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BINGO!

This has been my complaint of ‘conservatives’ so many years.

Any person that calls them selves a ‘conservative’ does not understand what a conservative is.

The people that lead the conservative movement are WAY WAY WAY too IDEOLOGICAL, the exact 180 degrees opposite of what conservatism is.

Ted Cruz is an IDEOLOGUE. He is not a conservative. He in fact is an ideologue and has more in common with Bernie ‘socialist’ Sanders. BOTH are ideologues at each end.

I wish there were more people in the GOP and the libertarian/conservative side that understand what conservatism really is, and all its different colors.

But ideologues have no part in the conservative movement, and I’ve been so disgusted over the years.

An example was when Palin was announced as McCain’s VP and Rush Limbaugh declared “Babies, Jesus, Guns”. I cringed because although Palin was ok on those issues, that was NOT who she was. Rush, the ideologue, pigeonholed Palin and she and McCain were never able to campaign on her record of prudent, common sense governing in Alaska and as mayor of Wasilla.

Let me tell you something, if I gave you a choice of lowering the marginal corporate income tax rate from 39% to say 25%, and the other choice was lower it to 5%, which would you pick.

The conservative would select the first choice or use the second choice to short high but settle on the 25% rate as a prudent conservative reform to help the economy.

So many on our side are such purists. They remind me of the Ron Paul supporters of 2012, who were libertarian versions of the NOT prudent Sanders.

Prudence, and incremental reforms, and a strong reluctance to put into place changes that are just too gut-wrenching short-term.

Prudence in our immigration policy would be to stop immigration because the culture is being eroded and we are nowhere near assimilating immigrants at any rate. The % of the people in the USA who were born outside of the USA is simply too high. Prudence demands that we enforce current immigration law to avoid the destruction of the country.