For years I believe that the GOP stood for fiscal and social conservatism – smaller government, fewer rules and regulations, lower taxes, and family values.

Until Bush the elder led to Bill Clinton and Bush the younger led to Barack Obama. Both Bushes were northeastern liberal elites, crony capitalists with progressive values and a penchant for secrecy.

The party itself refused to embrace the politics of Ronald Reagan and continued to offer up progressives like John McCain and Mitt Romney who were just more of the same.

And, when presented with a true constitutional conservative that spoke with eloquence and passion about the conservative cause, the establishment gave us Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump while rejecting Ted Cruz because he would not cut deals on his core believes or disavow his promises.

Now we are truly screwed with a rather lightweight celebrity billionaire bully boy and faced with the possibility of electing the devil or the devil’s advocate.

Fading fast …

Bottom line …

We may not get the presidency, but we need to hold a majority in the Senate and the House. But, that presupposes the leadership of both chambers have the cojones to resist the progressives embedded in both the House and the Senate to keep them from handing the progressive one victory after another. These progressives in the GOP are easy to find: Senators McConnell, McCain, Graham, Hatch, Blunt, Cochran and others.  All who have jumped the aisle to promote progressive policies as if they were on Team Obama.

We also need to insure that the Congress does the heavy lifting – no more publishing an outline and then outsourcing the rules and regulations to the executive branch agencies.

We need leaders with cojones … not people who can just yell loud and hurl insults.

-- steve