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Originally Posted by detbuch
Isn't it more likely that different "Republican" candidates, as well as different Republican voters, have different views and are not all going to insist that candidates must "sign on the dotted line" for all the correct views?
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I think this is the crux of the article.
Hell. Ron Paul and Rick Santorum are running for the same slot!
The identity of the "conservative" is a much bigger tent than the identity of the "liberal" in American politics. Usually less than 20 percent of Americans would even self describe themselves as "liberals".
Compare the USA to other successful nations like Australia and most of our Democrats are to the "right" of their Right Wing!
Icons like Reagan wouldn't even be on the GOP primary ballot given the politics of today, yet he led in many ways (not all certainly) as a pragmatist.
There's ideology and there's leadership. The joke that is the Republican primary is all the proof necessary that the party doesn't seem to understand what it really wants.
Ultimately they'll settle on what the enthusiastic crowd sees as the least worst. Fortunately for all of us he's not a terrible choice...
I have confidence in the end we'll have a good race for the next POTUS.
-spence