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Originally Posted by sunnyside
Alright I'm getting the feeling that people who call themselves "real conservatives" aren't really a unified group. It's just what a number of different flavors like to call themselves sometimes.
So. Annoyingly. Nearly any candidate you pick will have "real conservatives" clamboring about it.
But the sorts of people who are unhappy about him here, judging by responses, take issue with the fact that he's for lower taxes but not going straight for a fairtax structure instead of progressive taxation.
Well and they disagree on social security but he's about as private as you can get with it before an election without committing political suicide by losing the old people vote.
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There were no "real" conservative candidates, the only one close was Ron Paul. They all tried to compare themselves to Ronald Reagan, but they were all nonsense. The only person up there that voted to nominate Reagan originally was Ron Paul. Even Paul is against gay marriage and abortion, which are both free choices which do no harm to anyone else (sans abortion, another issue).
The question you're asking is impossible to answer, as the terms and their parties have become so muddled that no one knows what to call whom anymore.