What is the Republican Party’s guiding principle? Americans need to know what it is before we can be expected to vote Republican

Here is a discussion of principle, understanding, and insights into the newest speaker of the House. He is quoted as saying:

Our people are losing their faith in government. ... I think we have to be mindful of that. We’re going to fight vigorously over our core principles because they’re at odds a lot of times now in this modern era. We have to sacrifice sometimes our preferences because that’s what’s necessary in a legislative body.

Rather than fighting vigorously for his core principles as a member of the government, the ruling elite, he should adhere vigorously to his core principles, which means he lives according to his principles but does not force others to live to his ideals. The difference is stark, as I hope to prove.

We have yet to see the core principles of the current Republican party. We would be so much better off if the Republicans told everyone what they were for and provided solutions, rather than what they are against. Some of us wonder if they even know.

In what alternate universe does anyone have faith in any government? At best, government sets a pathway for transaction and interaction, enforces written laws, protects the nation from foreign and domestic invaders, and itself adheres to the Constitution’s restrictions on government actions. That’s the best that government can do. It can stay out of the way.

When the speaker of the House talks about restoring the faith, he misses the point. He needs to restrict the government to a limited set of actions. If he can do that, then we can have faith in him. But to assume that anyone should have faith in a formless entity with unimagined power, any government, is absurd.

Here's the problem in a nutshell:

Any political candidate who publicly espouses the concept of the sanctity of the individual over the government is likely to lose his next election at least 90% of the time.

Americans simply can't afford the standard of living they've come to see as their God-given right. That's how we end up in a nation that is $34 trillion in debt, with no end in sight.

It's also why we have an open-borders immigration policy here. Divide the national debt by the number of working Americans, and you'll find that the average working couple basically has about a $375,000 "mortgage" -- and no home to go with it. We are flooding this country with immigrants who are desperate enough, or dumb enough, to think this is a good deal.

“Reps have done NOTHING to make me want to vote for them, NOTHING.”

Reps? Oh, it took me a second to see that’s code for RINOs, GOPe, uniparty, deep state, elites, establishment, turncoats, assistant democrats, traitors, back-stabbing, lying liars, swamp dwellers, debt junkies, crooks, thieves, scumbags, Marxists, republicrats, globalists, democrat lite, the list goes on...

You have the GOP.
Then you have “conservatives”
Then you have the “Right”.
Then you have Patriots.

The GOP stands for its own perpetuation generally ahead of America.

Conservatives are generally bound by the tyranny of the status quo and constantly looking to hold on to the past.

The Right seems to know what its against - everything Leftist - but seems clueless about what its for or what its objective are.

True Patriots know or should know EXACTLY what we are for, what our objectives are, and what we are against. We are for constitutionally protected individual freedom, limited government and state sovereignty. Our objective is to reinstate the Constitution as written and originally understood and intended as the Supreme Law of the Land - The Rule of Law - and dismantle the $3+ trillion, 80%+ unconstitutional portion of the federal government. Our goal is a “new birth of freedom” in America and we will fight against every unconstitutional act, agency, or Court decision that is unconstitutional because we understand that the advance of unconstitutional government means more government coercion and less individual freedom.

The guiding principle of most Republican voters (not politicians) is "Do your job and leave the rest". Let me give you an example of what I mean, I used to work at a store, we had a small parking lot in the back that we shared with four other businesses. There was street parking in the front, about ten spaces which was about half our parking. The city decided to take out those parking spaces to put in a "bike lane". Now for at least six months out of the year NO ONE except a total moron rode a bike. Snow, ice and just plain cold made that a nonstarter. Even in the summer the number of people who rode bikes was limited and there was space for them to ride in the street if they wanted.

No one wanted the bike lane, not the businesses, not the residents no one. But the city council, who did not live in the area decided they did want a bike lane for the political points.

So we got a bike lane that was never used, we lost the front parking, and because the money was used for a "bike lane" it did not get spent on repairing the pot holes.

Now was it the "job" of the city council to put in a bike lane? Not really.

Was it the job of the city council to keep the road in good repair? Yes.

Now I admit this lacks the spiffy slogans but the government should do their job, which is where they fall down on the job, and stop trying to stick their noses in places where it is none of their business.

I just got a text survey from speaker Johnson, and this was my replies to a request for a message to Mike Johnson:

If the GOP keeps losing for fun and profit I am f*ing done with it. I can't believe that as a Conservative and patriot that I am hating the Republican’t Party more now than the Democrats, at least they get their voters what they want. The GOP will go the way of its predecessor Whig Party, the party that ignored its voters for too long.

P.S. Tell McConnell not to reboot the next time he has a seizure.

I would give out the URL of the survey, but it might dox me.

Need New Party. A party not to be a Third Party but a New Party to replace the Vichy GOP. It could be one of three existing parties that could be taken over and transformed.
1. Reform Party. Make Reform the Goal—term limits, Low Taxes, No foreign aid. Close all bases overseas—bring the boys home.
2. Conservative Party—Stop the money train to all nations. close the borders. Live the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Stop all corruption—hang murders, cop killers, traitors and drug sellers.
3. Peace Freedom. Make motto of Peace mean something. Drop all social programs, cut back all military. Sell off the navy. Who need a huge fleet? 120 ships should do the job.

To asks what the guiding principal of the GOP ought to be would be a far easier question, but even then, like the original question, there will likely be no one single answer.

Modern Conservatives in the GOP look most to a small Federal government, or high degree of federal fiscal restraint, or “right to life” issues, or Libertarian economics, or to strict textual Constitutionalism, or Federalism, or strong national defense, or several other issues, but rarely is someone in the GOP giving the same priority to all of those things, and often is willing to compromise one or more of those things for a priority of another one of those things.

Example: Many Conservatives will say they favor a small federal government, but then will support various federal “crime” laws, to not appear “soft on crime” when the matters covered by a law already are, or ought to be, covered by state laws, which are the appropriate place for all public safety matters. They will do the same on education matters, to “improve” education (which only strengthens the federal hand in education) which again rightly belongs with the states, not Washington D.C.

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