Face it - most of the republican party just doesn't believe what we believe. They say what they say to get elected.
Political conservatives suffer a natural disadvantage as compared with liberals and Progressives: they believe in government as the font of human rights and progress and they believe in it as a proper and natural vocation. They believe in expansive Government, not merely as a means of providing a legal framework for the exercise of personal rights and responsibilities, and the prevention of force and fraud, but rather as a means of driving a process of social and economic transformation.
Conservatives believe that human rights come from God or our nature, that progress is best achieved by voluntary human action and cooperation, and that participation in government is not a vocation, but a service and a duty apart from one's true livelihood. In this traditional view, Government derives its power only from the informed consent of the governed, and such power must be limited and appropriate to a narrowly defined set of purposes.
The Republican Party in America has become a natural home to those of conservative temperament, but its leaders frequently diverge from those who elect them because, more often than not, they share the Liberal affinity for the exercise of political power as a primary vocation, and are equally desirous of its perquisites and sometimes also, of its transformative means and ends.
