Yeah,it IS that hard or we would already have it. The reason for this is there is no money and no power in being a conservative because it means you aren't a team player,and the other politicians can't count on you to throw some graft their way. Conservatism cuts into their cash flow and their power because it benefits the people more than it benefits the lawmakers.
Has nothing at all to do with it. The bottom line is pragmatism, and lesser evil.
They have no real control over who gets voted in. That's the voters.
what's wrong is the idea that any Republican is better than a democrat - That is false. voting for the leser democrat is why the Republican party is full of liberals.
Why do you think they all lie like hell to get into office? They all sing a Conservative song during campaign season (the big orange blowhard included), but they're lying through their teeth. That's why it has always been a Conservative principle to vote for em according to their record, rather than their promises.
If all Republicans did that, there would be way more than a handful of Conservatives in office right now. The ones there are are either from ultra Conservative regions, or just dumb luck.
You are old enough you should remember what the DNC and their accomplices in the alleged Republican Party and the media did to Barry Goldwater. The lies they told about him teeter on the border of criminality. He flat scared them all to death because he put country before self,and he couldn't be bought or blackmailed.
Not quite that old - Reagan was my first and best vote ever. But I DO know. As an actual Conservative, my roots are in Goldwater via Reagan.
Reagan winning office was a fluke. The left consider themselves to be geniuses,and they didn't take Reagan seriously because they thought he was a slow-witted Rube. After all,if he wasn't a Rube,WHY wasn't he a leftist,right? By the time they realized he was playing them like a pimp plays a whore,it was too late to stop him.
What Reagan said wrt voting is TRUE.
All it takes is for Conservatives to vote for true (read Reagan) Conservatives - A candidate that embraces ALL of Conservatism means ALL factions are driving the bus, no faction is in the back of the bus, and the RINOs are under the bus.
A candidate who is a Goldwater Conservative, a social conservative, and fiscally conservative, with a real knowledge (record) of what our military stands for and goes through is not only going to get elected, but is going to do the right things.
The moderates pimp the social conservatives (politically gullible) because they need the votes, and pimp the military because they need them for nation building, but invariably fiscal responsibility and Goldwater style civil-libertarianism go right under the bus.
That's what pragmatism brings every time.
The left and their towel boys in the alleged Republican Party have been very,very careful since then to not let a outsider gain any traction. As a result,all we have gotten for Republican candidates since Reagan were shape-shifting treasonous scum like the Bush Crime Family.
Voted in there because of 'pragmatism'.
They are playing to populism to get the votes. The most self evident example is McCain-Palin. But Trump is no different.
The along comes Trump. A sometimes Republican,and a sometimes Dim,all depending on who held the top offices he would need favors from or access to so he could pay the bribes.
LOL! That's right. He's a player alright... What's hilarious is that he's been able to sell the fact that he's a player with some sort of a mythical 'conservative' halo. LOL! That's a laugh-riot!
Trump won it because the mainstream didn't take him seriously,and they and the media actually HELPED him win the nomination by continually reporting that he's "not really a politician". There was also the "NYC resident and friend to the leftist scum that run that city" thing. They figured because of that nobody that voted Republican that wasn't from the northeast would vote for him. It went right over their heads that THESE WERE THE REASONS PEOPLE DID VOTE FOR HIM.
He waltzed them right down the garden path. The voters, I mean. Media had nothing to do with it except playing the bad guy. Y'all have been SO played.
As a result,he owes nobody anything,and he has enough money and ego to resist any "kiss,kiss,and make up" attempt they try now.
ROTFLMAO! You REALLY believe that?
He has been demeaned and insulted,and so has his wife and children,so IMNSHO,he is determined now to prove they were wrong by being the best president he can be so he can rub their noses in it. It's alll about ego now,and nobody has a bigger ego than Trump.
Yeah.... no. The 'insulted' thing is his shtick. It's his main play, and always has been... OMG! It is so easy to see, as he is practically a one trick pony. As is the good-cop-bad-cop thing he's got going on with republican leadership, just like he did with the media.
Ask yourself this: Considering his propensities, why isn't he full-scale tearing down Republican leadership? They are supposedly in his way, and what does he do to anything that is in his way?
THINK.
