"true Conservatives" don't understand how important getting the Feds LARGEST spending program on the block"
Agreed. Hopefully, followed shortly by the even more expensive and rapidly growing Medicaid.
There is a cycle in politics where a party uses the big tent to gain moderate voters, then loses power when the ideologes and extremests push the agenda too far over to their side.
Beware of how much contempt you pile on the big tent types. They are the ones who know how to win elections. ------Just watch as Clinton hijacks our issues in the coming months.
LOL! I don't seem to recall "big tent types" being the ones that brought the GOP out of the wilderness.