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Do you need me to spell this out for you in crayon? You're the one that shifted the goalposts, not me. As soon as I called him out for a glaring instance of his conformism, you tell me that now I'm "cherry picking."
Like I said, I get it. You're a middle of the road Trump-loving conservative who thinks that Rush Limbaugh and other blowhards of his ilk "tell it like it is" or whatever. I'm sure you're grieving.
Grieving, naw, he had a long illness and I made peace with his death a long time ago, having never met the man, I was like "that sucks" and I moved on. As a Christian, I am concerned about my immortal soul so death, to me, is part of my everyday life.
Again, I don't think you understand logical fallacies. I'm saying swans are generally white, then you find a rare breed of black swans, and think that makes all swans black. Failure in logic. Than you accuse me of shifting goalposts, when I never set any goalposts in the first place. That is truly a failure in understanding on your part, and frankly, shitty rhetoric.
Furthermore, picking out a few examples that you SAY is conformist, as if the negates 4 decades of conservativism is also a failure from your end, at the very least, of defining your terms.
Support for traditional values is conservatism, which is what he advocated for. Thus, by nature, a conservative starts out from the position of, you know, keeping things the way they are (generally speaking). You can call that conformist, but it's coming from a totally different perspective. It's Chesteron's Fence.
A failure of understanding on your part doesn't make me wrong or you some arbiter of truth. It actually makes you look pretty lame.
This is all fine and dandy, but you quite literally said "the closest thing he ever came to being a conformist is not for being for 3rd parties in the pre-Trump era." I definitively proved you wrong, which you then attempted to explain away by saying "everyone supported the Iraq War."
Uh, you sure about that? I seem to recall people with consciences not supporting the Iraq War, but I understand that hypocrisy is a foundational element of both conservatism and the particular brand of American Christianity that I assume you follow.
How many times do I have to keep dunking on you? For starters, saying "closest he's come" is not conceding the point. You have the reading comprehension of a grade schooler
Secondly, lots of people not supporting the Iraq war was, in many ways, as mainstream as supporting it. Do you remember how the French, pretty much from President Chirac on down didn't?
So, now you are moving the goalposts by redefining conservatism as hypocrisy. You have the logic capacity of a drunken sorority girl.