“I hope Rand is in the Senate a good long time.
He can broaden the tent of our team and he’ll be right about 80% of the time, while his 20% wacko policies can be blunted by his colleagues.
However, as president or a presidential candidate, he’d be a disaster for us.”
Who, in your opinion, would surpass your 80% minimum requirement? I’ll take 80% anyday of the week.
Virtually none of our GOP leaders seem immune to failing on the most important issue in that 20%, which is an amnesty giveaway.
But the likes of closing Gitmo and freeing captured terrorists is a pretty dangerous position of Rand’s as well, and I’m not comfortable about his take on Israel either.
I’m not actually too concerned about his libertarian social positions.
Ted Cruz is probably the guy I agree with most on the national stage, though I like Palin despite her McCainesque position on immigration.
Really, there are no perfect candidates.
Amnesty could be 5% of a pol’s positions, but it is death to electoral victory for what could his 05% conservative stance, so it means everything.
There aren’t nearly enough anti-illegal immigration pols in the GOP. Ted Cruz at least sounds like one, and Palin has been on the fence, seemingly back and forth on it, but we’ve let it pass too often in selecting our representatives.