I hear you...
A lot depends on how, exactly, you define the word "conservative" and so just who, exactly, qualifies fully, qualifies partly, barely or not at all.
Different conservative groups have used different metrics to arrive at somewhat different rankings, from most to least conservative.
So some people say those rankings are useless, but if so, then there's no objective way to define "conservative" and everything depends strictly on personal opinions.
I don't think that could ever work, so we have to go by some objective measure, and this one seems as good as any.
It shows our most conservative senators are Blackburn and Ernst, the least among Republicans Collins, Shelby & Murkowski.
Both Kentucky senators rank much closer to CS&M than to Blackburn & Ernst, so I question why that is?
Democrats don't do that -- Schumer is much closer to Bernie than to Joe Manchin in his voting record.
Indeed, McConnell is closer to Schumer than he is to our more conservative Republicans!
It turns out: Senate Republicans' conservative center of gravity is right between the two Scotts -- Florida & South Carolina.
I'd think that's where our leaders should come from.
And there's another factor just as important as where they are today: a typical Republican career path is they start off being genuinely, consistently conservative but over the years become less & less to.
It's the same problem with judges & justices -- they never seem to go from Left to right, only the other way.
So leaders among Republicans should be selected from the more conservatives but also put on notice that when they begin to slip-slide, slip-slip-slide-slide Left, they'll be immediately replaced, and then do it.
That's my suggestion for how to clean up the Republicans and turn them into a potent ideological force, to counter & ballast the Democrats' ever increasing uncontrolled political insanity.