And we wouldn’t have this problem today is our party hadn’t strayed from the values of Goldwater over the last 8 years.
What people think they are and how they act are two wholly different things. Also, if religion is very important to one he or she may classify themselves as conservative while on economic issues or the size of government they are liberal to very liberal. Depending upon which of the categories of religion, social issues, economics or size of government one considers the most important he or she may classify themselves as conservatives but at the voting polls they may be swayed by extraneous matters such as charisma.
Too bad for the Republicans they cannot plausibly call themselves a conservative party anymore. All that competing with the Democrats to buy off the mushy middle has left them with nothing to sell.
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