The point is that the Republican party does not “reach out” to conservatives, because it can’t. All it can do is not try to block them at every turn, which it tries to do.
Who *can* reach out to conservatives are individual candidates who demonstrate that they have core values and stick to them. Nobody, literally nobody, ever votes for a candidate because of their ability to compromise their core values with someone who does not share those values.
The *failure* of Republican candidates is that they far too often come across as the woman before King Solomon, who was willing to take “half a baby”, cut in half with a sword. The conservatives want a candidate who loves the baby so much that they would rather lose it to another than have it destroyed, out of “compromise”.
Many of them are so mushy that even if they could have the whole baby, they still want to offer half, out of some weird notion of “fairness”.
That’s the best description I’ve ever read!
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The Cabal That Quietly Took Over the House
Conservatives are taking over. Boehner knows he'll be tossed if gives on amnesty. The pundit class is talking to hear themselves talk.
House approves farm bill in big win for Boehner and Republican leaders
Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) cast passage as a victory for farmers and conservatives who wanted reforms to farm programs. He acknowledged it took "hard work" to win passage.