You make a good, if sarcastic, point. Ronald Reagan said "The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally, not a 20 percent traitor."
Many conservatives no longer see it that way. Either you are 100% pure, or you are the enemy. That's why I don't think there will be any more GOP presidents.
That’s traitor talk! /sarc
In all seriousness, when Margaret Thatcher died I saw a conservative blog calling her a liberal because of this or that position. Insane.
Yep. Exactly.
“Either you are 100% pure, or you are the enemy. That’s why I don’t think there will be any more GOP presidents.”
That’s true. Contrast with the democrats, who can get coal producing states to vote for 0bama. They can get blacks to vote for him, even though he wants to open the floodgates to cheap immigrant labor that will keep them forever unemployed. They can get industrial union members and environmental kooks who hate all things industrial to vote for 0bama.
As you say, conservatives’ constant quest for “ideological purity” will keep the GOP out of the White House.
Not to say we should just accept anyone as a candidate (like the last two). But you can’t require your candidate to be as perfect as Jesus and spit on anyone who isn’t and expect to ever hold office.
Depends on what that 20% disagreement is.
Banning gun ownership?
Forcing everyone under single payer state run healthcare?
Global warming carbon credit schemes?
Amnesty for 20+million “dual citizen” Mexicans?
Which issue are you willing to surrender (things will never be the same after stepping through each of those one way doors)?
And which of those four issues (which liberals are all trying to advance) do you think would be enough for them to give up on pursuing the other three?
I’d say that Obama is 80% an ally of Hitler if you rule out the death camps and ghettos.
bttt
jeb is an 80% traitor, like mitt.