Conservatives want leaders with common sense, courage, and principle

For years the American electorate has had two choices: Democrats, the party of more big government; and Republicans, the party of slightly less more big government. The two parties interchanged control, but the country remained on the same path to excessive growth of the federal government, expansion of it outside of its Constitutional boundaries, and excessive debt funding failed government policies.

The Republican Party leadership was complicit in this expensive loss of our liberty because they became captured by Washington, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and the other centers of cultural elitism. They wanted to belong and get paid. They allowed the left and its lackeys in the legacy media to define the terms of every discussion.

The GOP would probably do well to reconsider their declared unpopularity by the media, or the blame that is being assigned by the various polls.

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.

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