Shame on Conservatives

I've never seen anything like this.  As an avid political watcher, I've seen a lot of crazy and unpredictable things in presidential politics but nothing like this year's Republican primaries.  On Tuesday, Donald Trump once again captured the most delegates, pushing him closer and closer to winning the GOP nomination, and I have to ask: Where are all the conservatives?

When the 2016 race began last year, analysts were asking whether Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio would win Florida's primary.  Then, Trump swept in and handily won the state.

I don't get it.  How has Trump managed to pull the wool over the eyes of so many "conservatives"? 

Trump is not a conservative.  He never has been, and he never will be.   But many conservatives in the Republican party are touting Trump as savior of the world!  It reminds me of the way Barack Obama was idolized in the 2008 election.  The liberal media was fawning all over Obama.  MSNBC host Chris Matthews infamously said that one of Barack Obama's campaign speeches sent a "thrill up his leg,"  It was pathetic.

Now, many of the right-wing analysts, including some of my beloved Fox News hosts, are giving the same treatment to Trump.  I'm used to bias reporting on CNN and NBC, but Fox is supposed to be "fair and balanced."  Several Fox hosts have readily admitted that they are personal friends with Trump.  That's OK until they start giving Trump special favors, such as hours and hours of air time.  That's what's happening right now.

Fox's Sean Hannity brands himself not as a Republican, but as a registered conservative.  Yet, Hannity relentlessly fawns over Trump and refuses to challenge him on any of his endless lies and inconsistencies.  Bill O'Reilly pretends to be tough and objective, but he even gives Trump a pass on policy issues.  Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham have buddied up with Trump, too.  Ingraham is OK with Trump becoming the GOP nominee because he “captures the imagination of the people.”

It's not just the media types who have gone ga-ga (or should I say gag-gag) over Trump.  Some of Trump's former rivals have gone over to the dark side.  As Matt Walsh wrote in The Blaze, Chris Christie "went from hugging Obama to licking Trump’s boots, all for political gain." 

Ben Carson, whom Walsh describes as "a  man embraced by millions because he supposedly stood for Christian virtue, civility, moral courage and the Constitution — until he endorsed the one guy who defies all of those principles more aggressively than probably any Republican presidential candidate in history."

Let's not forget Jerry Falwell Jr. and Robert Jeffress.  Both men — along with plenty of other prominent Christian figures — seem to have abandoned their faith and hitched a ride on the Trump Bandwagon. 

I just don't get it.  It's like they've all lost their minds to follow a cultural icon.  It didn't turn out well when liberals did it with Obama, and it won't turn out any better for conservatives this time.

All I can say is this: Shame on conservatives!