Pick your #1 issue. There's a flavor of conservative who votes on that issue only.
I have no problem with fiscal conservatives. I think I'd indentify myself as that flavor if I had to choose.
You have to be broader than that to win a general election. When one segment demands that their candidate be elected or they won't support any conservative candidate, then we're in trouble.
But that doesn't mean we submit to blackmail.
The conservative movement is too broad for a threat on FR to mean anything, anyway.
Well look, I agree with you.. what you wrote. But the probem is that mainstram GOP is not the slightest bit conservative anymore. We are not talking about abandoning the GOP just for guns, or just for abortion, or just for whatever. We are talking about the basic philosophy that government is the problem, not the solution. The GOP just doesn't believe that anymore.