Jim, if the candidate you are supporting in the primaries, still a year away, wins they will have my support. I'm for Mitt Romney or Rudy Giuliani at this point. As far as I can see no other candidates officially in the race have the capability of leading this nation. They have great ideas like Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter do, but not have the necessary leadership experience, IMHO of course.
Guess you need to ask yourself where your chosen leader wants to lead you.
Me too.
Don't forget that "Mr. Conservative", Barry Goldwater, changed his conservative stripes on social issues. And all of us would have (should have) have wished Goldwater well in 1964: Vietnam Vets certainly would have.
That's right, the Presidency is not an entry level executive position.
In a GOP primary I am likely to vote for the proven executive leader, even if he is soft on social issues. A through and through conservative, lifelong senator or congressman without executive experience is likely not qualified for the Presidency. After years or decades of hiding among the crowd, changing votes, waffling, dissembling, posturing for the hometown, etc, such a man cannot be expected to suddenly change his approach to his work. For this reason alone, the Hildebeast is unqualified.
Just as I would not quietly accept inexperience in the CEO of a company that I held a lot of stock in, I would only reluctantly accept a newbie Republican executive as President. JMHO.