[SoConPubbie]

Political leanings never make it out of the box if you cannot get elected.

True, but if you really are a conservative, which I have my doubts right about now, you'll never get a conservative elected unless you are willing to fight for that conservative and not put out false requirements that previous executive experience or relying on what's popular instead of adherence to conservative policy positions, fidelity to conservatism, and the ability to communicate those policy positions to the voters.

You sound like a GOP-E political consultant.

[BlackAdderess]

Not a GOPe political consultant, but I have seen what happens when libertarians come goose-stepping in proclaiming themselves to be the only “true Conservatives”. They drive off all the volunteers with their b.s. and lose elections owing to the fact that few want to have their untested hippy tripe inflicted on the country.

Conservative means that you stick with the tried and the true best practices for solving problems. It isn’t exciting and new and there is no unified theory. Instead there is carefully culled pragmatism.