Why are so many people willing to accept mediocrity or worse? Have you no faith that there is another Ronald Reagan out there?
I will submit there are many potential Reagans out there, but they are not coming forward because conservative voters are willing to sell out to Republican whores. We make the would be Reagans run against incumbents who have the advantages of prior pork spending in their districts, the advantages of the known over the unknown, name recognition for the average dumbed down American voter and access to campaign funds. Add to this the fact that politics is a dirty business. There is no one among us who has not done something they are ashamed of or that could be embarrassing to us. Political campaigns are going to bring our skeletons out of the closet. I would guess there are some potential Reagans who simply don't want to be examined under a public microscope bent on destroying their reputations.
Electing and re-electing spineless Republicans makes it next to impossible to elect Reaganesque leaders. Things are not going to get better until we demand more from those we elect or throw them out and demand more from their replacements. Voting for status quo Republicans is worse than not voting. It makes replacing poor Republicans with genuine conservatives even harder. If you want the Republicans to be an alternative to Democrats, don't vote for them unless they are. Our downward spiral into socialism is not going to end until we change the character of the Republican Party.