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*Congressman and [[Vice President]] nominee [[Jack Kemp]] | *Congressman and [[Vice President]] nominee [[Jack Kemp]] | ||
Revision as of 02:33, July 12, 2021
A movement conservative is one who recognizes and advocates across-the-board conservative principles, without exception. This is contrasted with cafeteria, single-issue, or self-serving approaches. Movement conservatives, unlike cafeteria conservatives, understand that since conservative philosophy is a coherent whole, it is untenable to discard part of it without discarding all of it. Movement conservatives favor logic rather than self-centered behavior and therefore reject the teachings of Ayn Rand, who considered selfishness to be logical.
Simply put, a movement conservative is a conservative who seeks to help others, and the nation, by explaining, advocating and defending the logical and beneficial conservative approach. A movement conservative is not primarily seeking political gain for him or herself, but advocates the insights and values of conservatism for the benefit of others.
Movement conservatives include:
- Irish Statesman Edmund Burke, who sided with the American colonists while in the British Parliament at the time of the American Revolution, and who opposed the atheistic, anarchist French Revolution.
- Activist Phyllis Schlafly, who invented grassroots activism to move the United States markedly more conservative.
- Congressman John Ashbrook, who challenge globalist Richard Nixon in his primary in 1972.
- Congressman Larry McDonald, M.D., praised as "the most principled man in Congress" by Ron Paul but was shot down by the communist Soviet Union while in flight on KAL 007.
- Journalist Robert Novak
- Liberty University founder Jerry Falwell
- U.S. Senator Robert Taft of Ohio
- Political theorist Russell Kirk
- Paul Weyrich, founder of the Free Congress Foundation and co-founder of the Heritage Foundation and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
- Congressman and Vice President nominee Jack Kemp
- Commentator Pat Buchanan
- Columnist and economist Thomas Sowell
- Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore
- St. Paul, author of the largest number of letters in the New Testament and a conservative hardliner on many issues.
Honorable Mention
- Stephen Miller, top advisor to President Donald Trump
- U.S. Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina
- Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
- President Ronald Reagan
- Attorney General and Alabama U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions
- Former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin
- Ken Cuccinelli, Attorney General of Virginia
- U.S. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky
- U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas
- U.S. Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa
- Former U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 6th District, Michele Bachmann
- U.S. Representative for Iowa's 4th District, Steve King
- U.S. Representative for Ohio's 4th District, Jim Jordan
- Heritage President and former Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina
- Talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh
- Activist Alan Keyes
- Columnist Ann Coulter
- Columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin
- Commentator and TV anchor Sean Hannity
- Commentator and TV anchor Tucker Carlson
- U.S. Representative for Georgia's 9th District, Doug Collins
- U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee
- Activist and executive Steve Bannon
- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
- Howard Phillips
- Author William F. Buckley
America First Agenda Movement Conservatives
Trump Administration
- Donald Trump
- Michael Flynn
- Steve Bannon
- Sebastian Gorka
- Mark Meadows (Resigned from the House to join the Trump Administration)
- Ben Carson
Senate
- Marsha Blackburn
- Ted Cruz
- Josh Hawley
- Cindy Hyde-Smith
- John Neely Kennedy
- Cynthia Lummis
- Roger Marshall
- Rand Paul
- Tommy Tuberville
Former Representatives
House of Representatives
- Barry Moore
- Mo Brooks - Will run for Senator of Alabama
- Andy Biggs
- Paul Gosar
- Debbie Lesko
- Tom McClintock
- Lauren Boebert
- Matt Gaetz
- Kat Cammack
- Greg Steube
- Byron Donalds
- Andrew Clyde
- Jody Hice - Retiring to unseat RINO Brad Raffensberger as Georgia Secretary of State
- Marjorie Taylor Greene
- Mary Miller
- Jim Banks
- Thomas Massie
- James Comer
- Andy Harris
- Matt Rosendale
- Yvette Herrell
- Dan Bishop
- Ted Budd - Will run for Senator of North Carolina
- Jim Jordan
- Warren Davidson
- Scott Perry
- Jeff Duncan
- Diana Harshbarger
- John Rose
- Mark E. Green
- Louie Gohmert
- Lance Gooden
- Ronny Jackson
- Randy Weber
- Chip Roy
- Bob Good
- Alex Mooney
Others
- Ron DeSantis - Incumbent Governor of Florida
- Eric Greitens - Former Missouri Governor running to replace Retiring RINO Roy Blunt
- Tucker Carlson
- Kelly Tshibaka - Challenging RINO Senator Lisa Murkowski
- J.D. Vance - Likely Republican to replace outgoing RINO incumbent Rob Portman, Vance is a story of success. He lived with his drug abusing and physically abusive parents. Then he credits his grandparents for rescuing him and turning his life around. Vance then joined the Marine Corps then he got into Yale Law School and then he pinned his famous book, Hillbilly Elegy.
- Sean Parnell (Pennsylvania Politician) - Running for nomination to replace retiring RINO incumbent Pat Toomey
- Kelli Ward
- Joe Kent - Primary Challenger to RINO Jaime Herrera Beutler
- Martin Hyde - Challenger to RINO Vern Buchanan
- Chuck Gray - member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, running against Liz Cheney
See also
References
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