#1 Renewing the virtue of this country in both the noting public and the folks running for and who are already in office...
#2 Truely believing the conservative position and message by candidates and incumbents...
#3 Winning the cultural battles instead of trying to win the political ones, turning election day into a moot point before the polls open...
The democrats have succeeded, and will continue to succceed on their positions on these 3 points until the republican party gets its leaderships head out of their arses and focuses on them, instead of dismissing the conservative movement and its base...
To which I believe the republican party will not do, because the leadership is now firmly entrenched into the moderate swing of the political pendulum...And doing what it can to disniss and relegate the conservative base into oblivion...
#1 ...”voting public”...
Muh speel cheeker didn’t werk...
What makes you think this will ever happen? The Republican party has never, in my political life [I'm 30], really worked for one of its party planks, any of them.
Abortion: still legal, no challenges to the propriety of the USSC invalidating state laws for most of the states on what should clearly be protected by the 10th Amendment. (There are credible experts claiming the Partial Birth Abortion ban was/is merely a "feel-good" measure, lacking any real substance.)
Fiscal Responsibility: The upward trend of the deficit, the refusal to cut entire federal agencies.
Government Accountability: hell just look how they rolled over for Fast & Furious, which is a clear case of: state-sponsored-terrorism, treaty violation, and commuting [unauthorized] acts of war.
The Second Amendment: When was the last time you heard serious talk about repealing the GCA or the NFA? (Plus that they claim the Assault Weapon Ban's demise as a credit irks me: the AWB had a sunset clause... meaning they literally had to do nothing.)
Better Taxes: Have you ever heard serious talk about going to a flat-rate no exception/exemption/credit system? [By their actions (esp. WRT the "Bush tax cuts") you'd think they were perfectly fine having such a convoluted/incomprehensible system.]
So why should any young [or old] conservative believe that the Republican party is suited to represent them?