While I applaud your efforts and the direction you want to head (and bear in mind I don’t disagree with you), here’s the problem that we have to face before ANY steps can be taken to right the course. And for those who say I’m full of feces, I direct them to the past 4 years of FR postings. (my own post history is a good start for research)
Many, if not most of the people claiming to be conservative and espousing of conservatives are at best, moderates.
We cannot move in a positive direction when one group (of ‘conservatives’) backs politicians like Rubio who want amnesty/DREAM acts, Another is ready to accept a moderate stance on homosexuals (as in allowing their sexual desires to form legislative policy). another group is ready to throw conservative pols with 90%+ records to the dogs over ONE stupid statement, Another group wants concessions to the Abortion lobby in order to secure winning votes for the GOP, ANOTHER group compares Romney to Reagan and condemns any who would put principle over party and yet ANOTHER that thinks economic concerns and ‘feasibility’ trump the need for a border fence rather than a ‘smart fence.
In my post history alone, you will see countless battles fought over the above issues with freepers who swear up and down that they are rock ribbed conservatives and ‘how dare I question their conservatism’ indignation.
How? I think it’s self-evident ‘how’.
Now if these are the abject idiots we have as an army to go to war with, I put to you that we should instead box up the wife and kids and head for the hills to avoid the slaughter.
I spent years fighting the landuse wars against the BLM and Sierra. We lost that war exactly because of the same enemies within. People who wore their politics on their sleeves and rolled them up when it interfered with their personal little problems.
So, In light of the fact that every single point I made above is easily and multiply proven (for none of these things are isolated incidents, rather current standard behavior for ‘conservatives’), we have exactly one logical and rational choice to move ahead in a positive and useful direction.
Purge the ranks, take the hit and stop wasting time, money and resource fighting the fairweather flock.
But a mere handful of us are willing to do it. The moderates run wild, trash actual conservatives (Palin being the most obvious example) and no one with any voice in the movement does s..t to stop it.
We need fewer Coulters/insert moderate freeper or pundit here, and more honest voices. And until the above happens, I honestly think everything else is a waste of my and everyone else’ time.
And again, before the moderates out there return to calling me names and bitching, they need to disprove a single point I made. Which, to date, not one has. Lots of bitching, ducking and ignoring, but no disproving.
Unfortunately, that is today’s reality.
Blame it on Reagan. These people are genetically descended from long lines of old-time Democrats ... the more patriotic kind ... not the Leftist kind. THEY are the ones who have created today's free-spending Republicans. These are the folks who wouldn't dream of marching in a Gay Rights Parade, but don't you dare touch MY Medicare. "Hey, as long as you're spending, where's my cut?"
The Country-Club RINO's play'em like a drum. At the same time, they are still susceptible to Democrat agitprop, (after all, Dad was) and since they are not real Republicans, if a "Republican" like Romney makes'em itchy, they have no problem staying home on Election Day, as RINO McLame and The Mormon Milquetoast found to their chagrin.
They do need their ass kicked to the right. OTOH, the Two-Party System being what it is, they are what we have to work with. In the more rational 4 or 5-party systems, they would actually be "Center-Left," "Christian Democrats," or some such foreign folderol.