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Conservative Review recently compiled their list of the top 25 conservatives. Among those listed, you’ll see many names you’ll recognize as champions of conservative principles-the values the Republican Party claims on paper to believe in. The people on this list are the ones we can count on to behave like Republicans.

For a guy who during the campaign frequently couldn’t maintain the same position on a given issue twice in a 24 hour period, when it comes to pure policy, President Donald Trump is doing fairly well so far. We have yet to see what he will use the bully pulpit of the presidency to call for congress to send him (e.g. his new unconstitutional paid maternity leave entitlement?), but at least with regard to actions he can put into motion on his own, Trump isn’t doing too shabby.

Steve Deace said something on his show Friday night that all Americans-especially those who call themselves Christians-need to hear and take deeply to heart.

The problem the Black Caucus has with Senator Sessions is not that he is a racist but that he is a conservative, and that is not good for their racket. We’re not going to get out of our racial rut until everyone starts seeing and respecting people as individuals.

Republicans will control both statehouses in 32 out of 50 states when state legislatures meet in 2017, and this does not include Nebraska which is unicameral and state candidates run as non-partisan. Of these 33 states, 25 have a Republican Governor, and in North Carolina the Governor can be overridden with a 60 percent majority, a margin the GOP enjoys in the statehouse.

As Donald Trump’s transition team shifts into high gear, we need to be praying for them as well as for him because the decisions made in these days will have great consequences. Those who are chosen to surround the president will have enormous influence upon him and the decisions he will make in office.

During the presidency of George W. Bush, Republicans also controlled both houses of Congress for about four of those eight years. Unfortunately, during that time, Republicans did little with their control of 2/3 of the federal government that was really conservative. They did little to advance conservative agenda items, and spent money like drunken Democrats.

It was starting to become obvious to me a couple of years ago, when so many “conservatives” and “Christians” whored out their principles to whole-heartedly support a RINO in my state who had repeatedly betrayed their stated values as governor. There is now no doubt; the Right has become morally corrupt like the Left.

With Donald Trump’s release of his plan for a big new government entitlement and more giveaways of taxpayer money to people who aren’t contributing to the nation’s upkeep in the first place, the whoring of conservatism continues on the Trump Train. The list of former conservatives who are willing to sell their souls to support the Republican Party’s Democratic presidential nominee just keeps getting longer, with some of conservatism’s biggest names donning the smeared red lipstick.