Agreed.
We need to vet them here on FR because we know for sure the "news" media want to force a weak, easily beatable candidate. And it's a double-shot for them if they can push a candidate true conservatives will stay home rather than vote for.
Still, what I've seen here and other places by too many people is an unwillingness to bend a little; no one is perfect, no one is going to be exactly like me. There is more than one way to skin a cat and politicians have to say some things to get elected that they never mean to carry out (see obammy's campaigns).
There’s a difference between being flexible and bending over forwards.
Here’s the problem. One faction of FR refuses to accept the 80% traditional standard and reviles people calling for adherents ‘purists’ blames them to this day for Obama, and keeps helping the right wing as a whole move left.
80% means one in 5 votes is a liberal vote. And yet, we ‘purists’ have bent a full 20%.
Now I defy a single person screaming ‘Purist” (not you) to show the class where Mitt or most of the usual suspects like Perry hit that 80% marks.
But it is not just sheer votes. Mitch and the like regularly spend months pushing hard for liberal policies and fighting the Ted Cruz types. Then, when the vote is solidly locked in for the lib win, they come out and vote against it and their record ‘proves’ their conservative creds.
Nope.
There are core issues. There is an official platform. If people ignore those issues and that platform, they and their supporters are in fact liberal democrats. Because thats what siding with liberal democrats against the cor issues and party platform shows they are.