1) Purist conservatives stand in moral judgment of realist conservatives
2) Purist conservatives withhold their vote or threaten to do so if a realist or center-right candidate is nominated
3) Purist conservatives deny reality and refuse to team with realists who are willing to make incremental progress rather than lose entirely
3) Purist conservatives engage in monkey-screeching disdain and mocking of any candidate or their supporters who attempt to innovate, break the mold, come from a different angle towards the same ultimate goal, or speak a different lingo than themselves
4) Purist conservative’s underlying political impulse is theocratic fascism; yet they accuse other political factions of fascism
5) Purist conservatives are every bit as humorless and narcissistic as purist progressives
6) Purist conservatives, if they can’t win because their sour judgmental elitism has turned the majority off, don’t want anyone else to win, either. Then they blame the realists for the punishments dished out by the progressives that the Purists helped elect, even though the realists actually want to win, but can’t get the Purists to accept objective reality long enough to soil themselves by voting for an imperfect human being with realistic conservative goals.
Wow! I don’t think you missed anything. Bravo!
Your whole post was based on a figment of your imagination -- the dreaded "purist."
Here's the deal. I vote for what I want to win. If the candidate advocates for a bunch of stuff I want to lose, like ethanol, government-run health care, violence-provoking mass deportations (yes, I want those things to lose), then obviously, my vote will go to a different candidate because I vote for what I want to win.
My tagline is a lived and learned truth. I am the reason the GOP is the messed up loser it is today -- I voted for it because I hadn't faced the truth of my tagline. I'm facing it now. You need to face the fact that "purists" are figments of your anger.