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| | '''Conservative of the Year 2022''' has many strong contenders. Please add to or revise this draft list, or comment on the talk page! | | '''Conservative of the Year 2022''' has many strong contenders. Please add to or revise this draft list, or comment on the talk page! |
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| | * [[Elon Musk]], [[free speech]] advocate and [[conservative populism|conservative populist]], for purchasing [[Twitter]] despite massive opposition from the Left, for encouraging his followers to vote for [[Republican Party|Republicans]], for unblocking former President Trump and many conservative pages like [[Babylon Bee]], and for rebuking [[Chuck Schumer]] and [[Mitch McConnell]] for impoverishing [[American]]s by passing the bloated $1.7 trillion spending bill just before the end of the year.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/media/elon-musk-taunts-schumer-mcconnell-twitter-poll-shows-opposition-omnibus-bill-people-spoken?dicbo=v2-6a1a2b915757b6cd324b2dd72ce5813a</ref> | | * [[Elon Musk]], [[free speech]] advocate and [[conservative populism|conservative populist]], for purchasing [[Twitter]] despite massive opposition from the Left, for encouraging his followers to vote for [[Republican Party|Republicans]], for unblocking former President Trump and many conservative pages like [[Babylon Bee]], and for rebuking [[Chuck Schumer]] and [[Mitch McConnell]] for impoverishing [[American]]s by passing the bloated $1.7 trillion spending bill just before the end of the year.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/media/elon-musk-taunts-schumer-mcconnell-twitter-poll-shows-opposition-omnibus-bill-people-spoken?dicbo=v2-6a1a2b915757b6cd324b2dd72ce5813a</ref> |
| | * Rep. [[Thomas Massie]] (R-KY), an [[MIT]] graduate, for taking on the pompous [[John Kerry]] for his socialistic, unjustified [[climate change]] alarmism (while Massie himself lives in an entirely green, energy self-sufficient home), for boycotting the presentation to [[Congress]] to perpetuate at enormous [[American]] cost the [[NATO War in Ukraine]], for being outspoken against the [[Covid vaccine]] mandates, and for being the runner-up for the highest lifetime score from ''The New American'' for an incumbent member of Congress at the end of the 117th Congress, at a whopping 99 percent.[https://thenewamerican.com/freedom-index/legislator/?search=&congress=&state=&party=&chamber=] | | * Rep. [[Thomas Massie]] (R-KY), an [[MIT]] graduate, for taking on the pompous [[John Kerry]] for his socialistic, unjustified [[climate change]] alarmism (while Massie himself lives in an entirely green, energy self-sufficient home), for boycotting the presentation to [[Congress]] to perpetuate at enormous [[American]] cost the [[NATO War in Ukraine]], for being outspoken against the [[Covid vaccine]] mandates, and for being the runner-up for the highest lifetime score from ''The New American'' for an incumbent member of Congress at the end of the 117th Congress, at a whopping 99 percent.[https://thenewamerican.com/freedom-index/legislator/?search=&congress=&state=&party=&chamber=] |
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| | * Sen. [[Ron Johnson]] (R-WI), for leading against [[Anthony Fauci]], for defeating the corrupt [[Dropbox Dems]] in the State of [[Wisconsin]],<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/anonymous-wisconsin-heroes-proved-collapse-democrat-ballot-gathering-apparatus/</ref> and for leading on the [[conservative populism]] that is the political future.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/anonymous-wisconsin-heroes-proved-collapse-democrat-ballot-gathering-apparatus/</ref> Johnson said about the $1.7 trillion omnibus boondoggle, “To declare that a victory, to say that’s a win, that’s like a football team that just lost the game 60 to 0, and they kick a field goal in the waning seconds and say the field goal is a big win,” Johnson said. “No, we just got our you-know-whats handed to us.”<ref>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3787689-gop-senators-slam-mcconnell-republican-colleagues-for-supporting-omnibus/</ref> | | * Sen. [[Ron Johnson]] (R-WI), for leading against [[Anthony Fauci]], for defeating the corrupt [[Dropbox Dems]] in the State of [[Wisconsin]],<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/anonymous-wisconsin-heroes-proved-collapse-democrat-ballot-gathering-apparatus/</ref> and for leading on the [[conservative populism]] that is the political future.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/anonymous-wisconsin-heroes-proved-collapse-democrat-ballot-gathering-apparatus/</ref> Johnson said about the $1.7 trillion omnibus boondoggle, “To declare that a victory, to say that’s a win, that’s like a football team that just lost the game 60 to 0, and they kick a field goal in the waning seconds and say the field goal is a big win,” Johnson said. “No, we just got our you-know-whats handed to us.”<ref>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3787689-gop-senators-slam-mcconnell-republican-colleagues-for-supporting-omnibus/</ref> |
| | * [[JD Vance]] for leading his very successful America First Senate campaign, and for speaking out against the [[NATO war in Ukraine]] despite predictions that it would cost him the election in Ukrainian-populated [[Ohio]]. | | * [[JD Vance]] for leading his very successful America First Senate campaign, and for speaking out against the [[NATO war in Ukraine]] despite predictions that it would cost him the election in Ukrainian-populated [[Ohio]]. |