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I tend to agree with your conclusion.

When the ideologues on the right are offset by the ideologues on the left, what remains is a very pragmatic electorate.

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In a perfect world we’d have a long line of Reagans in the White House.

In this world, you strive for (as did the original Ronald Wilson Reagan, btw) 80 or 90 percent of what you want.

Other than that, you must work from within the party framework to groom the next generation of small government candidates.