If conservatives are so naïve as to believe that we have to wait until we get a perfect conservative to change America, then how did we end up winning on guns and abortion?
Change real change, happens from the ground up. We have to capture the thoughtspace and to do that we’ll need to end government school education. Right now the big fight to to keep the FCC and the FEC out of the Internet.
Ron Johnson or any other Senator is going to moderate once they get elected. Cruz has moderated quite a bit already. It’s the nature and intent of Republics to moderate and avoid the vagaries of revolution and swift change. Liberals have forced swift change on us, but they’re losing.
So in Wisconsin who are you going to get to beat Ron Johnson and be this ideal candidate?
Better to work to defeat Feingold, a person who did real damage to our republic with his election reforms aka incumbent reelection laws. The fight is generational and always will be. We need to make strategic changes and dominate the thoughtspace to win. That’s already happening.
Conservatism is conservatism. It is an ideology based on moral truths and the rule of law, the US Constitution and the bill of rights, individual freedom and pride in our culture and heritage. It does not change or moderate. If you are moderate, or support those who are susceptible of moderation, I suggest you would be happier reading David Brooks and George Will, not giving us excuses for Republicans who leave town with principles and then give in to Power's siren song. Jesse Helms never did that. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee haven't done that. Jeff Sessions hasn't done that. Ron Johnson has. He is weak-minded, like those guys on whom Jedi mind tricks work.