For the 1438th time, can you provide any actual examples?
I have many times. Discussing it with you is like talking to a Flat Earther because you ignore all evidence presented saying nothing has been shown. Like a Flat Earther you refuse to answer questions that show your errors. Oh, and also a SovCit where you ask the same questions incessantly because you get answers you don’t want to hear so you act like no one answered you.
So go ahead, challenge me again. Refuse to answer any time I challenge you. And feel like you won like all the Flat Earth / SovCits do.
And who here didn’t have “But I already told you!” on their Bingo card?
Why have conservatives left this message board?
Not complicated.
Being in a small minority can’t be fun, nor is knowing that everything you post and link to has to be impeccably constructed or you’ll get slammed by the overwhelming majority.
Most of all it has to be a dreary business defending policies that the pseudo-conservatives in power abandoned long ago.
Judging by a recent thread, if David Brooks posted on the Dope 
he’d be unmercifully ripped for his current whining about how the-Left-made-us-do-it in respect to Trumpism, and he’d be out of here like a shot.
Truth is its own defense.
Note: Vermont is not a red state like you claim. At least have the integrity to admit I was right on that one point and you were wrong. Ha ha like you have any integrity when you are wrong. What was I thinking?
OK, time to do to you what I do to Flearthers and SovCits and ignore you. You’ll claim you won of course because like I say in the other threads you make your own reality. Have fun arguing with the æther.
And facts are facts and evidence is evidence.
Got any?
CALLED IT!!!
Very good points there - it’s indeed a development of online culture that this community is not immune to.
And yes, the expectation of 100% unanimity on every policy plank is a curse in any sociopolitical debate (though not necessarily new, it has been intensified by the online environment.)
Good that Democrats/liberals/leftists can never even get close to 100%!
I think @Bricker counts too but he swerved hard right for some reason and got piled on (I was one of them piling on).
I think that’s because for some of us, the social conservatism IS the problem. And at the same time, some of the items the
Wait- what? Someone thought Vermont is a red state?
I will admit I’m often surprised at how many people have misconceptions about Northern New England. It’s neither conservative nor liberal in the current Republican/Democrat paradigm.
It’s probably the closest to libertarian we have in this country, in that it loves guns AND gays.
Re: Phil Scott, Governor of Vermont
A Democrat can’t win in Vermont?
Still waiting for him to admit he’s wrong
“Vermont Republicans” are a different breed.
Bug or feature? 
But you know that’s a characteristic of online political cultures these days; if you agree with someone on A you will be presumed to agree on B through Z.
Bug if you want to win elections, weak feature if you do win them.
It was in 2006 that Stephen Colbert observed (in front of God and everybody) that “reality has a well-known liberal bias.”*
The conservatives may have been chewing on that empirical fact ever since, and not been able to find the time to post.
*I’m no math genius, but I’m pretty sure that 2006 also occurred before 2016 (and IIRC, another thing that occurred before 2016 was my conclusions that 1.) not acting CONSERVATIVELY disqualifies one from being considered by a disinterested, objective observer as a conservative, and 2.) that it is a sin to ever use one’s franchise to facilitate the assumption of political power by a FUCKING Republican. Impediments ONLY 
).
N.B Without naming names, it’s not really accurate to characterize that as calling out anyone.
An Electoral Vote in each household is an intriguing notion. It might even solve the problems caused by the retention of the College of Elecotrs.
Well, I am. Hell, I even object to conservative = Republican.
It’s not that rare. Massachusetts has had tons of GOP governors in the past, Kentucky has a Democratic governor. Kansas too (although I think that’s basically because the previous GOP governor was historically unpopular).
I admit my near complete personal ignorance of NE politics. All I’ve got is a SIL from NH who has talked about seeing confederate flags in the northern part of that state. And NH was the setting for the wonderful book A Libertatian Walks Into a Bear.
Hmm. What set of beliefs would qualify?
You got that right. Hell, how many times have my always trenchant, pertinent, and perspicacious observations gone unrewarded by a single “QFT”? It doesn’t feel welcoming. And yet (unlike the radical reactionaries who self-identify as “conservatives,”) I soldier on.
Great googly-moogles, are you suggesting that more flouncing-away posts would have been a good thing?
It probably does, actually. It does NOT apply to MAGAts and other Republicans.