Eric Bolling Fires Back at Bernie Goldberg: I’m a Proud Conservative and You ‘Can’t Do a Damn Thing About It’

Columnist and frequent O’Reilly Factor commentator Bernie Goldberg fired a shot across the bow at Fox News’ Eric Bolling today with a hard-hitting column attacking Bolling as a representative of the “true-blue conservatives” who reject any kind of compromise or moderation. Bolling fired back on The Five today, wondering exactly when being a “real” conservative was a bad thing.

Bolling read some selections from Goldberg’s blistering attack on him.

Ted Cruz is the rookie U.S. senator from Texas who if he worked at Fox News would be Eric Bolling. Like Bolling, Cruz is on a mission. He wants Republicans to stand up for their conservative principles.

Bolling continued, “Yeah, and?”

He railed against establishment figures like Goldberg for “putting a scarlet C on our lapels,” telling Goldberg directly that he and the “dying breed of old-school Republicans” don’t understand that this new wave of conservatism is the “voice of the future.”

Bolling said he’s proud to wear his conservatism as a badge of honor, and Goldberg and his “nearly-extinct herd of old-school politicians can’t do a damn thing about it.”

He concluded, “Have the establishment hit the lights on the way out.”

Watch the video below, via Fox News:

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