Republicans, who and/or what do they represent?

I've been wrestling with a conundrum: Why have the liberals been so much more successful in pushing their agenda than the conservatives?

I grew up believing that the Democrats were the party of the liberals and stood for more government involvement in the lives of our citizenry and, therefore, stood for more spending and more taxes; Republicans were the the party of the conservatives and stood for less government involvement in our lives and, therefore, less spending and less taxes. After much thought, I've come to the conclusion that what I learned growing up was true for the Democrats but not for the Republicans. In other words, I've come to the conclusion that conservatives don't have a political party and, therefore, they have representation in the seats of power of the United States government.

Okay. I'll grant you that we've had a few conservatives in elected office, but in reality not many. The vast majority of our Republican politicians talk a good game but when they get to Washington D.C. its a different story. I'll even admit the the Republicans, when they've had enough seats, have occasionally pushed through a tax cut. But, when it comes to spending and size of government, they are dam near as bad as the Democrats. That is why I say that the conservatives have no party to truly represent them in our government.

Its time that the true conservatives took control of the Republican Party. I'm talking about an actual coup. We need to dump all of these false conservatives and back candidates that when elected will maintain true conservative ideals. That's the only way we are going to counter-balance the liberals on the other side of the aisle.

Enough said.

Sense or nonsense?