This is 100% true….but lets consider FR: here there seems to be a tremendous understanding that if you're not so con, you're not a true con….and that is correct.
Where there seems to be a blind spot on FR - is that there are a lot of so cons who also are not true cons. There are a lot of so con "onlies" who are very willing to throw away limited government and economic conservatism…and when they get this pointed out, they put on their pharisee robes and babble about mammon and so forth…..totally missing the concept of property and liberty, which is what we call the sanctity of life OUTSIDE the womb….and like life INSIDE the womb, it too is sacrosanct.
That is the problem. There is a difference between believing in morality and virtue and wanting the government to get involved in mandating what it is and how we must do it.
I am in full agreement with you, sir. I do think it takes both sides to make the “Compleat Conservative”, if you will.