Nowhere did I say or suggest that I would only vote for someone who holds identical views to mine. There are far too many issues (and even future ones yet to be known) to insist on complete conformity. You’re talking about something that is, in actuality, an impossibility.
So I think you’re missing my point altogether. We all have passionate views about one particular issue or another (abortion, gun rights, crime, the economy, immigration, energy, etc.). What is the common denominator on practically every issue? Too much government involvement. I would argue that we are getting very close to socialism since there is almost nothing that government does not control, regulate, tax or otherwise influence. I don’t want to get one inch closer to socialism.
I’m willing to vote for people whose views vary from mine (to a degree – we all have limits to how much we’re willing to bend) but the one view that is central to all others is the underlying need to shrink government which, if you think deeply about it, has become a tool of the Left. They have literally weaponized every agency within it. It is the very source of their power. It is also something the Founders warned us about. I trust their wisdom.
Allowing government to continue to expand only serves to strengthen the Left and therefore makes our problems harder to solve. Weak candidates who will continue expanding government won’t have the resolve to bring us back in line with the Founders’ vision for this country. They tried to warn us, but we didn't listen.
Agree!
“A Republic, if you can keep it.”