Sentence examples for respectable conservative from inspiring English sources

A respectable conservative.

What was funny and ultimately telling was the minor uproar the petition set off in respectable conservative circles.

The respectable conservative journals of opinion sprinkle the phrase around their Web sites but go light on it in their print editions.

QUESTION FROM JOHN KOKORIS: Somewhat related to the last paragraph of your excellent article: There's a "West Wing" episode in which President Bartlett nominates a staunch liberal to the Supreme Court; to get her through Congress, he talks an old conservative justice into retiring by promising to nominate a staunch and respectable conservative replacement.

Lemann does write astutely about the white supremacists and their coordinated multi-track political strategy, whereby respectable conservative Democrats like Lamar kept to the high road (and attacked the Republicans as profligate tax-and-spenders) while leaving the dirty work to the White Line.

National Review has played the role of gatekeeper on the right over the years, attempting to drive fringe voices, like the John Birch Society, from what the magazine's editors have deemed to be respectable conservative opinion.

By Adam Gopnik March 3, 2016 When Jean-Marie Le Pen reached the final round of the French Presidential election, in 2002, against the right-centrist Jacques Chirac, Socialists joined respectable conservatives in a "republican front" to insure Le Pen's defeat.

Although Daniel Hannan and other supposedly respectable Conservatives pretend they did not win by palming the race card from the bottom of the deck, it is a matter of record that Vote Leave began by promising a "positive" and "internationalist" vision and finished by aping Ukip and warning that 76 million Turks were about to land at Dover.

When Le Pen disastrously made the final round of the French Presidential election, in 2002, in a one-man race against the right-center candidate Jacques Chirac, a "republican front" was formed incorporating respectable conservatives and French Socialists, whose candidate, Lionel Jospin, had disappointed in the first round.

Yet now those same respectable conservatives ― Erickson, Shapiro, Rothman and others ― are running to defend Kevin Williamson.

One which has largely relied on the legacy of solid but respectable conservatives such as the likes of Senator John McCain, Former Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and which now has to contend with a Trumpism that has dragged much of the Republican mainstream to the extreme right.