Very well stated! Count me in as part of your pragmatic idealists. If the use of the word "true conservative" is what I have seen on these posts recently attacking Jim and the rest of us for daring to disagree with them with our support of our President and wanting a Republican Congress, then I am comfortable just being called a flat out Republican that leans conservative. In OK where I live, voting for conservatives is an easy task since moderate Republicans in this part of the Country are not that plentiful.
I am not a one issue voter and never will be. I prefer to see the big picture and that is Republicans in charge of the entire Congress so we can control the Chairmanships. Guess that makes me NOT a "true conservative" whatever that means!
Going to be one of those folks that has a long memory of who was with us or against us! And I don't think I am the only one!
Me too! It's just amazing to me how many people will take the position that if the President doesn't agree with them on every issue, then he is not a good president, as some even say a traitor. Blah!
I didn't bother to answer the original questions on this topic because the very nature of the persons post and questions proves they do not have a real clue about the real world. In fact I consider myself a Conservative Republican, but would have trouble supporting a candidate with the rigid views that are expressed by so many of the anti Bush people here. They live in a dream world. Maybe idealistic from their point of view, but dream world regardless.