Well, then, should have Reagan told all the GOP moderates and democrats who voted for him (and made it possible for him to win) to get lost?
Conservatives are only 40 percent of the electorate. When that number reaches 50.1 percent, we can talk about not needing moderates to win the White House.
And BTW, we are facing record deficits precisely because the GOP did not win in 2008. So winning does matter in the end. The trick is to win with a conservative reaching out to moderates, instead of attempting to win with a RINO reaching out to conservatives.
The majority of the approximately $5 Trillion in on-balance-sheet Federal debt created under the Bush administration was created during the 2000 to 2007 time period when Congress was controlled by Republicans.
Merely attempting to shift the blame to the Democrats is not going to work; both parties are at fault for the present situation, to various degrees. That the Democrats are worse than the Republicans does not excuse the conduct of the Republicans while they were in power.
“Well, then, should have Reagan told all the GOP moderates and democrats who voted for him (and made it possible for him to win) to get lost?”
Are you KIDDING?? Reagan stood fast to his consevative principles, and THEY came to HIM, not the other way around.!
I am all for reaching out to fellow Americans who may not necessarily share our political ideology, so long as we are the ones convincing them to join us, rather than adapting our agenda to suit them, particularly if such adaptation requires flagrantly violating our core beliefs or straight up buying their votes through the establishment--excuse me, I meant, "reform"--of more Federal programs.