Talk:Conservative of the Year 2016

This is a very strong list this year!--Andy Schlafly (talk) 23:48, 10 November 2016 (EST)

Pros and Cons of the two finalists

Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton, for which there is immense gratitude, but he has not yet chosen his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. Phyllis Schlafly supported and helped elect Trump, secured the most conservative Republican platform in history in Cleveland in July 2016, and laid the groundwork for the stunning outcome in 1964 with her classic book A Choice Not An Echo--Andy Schlafly (talk) 20:53, 23 December 2016 (EST)

The Nobel Prize was wrongfully given by liberals to Barack Obama for merely winning an election. Should the standards of Conservapedia fall to that low level of liberals??--Andy Schlafly (talk) 00:19, 24 December 2016 (EST)

Trump holds many conservative positions and right of center positions. He has been a tremendous ally of conservatives and will probably move the nation in a more conservative direction than many leading conservatives. He is probably going to move the Supreme Court to the right. At the same time, his views on homosexuality are not conservative. In terms of reducing the Federal deficit, like Ronald Reagan, he may fall short in this area.

In short, Trump is not a conservative. He is a right of center politician and businessman. Therefore, Phyllis Schlafly should be the Conservapedia's Conservative of the Year in 2016. Conservative (talk) 16:57, 24 December 2016 (EST)

The main reason why I nominated Trump was not because he was the GOP nominee (I did so before the election), but because he stood up so strong against the leftist consensus in the nation concerning political correctness, open borders, the mainstream media, and free trade. He has done and said things (breaking Jimmy Carter's One China policy, appointing very conservative people that the media and leftists are hysteric over, etc.) that people like Romney, McCain, or Kasich would have never even thought of doing. I think Trump will be a change-maker, and that his change will be in a (at least overall) conservative direction. He will do much more change than Reagan.

With his cabinet for example, Trump has chosen a cabinet that is probably much more conservative than Reagan's. It is true that Trump's positions on social issues are not conservative or Christian. That is unfortunate. Still, however, both candidates are strong, so I will not vote, at least for now I'm just writing this just so people know that we are not considering Trump just because he won the election. There is a lot of substance behind this nomination, despite his obvious flaws. --1990'sguy (talk) 21:07, 24 December 2016 (EST)