The Conservative

America has seldom had any conservative political leaders. We've enjoyed numberless well-paid Big Business Stooges--they actively seek changes in the law that favor Big Business interests. There  is nothing conservative about that. It's just greed. More recently we have seen a lot of loony nativists called teabaggers. These brainless reactionaries seek ever more radical changes. Between them the two groups now struggle for control of the Republican Party, and they both claim to be conservatives, although genuine conservatives try to conserve things rather than fight to alter things in revolutionary ways.

I was reminded of this when I saw a genuine conservative speak on Bill Maher's TV show last week. David Frome explained that his disapproval of Obamacare was that it tried to do too much too fast. No one else on the panel even heard what he was saying. He took a conservative position. I disagree with it, but the position is reasonable and well motivated. I wonder what Sen. Ted Cruz thinks of David Frome.