When I hear that the GOP is being taken over by radicals I have to ask — seriously? The problem with the GOP in D.C is that it’s not even conservative. If you think it’s being taken over by “radicals,” then I don’t think you understand what a conservative is. This is probably because you don’t know any conservatives, never talk to any conservatives, have never read any conservative books or publications and are so left on the political spectrum that anyone really conservative seems like an extremist to you. Respectfully, I think it shows a deep misapprehension of what it means to be a conservative. Being a conservative means believing in small federal government, respecting individual rights and freedoms, free markets, originalism, federal fiscal responsibility and respecting the concept of federalism. It can also mean respecting traditional values, but this probably goes under the respecting federalism heading. There are not many elected officials in the GOP in Congress or Senate who can satisfy the definition of true “conservative.”
