Will there ever be a moment in time when Briefers can agree the 2016 election is over and put it in a lockbox behind us?
You would love that wouldn't you? Insist that we forget all the broken promises, the threats made on refuseniks, the declarations that anyone voting 3rd party or writing-in were "Hillary supporters", "Enemies of the state", etc., etc. Forget that ObamaCare remains intact and is fully funded sans the mandate penalty that is being rediscussed. Forgot that your party and Trump just outspent Obama on a 1.5 TRILLION dollar deficit spending budget that funds everything Trump vowed to get rid of without any "wall" or change in illegal refugees pouring into the country.
Yeah - you want us to forget and continue to blindly support a failed and corrupted party that demonstrated its contempt for Conservatives in the last several years as it swerves ever-more Left in support of the Democrat agenda it has passed and funded.
I will no longer engage a poster who reopens debate on the primary or general election and this includes the difficulties between candidates Trump and Cruz . I encourage others to do the same.
Yeah but you'll likely continue to fling the same garbage flung at refuseniks during the election that party loyalists and Trump acolytes cannot help but continue to fling.
Will there be a moment in time when Briefers agree we have a common enemy --- one that is corrupt, powerful and in control of the political narrative? And that this enemy --- like him or not, voted for him or not --- is not the President?
Your problem is that you are set on the common enemy only being a Democrat or their base. You willfully fail to see that the common enemy is not party politics, but liberalism/Leftism/Statism infecting BOTH PARTIES. Liberal Socialism that they both embrace and both serve to the exclusion of the foundational principles Conservatives are governed by.
The 'common enemy' is Statism and Big Government liberal Socialism. You unfortunately want us to look at only Democrats as being the protagonists when your own party is right there alongside them helping to entrench it and spending us into oblivion to achieve it.
Can we agree we are on the same side, the same team with the same goals:....
Can we?? You and your fellows demonstrated that Conservative principles do not matter to you. Pragmatism matters. Populism matters. Party loyalty and party support and unwavering devotion to a man in high office matters, and is the ONLY way to achieve the goal - even when your party supports and funds the Democrat agenda. How many ridiculous justifications for why the Republicans are doing exactly what the Democrats did do we read from you and yours? You folks just continue to display the "It's okay when WE do it" meme, and then go into spin mode to justify it.
If we can't agree that the election is over, the President is not the enemy, and while method and process may differ...
'Method and process'??? That's just code for embracing Statism to supposedly 'save' Conservatism. The same thing that Bush said with: ‘I’ve Abandoned Free Market Principles To Save The Free Market System’. 'Embrace Liberal Statism to save the republic from liberal statists'. The GOP has essentially campaigned on the fact that they can manage Statism better than the Democrats can.
I no longer know why TBR is here or why I'm a part of it @mystery-ak
Personally I enjoy the arguments, defense and discussion of principles here outside the demand everyone be a cookie-cutter Republican and march in lockstep to party diktat to 'save the country from Democrats'. What we are discovering in these myriad threads - is that many people claiming to be Conservative, are not. We see a commonality that they are okay with embracing statism as long as it is their party and leader doing the fundamental transformation, albeit in smaller increments.
I like the fact this board is not a Party Loyalist board, but one that permits and fosters the open discussion of foundational principles that once shaped what defined Conservatism.
