Yes, but the GOP establishment has just about purged the party of real conservatives, who are badly outnumbered. The country is just too liberal to consider conservatism: that's what Nixon thought as early as 1960.
Theodore R. wrote:
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Yes, but the GOP establishment has just about purged the party of real conservatives, who are badly outnumbered. The country is just too liberal to consider conservatism: that’s what Nixon thought as early as 1960.
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See, I don’t think that it’s the country that’s too liberal... it’s Washington D.C. that’s way too far to the left. I believe this is a conservative leaning country as evidenced by Ronald Reagan winning two presidential elections in major landslides. Unfortunately, the Republican Party is stuck in their little inside-the-beltway bubble surrounded by leftists and left-wing media which continually leads them to falsely conclude that the party must moderate its positions on everything in order to win elections. And thus they keep nominating moderate presidential candidates.
But otherwise you’re right about our conservative elected officials being badly outnumbered. 2010 was a good start, but we have to keep putting more conservatives in Washington and continue holding the ones who are already there accountable.