Forthewall
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"I will let the liberals answer for their own sins in this regard. (There are many.) But we conservatives mocked Barack Obama?s failure to deliver on his pledge to change the tone in Washington even as we worked to assist with that failure.
It was we conservatives who, upon Obama?s election, stated that our No. 1 priority was not advancing a conservative policy agenda but making Obama a one-term president?the corollary to this binary thinking being that his failure would be our success and the fortunes of the citizenry would presumably be sorted out in the meantime.
It was we conservatives who were largely silent when the most egregious and sustained attacks on Obama?s legitimacy were leveled by marginal figures who would later be embraced and legitimized by far too many of us.
It was we conservatives who rightly and robustly asserted our constitutional prerogatives as a co-equal branch of government when a Democrat was in the White House but who, despite solemn vows to do the same in the event of a Trump presidency, have maintained an unnerving silence as instability has ensued.
To carry on in the spring of 2017 as if what was happening was anything approaching normalcy required a determined suspension of critical faculties. And tremendous powers of denial." (read more click on link below)
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/31/my-party-is-in-denial-about-donald-trump-215442
Thank you (R)Sen. Jeff Flake! Apparently Sen. Flake is suffering from intellectual political honesty let hope it is contagious.
It was we conservatives who, upon Obama?s election, stated that our No. 1 priority was not advancing a conservative policy agenda but making Obama a one-term president?the corollary to this binary thinking being that his failure would be our success and the fortunes of the citizenry would presumably be sorted out in the meantime.
It was we conservatives who were largely silent when the most egregious and sustained attacks on Obama?s legitimacy were leveled by marginal figures who would later be embraced and legitimized by far too many of us.
It was we conservatives who rightly and robustly asserted our constitutional prerogatives as a co-equal branch of government when a Democrat was in the White House but who, despite solemn vows to do the same in the event of a Trump presidency, have maintained an unnerving silence as instability has ensued.
To carry on in the spring of 2017 as if what was happening was anything approaching normalcy required a determined suspension of critical faculties. And tremendous powers of denial." (read more click on link below)
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/31/my-party-is-in-denial-about-donald-trump-215442
Thank you (R)Sen. Jeff Flake! Apparently Sen. Flake is suffering from intellectual political honesty let hope it is contagious.