A curious statement: "Our party represents the full spectrum of conservatism" - Granite Grok

A curious statement: “Our party represents the full spectrum of conservatism”

I don’t even know what that means – a full spectrum.  This is from a Union Leader piece on “GOP voters still seeking their conservative candidate” and quoted NH GOP Chair Horn:

Jennifer Horn, chairwoman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, said every Republican candidate is presenting a stronger vision for America than the Democrats in the race. She said the GOP candidates are conveying conservative messages and solutions.

“Our party represents the full spectrum of conservatism,” Horn said.

What DOES that mean?  What is a full spectrum?  Is this just another way to paraphrase Gene Chandler (former Speaker of the NH House and Establishment Republican) pronouncement that “Any person with an R after their name is a good Republican”.  Lately, the Party has been working hard to make the moral equivalence that being a Republican is automatically a conservative.  Sorry, you can’t skirt the issue that way for it is clear with ratings groups at the national and NH levels, it is CLEAR that many moderate Republicans are often “outvoted” in support of the Constitution and Party Platform by Democrats – so how does that play into being “conservative”?

Let’s take just one example: Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion.  How is expanding Government a “conservative” staple?  How is making Government more expensive a mark of a conservative?  How is making Government more in control of decisions instead of the Individual showing conservatism?

None of them are and that’s just one single example in which we see Ohio Gov. John Kasich (running for President and a Sununu family darling) excoriating anyone who speaks up against him on this as being a bad Christian.  I’ve railed against NH State Senators Chuck Morse, Jeb Bradley, and Nancy Stiles for lying that their Medicaid Expansion (for if Obama’s money wasn’t there, would they have authored and passed it?) wouldn’t cost “NH taxpayers” anything, knowing that most of us DO pay Federal taxes from which this is being taken (and 10% from NH funds to boot).

OK, Jennifer, ‘splain this to me and others – WHAT is that “broad spectrum” and what are its end points?  Certainly I would be on the rightmost edge but how Left would a Republican’s vote have to go and that you’d still continue to call it a “conservative” one?

Or is this statement of your’s merely a CYA for a W and not worrying about what comes later?

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