Chapter Fourteen
Final Thoughts
In this book, I have attempted to demonstrate that there are certain traits and beliefs that voters attach to every political party and by association to its candidates. While these traits and beliefs can certainly change over time, there are basic assumptions that the voting public makes when one calls themselves a Republican. Certainly, ensuring fiscal responsibility, fighting to make government smaller and closer to the people, protection of family values and reducing taxes are beliefs that, if you choose to label yourself as a member of the Republican Party, you had better be prepared to conduct yourself in accordance with such principles. History shows that when a member of the GOP fails to embrace our party’s core value system, they face the significant risk that the voters who typically support Republican candidates might just choose to stay home on election day or cast their vote for some third party candidate in protest.