“I think it’s entirely consistent with conservative and Republican philosophy, and I’m really pleased we’re doing it because there are many people in Ohio now whose lives, frankly, will be in a position of being able to move forward.”

That’s the same kind of BS we’re sold here in South Dakota, when “Republicans” tell us it’s “conservative” to provide taxpayer-funded government health care to pregnant illegal aliens.

Of course, these same “Republicans” also tell us it’s “conservative” to join Democrats in playing the race card against real conservatives when conservatives expose their hypocrisy.

These same “Republicans” also tell us it’s “conservative” to endorse the most liberal candidates in a primary election.

These same “Republicans” also tell us it’s “conservative” to kill bills intended to deal with illegal immigration in our state.

These same “Republicans” also tell us it’s “conservative” to do nothing about welfare recipients suspected of using illegal drugs.

These same “Republicans” also tell us it’s “conservative” to facilitate ObamaCare in our state and resist efforts to fight ObamaCare, and then whitewash their “conservative” tracks.

These same “Republicans” also tell us it’s “conservative” to fight efforts to defend religious liberty from homosexual activists.

And yes, like Kasich, these “Republicans” too tell us it’s conservative to expand ObamaCare Medicaid enrollment.

It seems this entire lot is like the “Republicans” mentioned by Erick Erickson who are going to be collaborating with Leftists to attack conservative Republicans to maintain the same corrupt, big-spending status quo in Washington:

The Mainstreet Partnership has multiple offshoots all housed on the 6th floor of a 7th Street office in Washington, D.C. Together, the groups — including Main Street Advocacy — want to, in the words of their backers, “bolster our incumbents who are under attack from the far right, and ensure that we hold on to seats represented by pragmatic Republicans that we would otherwise loose if there was an ultra-conservative in the general runoff.”

Their disclosures expose the lie. The group claims to be conservative and to support Republicans, but it is funded by the left. LaTourette himself has a long history of attacking conservatives and trying to defeat conservatives.

In other words, if an in-crowd establishment “Republican” says it’s what we ought to do, then it magically goes from being what people across the country have known for decades as “liberal” to being “conservative.” Just because they said so.

Isn’t that neat how that works?

*** Bob Ellis *** Is a conservative writer and Life and Liberty News contributor

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