The problem for many Republicans and conservative voters is that they are fatally purists and readily dismiss a candidate permanently if they don’t pass the test 100%.
Liberals, on the other hand, will take the chosen candidate regardless of any warts, fallacies, illegalities, or lies and vote like zombies.
Conservatives are generally more principled people and the strict adherence to those principles splits us and we lose.
Spot on !!!!
Liberals will vote on one or two issues that have been articulated to their satisfaction. They don’t hear the rest, they don’t care about the rest, they certainly don’t consider the implications of the whole.
Conservatives exclude candidates based on one or two issues, we listen to everything, we care about all the issues and consider the whole.
A liberal will vote for a Democrat because they agree with them on, say, gay marriage, even though they completely disagree with 0bamacare. They hear what they want to hear and ignore the rest.
In 1980 there was little doubt who the nominee would be...and we sailed to complete victory.
We haven't had that since.
Reagan was able to unite the conservatives and libertarians.
Who can do that now?