The GOP puts too many things out of reach by choice.”
Spot on. IMO the vast majority of the GOP likes things just like they are and would rather lose - as long as their cushy jobs are not in jeopardy.
I think conservatives need to learn to make the right compromises too though.
1 instance that comes to mind is Herman Cain’s idea of making Detroit an economic recovery zone with the elimination of things like sales taxes for a period of time. A lot of FReepers threw a fit because they wouldn’t be getting the same thing and in the process, they miss the point.
The point was in proving that conservative low tax ideas could get the city back on its feet which would be good for Michigan and the country. A republican doing such things would put a lot of people to work and pull a lot of people off the democrat plantation.