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You can be very doctrinaire, you can demand purity, but in the end if you want to advance policy that you want enacted you have to win elections,

As in every movement, there is a tendency by some to try to out-conservative the others.

Absolute conservatism. Is there such a thing?
What would it look like? And how many people would support it?

[Norm Lenhart]

But the thing is, Even people like me that are all about voting for principled conservatives would be perfectly happy if the GOP would ONLY support the GOP platform. Why is that so much to ask?

All us labeled purists are well and good with the traditional 80% and all the big issues. That should not be a high bar for anyone claiming to be a right winger considering we are right wingers because of our stance on the big issues.

And voting with today’s Democrats 1 in 5 times is FAR from ‘pure’.