“sometimes viewpoints change in society, we need to pick key battles where we can win and take it from there.”
Some issues are core, and cannot be conceded. These are core, conservative issues, that cannot and should not be conceded. By conceding them, we’ve essentially awarded leftists the victory here.
“We need to find the issues that we can win on and work on the others form there.”
We have the right issue already. If you believe these are loser issues, then you are in the wrong party. If you want to win on social liberalism - the democrat party seems to be doing just fine.
“We need to return to a more Goldwater style conservatism where government is out of our lives as much as possible.”
My experience is that liberatarians are unreliable on both social and fiscal issues - they will willingly concede fiscal conservativism in order to preserve social liberal causes like publicly funded abortion, etc.
Took your test, we seem to agree on 83% of the issues. As the old saying goes, if someone agrees with you 80% of the time, he is your friend and not too far apart in what you want. You’ll never have 100% agreement and there are times compromise is needed. It does not say you need to bend until you break but the need is there although I’d never compromise with the Democrats we have now.