[Ditter]

If Whistling could pick the next conservative/Reagan like presidential candidate, who would that person be?

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

There is no Reagan in this field, we both know that.

The question is, "why?". Why has the greatest President of the 20th century's legacy been squandered? Why has principled conservatism -- the fairest, most logical and successful political philosophy ever known -- been abandoned in favor of a policy of capitulation to a failed and uncompromising political doctrine with Marxist/Leninist roots?

The answer's pretty simple: Republicans care more about personal power than what's best for the country (conservatism). And voters care so much about winning, they're willing to sell off their principles at the drop of a hat.

I don't know where the next Reagan will come from, or if he'll come at all. But if you're asking me what I'd do right now to advance the cause of conservatism in my party, I would have shown John Boehner the door and made Mike Pence the Minority Leader. And I would have done everything I could to persuade Newt Gingrich to take over the RNC (conservatism has no better spokesman today, but his personal baggage makes his prospects on the national level tenuous at best).

Sadly, neither happened. And the policy of capitulation continues...