"[C]onservatives play an important role. ... If you have any organization, any family, the person who's always asking the question, 'How much does this cost and who's going to pay for it?' plays an important role. The person who asks, 'Should we even be doing this?' plays an important role!"
And this reminds me instantly of my grandfather. He was always smiling, funny, charming and generous, but he was also an an accountant by training and spent his life being very financially prudent and encouraging others, respectfully, to do the same. He was always asking questions like that, even when he immediately came to the conclusions: 'Yes! Let's do it!'
He was a lifelong Republican in the mold of Nelson Rockefeller or George Romney, always wanting to be prudently active with money to help everyone around him, his family, his friends, those he helped by doing their taxes for them for free every year, the small business owners in the city who he mentored through a volunteer program.
I truly think he would be horrified to see what has become of his party today. As W. Kamau Bell said to concur with Jones: "The person who asks for the birth certificate does NOT play an important role!" When you are obsessed with Benghazi or repealing Obamacare instead of reforming the parts that don't work well, you are NOT helping, you are NOT governing, you are NOT playing an important role!
