If this is what victory looks like, I signed up for the wrong war.
Might be time for Libertarian-ish conservatives like me to pack my stuff and move back to Massachusetts, and find a job that isn't a complete waste of time. I spent years at The Heritage Foundation, which just imploded before our eyes, with Sen. Rand Paul. My movement is going backwards, not forwards.
Liberty-minded Americans are losing on health care, the budget, tax reform and sins of omission by House and Senate Republican leaders. Republicans won a historic victory this past fall and the reward has been incompetence and a lack of accomplishments. From Matt Drudge to Rush Limbaugh, to Sen. Rand Paul, the leaders of the conservative and liberty movement are despondent and angry.
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