So called conservative journalists-opinion writers have had a hard time defining who they are and what they really stand for. It all started with the Reagan era that allowed a true conservative view to be high jacked by a right wing extreme ideology that opposed every thing democratic and stood for nothing. And those journalists-opinion writers jumped on the band wagon.
It has been so bad that Tim Morris had to pen a recent column in the Times Picayune that listed a number of conservative principles to define his writings. It seems Morris and crowd has had a hard time defining themselves, especially for the past eight years and because of their savior Donald Trump. The view of those journalists-opinion writers have been wrong about ever thing republican and how the country would do so well on the republican watch, especially with trickle down economics that favored the wealthy. However the country has done better and so has the people on the democratic watch of Obama and Clinton. The conservative journalists-opinion writers have been silent on the 20 years of deficit spending by the Reagan, Bush 41 and Bush 43 administrations.
Those same writers have become so screwed up they were afraid to mention or write about the George W. Bush years it was so bad, but at the same time could not bring themselves to write any thing positive about the Obama administration even though the President kept America safe and brought the economy and jobs back, reduced deficit spending and brought Bin Laden to justice. And now they have adopted Donald Trump as their savior, an expert in the blame game.
Tim Morris can print as many conservative rules he wants to but that is not what the journalists-opinion writers go by today. It is all right wing extreme ideology unrelated to true conservatism. Over 8 years ago the leaders of the republican party in the U.S. House and Senate said they would not work with President Obama because they wanted to make him a one term President. In other words, the hell with the country and its people even though President Bush left a mess. And so called conservative journalists-opinion writers were silent.
The best journalists-opinion writers today are those who do not use ideology to express themselves on the issues but know how to break down what is taking place on the issues. And it was PolitiDose in a commentary in December of 2009 that explained why President Obama would turn the country around from the second great republican depression. And it happened and was predictable.
And one can bet when something negative happens on President Trump's watch, it will be the conservative journalists-opinion writers club that will blame some one else.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
