There are so many examples of conservatives serving in the role of useful idiots to Republican candidates.
How many election cycles have we heard candidates tout the flat tax, or dumping the IRS? It is always red meat for conservative voters. Then, crickets.
Same election time static occurs on the subject of abortion. Then, crickets.
There is just always another election around the corner every two years that makes it convenient to ditch all that campaign bait. I don’t fault Cruz on ridding us of the IRS, or Paul for turning the abortion debate around on democrats. Presidents can’t do these things without a willing majority on the Hill.
What you say is only partly true.
You have to get elected first. Most of the ‘flat tax’ candidates don’t get elected. As a matter of fact, none of them have been elected.
Once elected they must be willing to use the power of the executive fully to get their way. This is one thing we as Conservatives can learn from Obama. He’s unafraid to install his edicts by hook or by crook.
A President can do virtually anything. They simply have to remember that their vote is worth 357 votes of the Legislature. That is the amount of votes needed to over turn a VETO. 290 in the House and 67 in the Senate.
If a POTUS is willing to exert his authority there is little he couldn’t do rather quickly. It only takes the will and the guts to use the power.