I agree with you. The next republican president needs to be another great communicator like Reagan was. People are to ignorant to realize the liberties that are being stolen from them by the left. Someone who can reach out the LIVs and bring them back to a little common sense.
Another great thing about Reagan was his ability to connect the difficult experiences people were going through with government over-reach.
A big problem with the conservative movement today is that we have plenty of conservatives that know the slogans, but don't know the origin of the slogans -- why the principles work.
This is especially a problem when reaching out to the young. To them, freedom and liberty are empty words without any connection to everyday life.
I see this all the time on The Five when there are discussions about economics. They go on as if the government has nothing to do with the difficulties people have finding jobs. That if the unemployed just "buck up" or "knuckle down" they can succeed like everyone else.
Well if that's true then why the hell do we bother going after Democrats' economic policies? If we're all living in some hunky-dory free market capitalist utopia, then why change anything? Or worse, if we tell people that we have a free market and we're a capitalistic economy and yet people are in rotten shape economically, then their answer is to reject capitalism!
Of course we don't have a free market. At this point we genuinely have a democratic socialist system. There's no aspect of the economy where the Federal Government doesn't have the final say. They have control -- and they're farking it up! The answer isn't to give them even more power.
And it's not just the Federal Government. We have to talk about State and Local Government, too. They create plenty of economic inflexibility.