Ideology and Pragmatism

The debate in the republican party is on whether to have party purification whatever that is it kinda scares me. Or make a bigger tent which is a legitimate argument. Conservatives love to talk about Ronald Reagan but to many don't know or don't look at his history and time in office. They simply say he won the cold war and the liberals blocked Robert Borke. These are both true but he also we have drinks many nights with Tip O'Neill the very liberal Speaker of the House. Conservatives today would want to execute Uncle Ronnie for that today. People forget the Neo-cons railed against President Reagan when he was in office hated the fact that he talked with the Soviets. They were very quick to take credit for the ending of the cold war though.
Neo-cons are not conservatives they are big government activist ideologues. Neo0cons are not pragmatic. They don't subscribe to the belief as Reagan did that somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is my friend. If there is any purification that should go on its the neo-conservatives that should receive a kick in the pants.
Pragmatism is how conservatives will win back the day, not ideology. Common sense conservatives should start to fight back. The job of a political party is to win elections and have a design on how there way of governing is better. NRSC chairman Sen. John Cornyn has said that we need to pick regional candidates that fit their particular states. But some how people aren't listening.
The party seems to have a cardboard cut out of the perfect conservative. Its all based on a social hard line ideologue that believes that dis-likes higher education and has a southern accent. Its like some leaders just want to have conservative factory in Georgia and just send out southern conservative clones to every state and run them as candidates. We have to stop legislating morality and feel good legislation. We must return to to states rights and have a foreign policy agenda that promotes less U.S. involvement in everybody else's business.