Just go with the traditional 80% rule. For all the charges of “Purist” people hit me with, I’m fine with that. Romney did not approach 50 much less 80.
The core issues cannot be violated of course, but odds are anyone 80% conservative is pretty solid on those.
Harry Truman had it right ~ when given a choice between a real Democrat or a fake Democrat the (Democrat) people will chose the real thing every time.
When the campaign professionals were telling us we had to go with Romney to beat the Democrats that was a demonstration of how utterly incapable they were of dealing with politics. Those guys should have been selling used cars or something. I also thought the days of home delivered milk would have been up their alley.
I'm fine with that too, we all have our ideals, and I didn't mean to imply you were a purist in any pejorative way, I was just writing in generalities.