Originally Posted by rporter314
I tell ya Senator ... sometimes you say the darnest things.

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Since they are true conservatives their views on these issues are not in agreement with NW Ponderer's. Which is why they are true conservatives.
as opposed to false conservatives or fake conservatives or unreal conservatives or because they took the Trumpian ideological purity test and pledged their fealty personally to Mr Trump.

I haven't got a clue what your statement means or if it means anything at all.

Maybe you should read a definition, so here is one from wiki
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Conservatism is a political and social philosophy promoting traditional social institutions in the context of culture and civilization. The central tenets of conservatism include tradition, organic society, hierarchy, authority, and property rights.
Note I didn't see the additional adjective "true" although I suppose it could have been an adverb .... regardless wiki didn't think it was necessary to make your grammatical additions.
You make the erroneous assumption that all conservatives are Trump supporters. There is a difference between voting for a candidate and being a supporter of a candidate. I voted for Trump. I did not and do support him. I will probably vote for him again in 2020 because none of the potential nominees of the Democratic Party are people I could vote for. My defense of him against the attempt to impeach him is because it is a political attack on him. It is only in your partisan imagination that there is a "Trumpian ideological purity test." No Republican I know of, from the Chair of the MN Republican Party to the grass roots level "pledged their fealty personally to Mr Trump." To make those outlandish and ridiculous claims shows how rabidly partisan you are!

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