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I've come to the conclusion that a "true conservative" or a "real Republican" cannot actually exist in the real world. Or, at least, that a person who is informed enough about the world to be a potential presidential candidate cannot be one of those things. For example, a "true conservative" would be focused on freeing the United States government from the world government sponsored scientific conspiracy to impose a black supremacist, communist, totalitarian regime on the US. However, an actual person who is informed enough to last 10 seconds even in a debate against other Republicans would have to know enough to know that that is all just made up stuff. Fox has created an impossible standard. The closest you can come is to pull hicks directly out of their shacks where their only access to the world was through Fox and throw them immediately into a campaign (like say what you did with Sharon Angle) but election cycles are too long these days for somebody like that to slip through without people noticing that they're stupid.
IMO the GOP voters need to refocus on picking a candidate that adheres to the actual conservative positions- favoring a reduction in economic regulation and fighting reductions in the regulation of people's personal lives. Candidates like that actually exist. In fact there are tons of them. But until the GOP base gets that worked out, they will continue eventually rejecting every possible candidate they pick as a "RINO".
i disagree
that dick cheney would be the epitome of a real conservative republican