Conservatives are uninterested in politicians who do not behave conservatively with regard to fiscal issues, the ability to advocate prioritization in the midst of required difficult funding trade-offs, or who abdicate the optimistic embrace of and faith in a people who can build their own prosperity and opportunities without a consistent level of high subsidy and regulation from its governments.
We don't need additional GOP politicians who can give progressive support to leftists that simply want their way lest they throw a tantrum, shut various government services down, and blame it on the conservative opponent.
Rather, the demographic that would support a conservative candidate is looking for conservative behavior. And that behavior wants spending reductions rather than tax increases - as we already take in trillions in revenue per year.
Conservatives want government run much more efficiently, and thus the meager faux cuts of the Sequester ought to be directed to that objective and then increased!
But most of all, conservatives are looking for courage, principle, and judgement.
When fiscal conservatives split to a third alternative, the progressive opponent wins - witness Bill Clinton's win over George H. W. Bush as a result of Ross Perot's candidacy.
Thus, their strategy is to slowly convert the existing GOP. Seems to be working, regarding judgment conversion. Can the GOP win with that? Questionable. But the electorate already has a progressive alternative. We don't need two.
It is the progressive element that would like the GOP to split into mainstream and conservative versions. That would be a great outcome for them, of course.
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