He wants to fix the government.
The other wing wants to reduce the size of government to the constitutionally mandated level.
Both wings are better than the Marxists vision of government.
However, with our two wings neutralizing each other, we are letting the Marxists prevail.
One of the supposed criticisms of the Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and House conservative wing of the GOP, is they aren’t all that interested in deal making or governing (as the term is understood in DC...increase government). I think it’s a fair point and one that speaks well of them.
The Republican wing of the GOP (Speaker John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Senator Susan Collins, and Senator Bob Corker, etc) is interested not in “small government” but “smaller government”. “Smaller” than what? The answer to that is the key. Most often it’s not “smaller than we have now” it’s “smaller than the Democrats want it to be in the future but bigger than now”.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/344339.php
Succinct yet comprehensive summary of our current political situation. I like it