Agreeed......current Republican front runners do not represent conservatives. Doesn't mean we throw up our hands and compromise. Notice that no other groups are being asked to sacrifice their principles----only Christians. I find that appalling. Thankfully there are Christians like you----and thankfully there are people like me. We can both contribute to the dialogue.....in different ways.
>>Doesn't mean we throw up our hands and compromise. Notice that no other groups are being asked to sacrifice their principles<<
I appreciate your post and absolutely agree with you. I find it particularly galling to be asked to give up before the first primary even starts. There have been lots of early front runners who never even got the nominated, much less elected - Mario Cuomo, John Dean, Gary Hart and Edmund Muskie - just to name a few.
Likewise, when a Republican is headed for the nomination because its "their turn" like Bob Dole or Gerald Ford - they can get the nomination but, without an energized base, a Republican has never won in my lifetime.
And when it's "somebody's turn" the door is open for an insurgency. It has happened on the left, it could happen for conservatives.
>>As late as January 26, 1976, Carter was the first choice of only 4% of Democratic voters, according to the Gallup Poll. Yet "by mid-March 1976 Carter was not only far ahead of the active contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination, he also led President Ford by a few percentage points,"<<