[Recovering_Democrat]

You're right....I'm one who came to the Republican party after spending the first 15+ years of my sociopolitical life as a Democrat.

I used to rail against Reagan and for the likes of Carter, Mondale, etc.

I am so glad I've changed. And I know I'm not alone.

There will never be a perfect President, but the conservative electable party is the Republican party, and I'll work to CHANGE it, to make it more conservative, but I won't abandon it.

Reagan didn't abandon it, and he took years--many years--from 1964 until 1980, to get it to be a true conservative party that the nation would support.

He didn't give up, and we shouldn't either.

[Know your rights]

the conservative electable party is the Republican party

It's electable ... but is it still conservative?

[Beagle8U]

"There will never be a perfect President, but the conservative electable party is the Republican party, and I'll work to CHANGE it, to make it more conservative, but I won't abandon it."

Wise words! That is the only way to make positive change in the right direction.

Letting RATS get back into power would be a change, but it sure as hell wouldn't be a change for the better.