RIGHT ON! That's the way ALL conservatives should be. If it was, the democrat party would lose about 20% of it's voting strength right off the bat. I love the Republican party, but the day it changes or stops supporting it's plank, which is based almost entirely on Christian principles, is the day the GOP loses my vote. THAT is the best way to ensure the Republican party will never be taken over by radical fanatics like the democrat party has been. If freakish radicals can't ever get elected because the dedicated conviction led base refuses to elect someone like that who doesn't support those same conservative principles, that will always stop the conservative movement in the GOP from being hijacked. Too bad the democrats don't do that, it would help add to the conservative GOP base. :)
I'll take it futher. Political parties should not be! Every candidate should have to run as a party of one to be judged on his individual merits and records, not on his party affiliation.