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Listen Jim, your passion is laudable and most of your point's are valid. If they could all be implemented, I for one would be very happy. However, we conservative often fall into the trap that the lib's lay for us - arguing for a less "big" government. In my view, absent point 11 of your list, none of the others will happen. The central problem is the HUGE bloated and all powerful federal government. Until a leader is willing to rise up and take on the real problem - an ever expansive central government and really cut it's reach back, nothing will happen. And before I'm falsely accused, I'm not a libertarian!

Conservatives have got to adopt a whole new approach to winning. We can't just be the less "big" government ideology. My gosh, can we really imagine a 3 TRILLION dollar budget being appropriated by the group up there on the "Hill". The power of the Department of Justice, the reach of the IRS, the encumbrance of the Department of Education. How about HUD, HHS spending BILLIONS on programs that promote irresponsible behavior. Never mind Medicare and Medicaid.

Conservatives have got to stop seeing winning as holding the current government structure. Cut, cut and more cut. Return the governance to the people in the individual states where the legislators are your neighbors. I'm not for abolishing the federal government, but an for cutting it WAY back to 10% of our annual GDP from the current 30% or so.

Where's the candidate for this? Big Hunter fan, but not even sure he's on-board for this. Yet, unless we do this, we're headed for a bifurcated country in a decade. The only power the libs have is....government power. They're ideas are bankrupt, so stealing from citizens through compulsory taxes is their only outlet. Right now they're winning.