proven record of fiscal competence and doesn’t show any evidence of being willing to get us into a long-term war.

Great job, primary voters!
Posted by PSS101
Member since Jun 2024
2203 posts
Posted on 11/8/26 at 10:13 am to
Totally agree
Posted by blueboy
Member since Apr 2006
67912 posts
Posted on 11/8/26 at 10:15 am to
We won’t. We will get another wave of useless neocon Bushies.
Posted by idlewatcher
Planet Arium
Member since Jan 2012
100536 posts
Posted on 11/8/26 at 10:20 am to
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Great job, primary voters!


I sadly admit I’m one of those figs

Many of us were duped
Posted by DeBoar
Member since Jan 2024
8020 posts
Posted on 11/8/26 at 10:23 am to
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Great job, primary voters!


DeSantis dropped out before any primary election was held.
Posted by dgnx6
Member since Feb 2006
92620 posts
Posted on 11/8/26 at 10:24 am to
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Could've had this in 2024 but since DeSantis is an Israel cuck that would get us in another war in the middle east, we got trump instead.



Desantis is pro Israel.

Maybe you retards should make up your mind. You hate Trump because he's pro Israel, but think we should have voted for another pro Israel Republican.

Posted by lepdagod
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
6530 posts
Posted on 11/8/26 at 10:25 am to
Out of everything you listed only two really conservative talking points historically
Posted by Zach
Gizmonic Institute
Member since May 2005
118413 posts
Posted on 11/8/26 at 10:26 am to
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Close borders and deport illegals
Property rights


Reminds me of the chapters I read this morning in the book on the evolution of politics. He's talking about man's move from wild hunter/gatherer to cooperative settlement with some form of govt. Let's call them 'tribes.' Before 1000 A.D. there were over 250 Tribes in Europe. By 1200 they had become 30 nations. What made them nations?
1. One dominant ethnicity.
2. One language.
3. Rulers respected private property of citizens.
Some nations moved away from these 3 and fell to others who took over.
This post was edited on 11/8/26 at 10:27 am
Posted by RammerJammer91
Member since Jan 2016
6179 posts
Posted on 11/8/26 at 10:26 am to
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DeSantis dropped out before any primary election was held.


This might be more accurate: Great job, Republican voters who responded to primary polls and Republican caucus goers in Iowa.
Posted by Klark Kent
Houston via BR
Member since Jan 2008
77012 posts
Posted on 11/8/26 at 10:27 am to
OP throws out seven things conservatives could rally around in 2028, and in the very first fricking reply you’ve got us right back in the 2024 primary arguing about DeSantis’s shoes.

Meanwhile the Left is rallying behind card carrying members of the DSA, just soo as long as it isn’t a Republican in office. JFC
Posted by Powerman
Member since Jan 2004
177123 posts
Posted on 11/8/26 at 10:28 am to
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Platform:
Reduce debt and spending
Posted by VOR
New Orleans
Member since Apr 2009
70159 posts
Posted on 11/8/26 at 10:31 am to
Trump has been a disaster for Republicans who care about the long term and traditional conservatism…
Posted by TrueTiger
Chicken's most valuable
Member since Sep 2004
85323 posts
Posted on 11/8/26 at 10:34 am to
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Great ideas which congressional republicans could never get behind.


There is NO viable political party willing to deal with the debt.

They don't even talk about it. They act as if it will go away if they ignore it.
Posted by Powerman
Member since Jan 2004
177123 posts
Posted on 11/8/26 at 10:37 am to
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There is NO viable political party willing to deal with the debt.

They don't even talk about it. They act as if it will go away if they ignore it.

Agreed

And we do have a bit of a circular logic problem. Much our GDP is fueled by deficit spending. If you drastically cut the deficit, which we need to do, then you also cut your GDP. Which is why trying to grow your way out of this is such a difficult proposition.
Posted by lurking
Member since Nov 2022
4435 posts
Posted on 11/8/26 at 10:39 am to
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Desantis is pro Israel.


Desantis is pro Israel to the extent necessary to prevent you retards from reeing about Qatar and calling him an antisemite.

He’s been pretty harsh recently about their influence over Iran.
Posted by TrueTiger
Chicken's most valuable
Member since Sep 2004
85323 posts
Posted on 11/8/26 at 10:40 am to
It has the appearance of that plane crash in Florida.

It started spiraling down and got into an unrecoverable situation until it hit the ground and exploded into a million pieces.

Last transmission: "holy frick, we're out of time"

Posted by Figgy
CenCal
Member since May 2020
10804 posts
Posted on 11/8/26 at 10:45 am to
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Maybe conservatism needs to make a comeback for 2028 Platform: Reduce debt and spending Smaller government Close borders and deport illegals Property rights Family values Free market capitalism National defense


That’s all I’ve been asking for and I had someone call me a leftist as I voiced my disappointment with how things have gone this year with Trump.

People can be reflexive clowns when their dogma is challenged.

I’ll take conservatism all day long. The problem is that we’ve strayed away from it for decades now and it has allowed the party to shift ever more leftward. I don’t know if we can ever recover the ground we’ve lost but we can’t keep doing what has been done. The straying from what you listed gave populism chance to take hold due to frustration.

Posters here blame conservatives but they’re mistaken. Conservatives don’t stray. We’re steadfast in our beliefs. Becoming a big tent party is great from a numbers perspective.. it isn’t so great when your policies and values change. Trump went with a super big tent, and that makes sense numerically. But millions of voters that he attracted were not conservatives and that provided cover for him as long as things were going well. When things didn’t those voters dropped him and went back to the other side. That’s why the blowout happened.
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