You will repulse nearly every effective political activist out there.
You are too full of insults and too full of yourself.
Yes, I would love to have a perfect candidate as you describe.
Such candidates do not exist in the real world. They just don’t.
And why are you involved in politics at all, since you do not care what other people think? The job of politicians is to negotiate policy. Nobody can work with you, so you do not belong.
I am sure you get that feeling often.
Yes, we need someone who can get us some occasional bacon on the fast train to communism. /s
The reason that conservatives lack perfect candidates is because there are so many stumbling blocks in the way (generally clogging the arteries of the sorry-assed remains of the Republican party). It is like walking out of the WTC on 9/12/01.
Wall Street, K Street and people like you posing as conservatives but spreading a "gospel" of defeatism and despair and minimalist ambitions (if they can be called ambitions at all). You want to hang out in the dark corners where Obozo might not notice you scurrying in the shadows for an overlooked scrap of cheese from the table of the spoiled trust funders, but above all obey your perceived need to be at the very most a pale facsimile of a sunshine soldier ready to defect at the first difficulty and terrified to be confused with those determined to actually fight for something worth having.
This Republic, like all human institutions, will someday fail, now or in 2016 or many years from now. It may fall to Obozo or to the Arkansas Medusa (there I go again alienating your potential "friends"). It may fall to sinister forces yet unimagined but fall it will. When it falls, will you be found crawling on your knees begging to surrender or will you be willing to risk being Nathan Hale? I guarantee you that the GOP will fall first. What will you tell your grandchildren in the Gulag you found more important than freedom as Ronaldus Maximus used to ask?
Each human being was destined for earthly death at the moment of conception. There are, however, many ways to die. The important thing is what happens next after death and therefore all the things that led up to that death.
Playing Let's Make a Deal by offering up without a whimper the lives (not yours to give) of 97% of the aborted to ban the deaths of the other 3% (who will likely be aborted a trimester earlier) is not a hill to die on. Each of the 3% is also a beloved individual child of God lovingly created by Him and abandoned in utero by the "adults" for generally selfish but homicidal reasons. Banning third trimester abortions may look good on your resume as you pat yourself on the back but the reality is that you will merely speed up the killing to an earlier trimester as is the custom in Europe whose moral spinelessness you apparently admire and seek to emulate.
When you "negotiate policy," you facilitate being governed by useless trash like Gerald Ford, Bush the Elder, Bill Graves, Nancy Landon Kassebaum, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Thad Cockroach, Lamar!!! Alexander, Bob Corker, Howard Baker, UpChuck Percy, Nancyboy Kirk, Charles Mathias, Lowell Weicker and the like and that's just among the "Republicans." When actual Republicans are set aside by moral cowards in favor of your cherished "moderates," the result is governance by the likes of Kathleen the Death Queen Sebelius, Obozo, anything named Clinton, UpChuck Schumer, Elizabeth Fauxcahontas Warren, Rosa DeLauro, Richard Blumenthal, Chris Murphy, etc.
Voting for a political disease like Mitt Romney over Obozo (and putting in your thumb and calling it a plum and saying "what a fine boy am I") at the cost of the tattered remains of the party that once rejected Saul Alinsky (and Nelson Rockefeller and William Scranton and George Romney and their ilk) to thereby seal the fate of the Republic is NOT conservatism.
Your existence here is one long fearful plea for Let's Make a Deal. The answer is no. Not a New Deal. Not a Fair Deal. Not any deal whatsoever. You are on the other side without the sense to know it or the honor to admit it.
OOOOOOOOH! That Elk is just SOOOOOO judgmental! Muffie and Skipper will never forgive him.
This has to be one of the stupidest statements I have read on FR in a long time. This is a Representative Democracy, a Republic. The politicians job is to administer the will of the people. "negotiating" and "compromise" is what got us candidates like Dole, McLame and Mittens in the first place.
You want to negotiate, you do it from a position of power, you do it from the barrel of a gun.
When Reagan met with the Soviet Union they knew in their hearts that he was a "cowboy" and willing to go the distance.
We have not had a serious Republican candidate that has been willing to do that in a long time.