My first thought is that no sane person would ever have a chance of being considered “conservative enough” by the Freedom Caucus, so to answer this question we must begin by stipulating whether we want someone who will cater to the 495 more moderate congressional critters and the majority of the general public or whether we want someone who caters to the extremist minority at the expense of the other 80% of Americans and an even larger percentage of the rest of the world. .
If the former, I think policy matters less than the ability to deal with petulant children. Someone like R. Lee Ermey who will get right in someone’s face and dress them down at high decibels when they get stupid.
If the latter, resurrect Torquemada. I think he’d fit right in.
@stanleybmanly It’s also a self-inflicted one. If the GOP were a person, the coroner would write it off as suicide. That part is what is getting laughed at so that we don’t cry over the fact that all we have left are people who make Kim Jong-il seem well-balanced. And honestly, the self-destruction of the GOP scares me for a variety of reasons, not least of which being concern over what the Batshit Brigade might do once they get done gutting the Republican party.