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The true reasons that we have not made more progress are intolerance and laziness. Lazy, because conservatives think that the conservative movement will take hold simply because we are correct about most issues. It will take hold only when we confront the enemy. The enemy is liberals and their institutions. Either we change them or provide alternatives, (conservative schools, conservative media, etc). Attacks and blaming the GOP for the problem is wasteful and counterproductive. Which leads to the second reason, intolerance. We will not have influence or victory without support of moderates. A moderate is someone who is not as passionate as you, but someone than agrees with you more than your enemy, and will support your cause, but not to the same degree. Anyone who thinks that conservatives will ever monopolize the American political process is unrealistic. We have to have moderate support to win elections; not winning elections means no influence, and since we are doing this for results, to deliberately do things that cost us elections is almost insane. I'm as conservative as anyone on here, but I'm a lot more tolerant.

I realize this is not an official GOP site. But any plan that does not include the Republican Party is doomed, whether you accept that or not. Over the past 18 months I've been on this site, I have had my eyes opened as to the efforts to divide the conservative vote, to intentionally keep the GOP out of power, by "true" conservatives. I've also seen the most ridiculous arguments and positions by so-called conservatives, who are not conservatives at all, but rather flakes, who have no clue as to what it will take to knock the left out of power, to put a conservative/moderate gov't in it's place, and to keep it there. The Constitution Party is a nice idea, but since it will never come close to the GOP in electability, forget it. A vote for that party, even though it is counter productive, is the only one I would consider a true "conscience" vote of a conservative. Don't even mention the LP. That party is NO alternative for the true conservative; more like the logical progression from 60's hippie to the present day, (Drugs, pro-abortion, etc). Outside of their position on the 2nd Amendment, they have nothing in common whatsoever with the conservative movement.

I had always thought that "conservative" and "logical" were inseparable concepts; after many months on this site, it almost seems that the opposite is true.....