! 1) Illegal immigration got way worse. We had a whole thread about this and it appears that none of the conservative posters have any coherent defense of TDS immigration policy. It's an abject failure.
2) Booming economy. Great jobs reports. Awesome sauce on the economy. But that's capitalism bought on the backs of taxpayers. The debt increased 34%. Did we get Newt Gingrich style crackdown on government spending? NO. Deficit spending of $7.8 trillion and counting. I was hoping he'd be better on this, but apparently paying for what you buy doesn't matter anymore. This more than doubled Obummer's deficit rates.
How in the wide world of reality do we have the best economy the world has ever seen and no ability to pay the bills? Makes no sense.
3) New long term entitlement spending on farms etc. Grossssssss. The smell of that carp will never go away. Are we trying to call that conservatism? It stinks.
WHere are the small government conservatives? They all disappear?