Good for you. Then you, and libertarians like you, are definitely not part of the problem I was talking about. But there are still a lot of freepers who don’t seem to understand that conservatism has to be a three-legged stool.
To digress for a minute, I’m a Catholic, but I spent a good part of my career working with Evangelicals toward those goals we had in common. We agreed to disagree on points of doctrine, or which was the true Church, but to fight together on what we could agree on as conservative Christians.
The same applies to libertarians and Evangelicals, for instance. Very hard to elect a conservative without votes from both groups. There are millions of Evangelical votes, but they’ll stay home unless they are satisfied on certain basic points. That means we need to have libertarians willing to oppose abortion and gay marriage, and Evangelicals willing to oppose big government.
Too many people fail to understand the need to work together and agree on some points that are basic to each side in order to avoid a far worse result.
Whenever we get a good Conservative Candidate, we needn’t worry about particular constituant groups. Voters automatically gravitate to goodness and commonsense....Reagan, ‘94, ‘10, and Sarah’s Governor Race in Alaska all illustrate it. Worrying about uniting Evangelical, Libertarians & such, when we have a Good Conservative, is superfluous BS, and the language of rinos.
Too many people fail to understand the need to work together and agree on some points that are basic to each side in order to avoid a far worse result.
Your whole post is absolutely correct and eloquent but that statement right there is one we should all embrace.
Sadly the GOP-E and their people never seem to want to moderate with US.
We swallow our pride and vote for the candidates they run, yet I know for a fact that many of the GOP people refuse to vote for ANY Tea Party Candidate.
Perhaps those moderates need to moderate somewhere else.
I will continue to work on my Libertarian Brothers and Sisters to accept Sarah (Many do and yet still more are simply unaware of how on the same side she/we all are)