well, I think it is obvious pandering, though at the same time he'll be representing Utah, so he should vote reliably

well, maybe not

I'm not sure

I say tread lightly, I think this is just pandering

I don't want Romney, he's just another conservative Inc. like flake and corker

Romney is such a flip flopper, honestly

Yeah, I'm not going to endorse him

What are these so called "conservatives" even trying to conserve? They support mass immigration, cheap labour

Muh principles

Wish we had more pat buchanans in congress

I wish guys like him headed the party, then we'd be going somewhere

yeah, the current head is Romney's niece

The thing about "conservatism" in the US since the 1950s is that it's been sort of taken over by National Review types, who are only there to preserve the status quo.

William F. Buckley types

Exactly

muh yell stop in the face of history

The fatal flaw with this line of thinking is when one side is saying "stop" and the other side says "go", then the side that says "go" will always get their slice of the cake.

Exsctly

Exactly

Republicans need a backbone

In the 60 years that Buckleyan conservatism has lasted in the party, the country has only shifted more and more to the left. When the National Review began, homosexuality was banned in all 50 states of the union, now there are people pushing to castrate children.

Sad times

Clown world

And there was no, no fault divorce

This is not sustainable. We need something revanchist, not "yell stop", but "hit reverse". Take it back.

It's a slow process man

We are in the way we are because of a long nose tribe, cultural Marxists took over the social institutions with their long march through the institutions. It didn't happen overnight, it was a slow process and now look where we are at now

We need to retake the social institutions

Yeah

We need to first take the GOP back from the cuck wing and muh "classical liberals", and then take back the nation.

The education system is the big one we have to unfuck.

Get rid of the federal Department of Education and leave it to the states, also defund the national endowment for the arts and humanities.

Yeah

But a lot of this begins and ends at the home. The family, which is the biggest casualty of the war against the US the left has taken.

Entertainment is another big one, main stream entertainment promotes degeneracy now, weak white males, strong women

We need to have one parent at the home and one parent working.

Yeah, family is being attacked too

To get the entertainment industry, Hollywood in particular, we have to attack them where it hurts.

The wallet.

Hollywood is getting all their funding from the Chinese. We should be playing protectionist against them.

But anon! Protectionism goes against conservative principles! Muh beer cans will cost more

Another thing, which some may say is somewhat extreme, would be to get rid of intellectual property laws.

This is their boon, without intellectual property, they cannot afford to make 100 million dollar shitshow movies because no one will actually have to pay them for it

👀

Good idea @FLanon

@🎃Boo-ton🎃 good they're being honest now

I was tired of hearing the same bullshit over and over , "we just want common sense gun laws, we don't want to ban guns!"

These people are never to be trusted

Reagan made that mistake and it cost the Golden State

Never compromise, never shake their hand because it will end with a sharp sting in your back

Exactly

Then you have cucks like Kasich and Arnold who say that we need more moderates

This is what I think of moderates

Take a STANCE of an issue? Whoa, no way, dude! That wouldn't be cool! <:centrist:423698665316679680>

We are on a sinking ship with a big leak in the foundation. One side wishes to patch the leak up, the other side is dumping more water into the ship. Moderates, in essence say "Wait, to compromise, this side dumps half the water they usually do and this other side patch half of the leak".

That is not real change.

We have to be firm, uncompromising. No half measures, when we do something, we go all the way. We can't waste our time by making a deal with the devil.

This

hmmm...

MUH BASE IS PISSED OFF

5 POINTS BASE 1 POINT MODERATES

Moderates are simply “conservatives” who are willing to cuck to the left

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court hears arguments in Benisek v. Lamone, a case about whether Maryland violated the First Amendment rights of Republican voters by redrawing the state’s congressional districts with the goal of making it unwinnable for an incumbent Republican member of Congress.

@🎃Boo-ton🎃 did you hear about the dems having a hissy fit over the 2020 census asking if people were citizens

Indeed

My state's AG has filed a lawsuit because of it

Yeah pretty much every dem representing CA is going crazy over this census

If it were not that they might have a chance of doing something I would be spending my time laughing at them

SCOTUS is still discussing the Cake Mastershop case right?

yep

Damn

That's both scary and relieving

Does the House have any say over picking anyone to the Judiciary or is it just the Senate?

It's amazing how much the Supreme Court has become like a gameshow

"Who's going to die next?"

Lol really

it's the times

everything is political now

@FLanon I don't think the Senate picks the judiciary, it's a Senate tradition though that you get the president gets the senator's approval from the state the justice is being appointed from.

It's not a rule, more of just a tradition.

I dunno if it's both senators or just the senior senator

alright, so the House has no say whatsoever then?

right

this puts some things into perspective

priorities

fortunately,

based on the Senate map this year,

Not really, that's how it should be, they're different branches of government. It made sense before senators were chosen by direct election

it will be literally impossible for Democrats to take the Senate

But now yeah, it makes little sense

Well, then we must focus on really hitting out of the park in the senate then.

2020 senate is looking pretty solid, too.

It's more atomized than in the House, I severely doubt they can get the impeachment process completed

Even if they dont

And it could cause a Bill Clinton effect in 2020

I'm still leaning to believe that Trump will be impeached

^

Losing the house would screw us

This is what I was thinking

2020 House and Senate Races could be Republican waves