“I miss the old FR when the site was dominated by conscientious conservatives.”
You mean all those folks who didn’t really care if anything got done in government, so long as they could be bull$hitted into thinking that the people they were voting for were claiming to be “conscientious conservatives?” Those people? Frankly, FR is a better place with people who have the abiltiy to think and reason.
I used to teach government for about 10 years and I’m going to say things that will make you “compound” people upset. 1st of all you have to get elected to bring about change. 2nd you have to compromise with the legislative branch to get a bill passed. If you have to balamce the ticket like Reagan did with Bush, do it! We all agree that this country is in the worst mess of its existence. The election of Hillary would almost certainly doom us. We do not have a majority at present. We must convince independents and Reagan democratsw that we want to rebuild the country. Picking a perceived “radical” VP would not help Trump to win.