The Importance of Leadership

It’s amazing how people currently evaluate the republican nominee. When the race started it looked like 10 different people up on stage all saying the same thing. One by one they’ve all been torn down. Yet, those with credible “conservative” ideals have been at the bottom of the polls. We all know what the country needs: low taxes, less regulation, small government, strong borders, healthy foreign policy, etc. However, few candidates have the leadership to be able to sway the masses. In a political role, most of the leadership is done through communication. If you can’t paint the vision and sell it to the masses, why should you ever become president?

We have the ideologues – while accurate of what we need, completely fail to realize that we need the agreement of others to actually “complete the agenda”. For those that can’t see what will be happening a year from now, for as much we battle it out in the republican candidacy, we are completely losing the congressional status. Which means, most likely we will have a democrat majority congress. Therefore, we need more than just a conservative “hard-liner” unwilling to move from their positions. If someone like that gets elected, be prepared to await more government gridlock.

People need to accept we are in a BAD place right now. We need to lower regulation, more than anything. The tax policy, at this point, needs to be reasonable, but more importantly it needs to be consistent. The hard job of selling people out of their entitlements, which is exactly what cutting spending is, needs to be done by the people, and not expected to be done by the commander in chief.

I often wonder if Reagan, who we praise so much as the model to fill, would have been chosen in this day and age. Would he have been described as a “screaming liberal”? Probably. Despite his performance governing California, he was still elected, and what was the main trait he possessed? Communication, eloquence. Even he could not stop government spending, energy independence, or reversing the national debt. Yet, he has been regarded as the “ideal” conservative candidate. Hence, I urge conservatives to not get to scrutinous on every single candidate. ANYONE is better than Obama at this point.