I’m perfectly willing to accept anyone that lines up 80% with core conservative principles. What is so uncompromising about that?
Please tell me as I really do not get why we HAVE to accept abortion, gay everything and gun control. Tell me why I have to turn my morality legally over to a group of politicians who demand I accept dead babies and BDSM as a basis of government.
What the ‘moderates’ demand is uncompromising, not me. What I want is sane.
Name some potentials and explain how he/she can win a primary, let alone a general election as things stand today.
The same for me, Norm. That's what I'm talking about. We can't change everything in the blink of an eye, on day one of a conservative Presidency. We don't like Zero using EO's to get what the Dems want.
As to abortion, homos and gun control, we have to work on eliminating government funding for Planned Parenthood (which is just a government-funded abortion clinic), shore up DOMA, and (like I posted in a gun control thread elsewhere) make our own proposals to actually releax the gun laws. Fight fire with fire. Every time the libs propose another gun law, propose a law eliminating some gun law. Even if it only gums up the works for the lib proposal, it'll show them that we mean business.
We are going to have to accept, for the time being, abortion, etc. and work the salami approach - slice-by-slice - until we whittle it down to practically nothing. Think of smoking. Instead of making laws eliminating it, we've made the cost fairly prohibitive and we've educated people, using peer pressure, to not do it. It's a free country, smoking is still legal, so people can do it in the privacy of their own home (like I do with my pipe).
One step at a time, man. Just don't give up, and stop trying the all-or-nothing approach. It's definitely not working.