This is what LITD means by being proactive

Don't leave the field open to a non-conservative blowhard to state upfront what all conservatives should have come out of the gate with as a key component of their agendas:

Speaking with Fox News host Chris Wallace this weekend, 2016 GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump made a remarkable statement about what he planned for the Department of Education, if and when he becomes president.

“I may cut Department of Education,” Trump said. “I believe Common Core is a very bad thing. I believe that we should be — you know, educating our children from Iowa, from New Hampshire, from South Carolina, from California, from New York. I think that it should be local education.”

Many Americans agree, especially as the Department of Education has grown into a massive bureaucracy more focused on indoctrinating students in the Islamic faith and “white privilege” than in actually teaching them things that matter, like, say, literature and math.

You real conservatives have such better chops in terms of applying principles to issues like this one. Someone on your staffs should have foreseen that the matter of DoE's existence might come up.

Now, you're all reduced to rushing in to fill the vacuum, to engaging in me-too-ism.

Think of everything that constitutes your set of core principles. And get out front. Don't wait one microsecond, or Squirrel-Hair will be at the front of the line.