A conservative that knows how to get elected and accomplish all that can be accomplished under the circumstances. Ronald Reagan comes to mind.
Too many of the Kamikaze Conservatives on this forum only know how to rant and rave, have their sacred litmus tests, and don't understand that compromise is the winning art of politics. They would rather be "right" and inflexible and say home rather than vote for a less than perfect Republican. They are the sort that helped elect Obama.
Barry Goldwater certainly sounded good, but what did he accomplish. Name just one thing.
Goldwater wasn’t a conservative.
So tell us what the RINOs have achieved of late, except push the country further left?
About as much as Paul Ryan has accomplished. Zip nada. The lesser of evils begats more evil. No sale.
In other words, they help pass leftist legislation
In America we practice representative government. Dynasties and ruling class elites don’t do that. I believe the approval rating of Congress is still in the single digits.
Too many of the Kamikaze Conservatives on this forum only know how to rant and rave, have their sacred litmus tests, and don’t understand that compromise is the winning art of politics. They would rather be “right” and inflexible and say home rather than vote for a less than perfect Republican.
They are the sort that helped elect Obama.
BINGO!
> “Barry Goldwater certainly sounded good, but what did he accomplish. Name just one thing.”
He set the stage for a fellow conservative named Ronald Wilson Reagan.
Did Reagan compromise with the Air Traffic Controllers union or Soviet Union? Reagan did not like RINOs and would frequently rail against GOP mainstream.
Don’t use Reagan to defend Coburn and RINOs.