Stop focusing so damn much on what a candidate believes.
It’s the single most overrated, overhyped, overvalued metric in candidate evaluations.
(Especially for conservative voters, who salivate over ideological purity.) Instead, focus on priorities.
A candidate may believe a million different things, but he’s only going to do a (very) small number of ‘em.
And that’s the best-case scenario: Most politicians won’t even do that! And besides, priorities are a helluva lot more demonstrable than beliefs.
More testable.
A belief is something you profess; it’s an idea in your head.
But a priority is what you actually do.
And here in the real world, that matters more.
Like Mahatma Gandhi said, “Action expresses priorities.” Since 1994, conservatives have been mystified: Why do we keep sending “conservative” politicians to Congress — yet keep getting left-wing policies? We’re winning election after election, yet our “conservative” politicians never seem to pass any “conservative” legislation.
They just drift to the left at a (slightly) slower pace than the Dems.
So our government keeps growing, our debt keeps spiraling, and our nation keeps drifting.
Second verse, same as the first (but played at a slightly slower speed).
Some blame D.C.’s culture.
And that’s part of it: Hey, cocktail parties are fun! Nobody wants to be on the wrong side of the velvet ropes.
But honestly, it’s a cop-out.
D.C.’s culture isn’t the real reason.
It’s mostly because we’re electing “conservative” politicians whose actual priorities aren’t very conservative at all.
Priorities matter more than beliefs, and actions matter more than ideas.
In fact, I’ll even go one step further: Your priorities reveal the truth about your beliefs — and what you really stand for.
I’ll give you three examples.
Let’s begin with “Doctor” Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat candidate for Michigan’s Senate seat.
I put “doctor” in quotes because he’s never been licensed to practice medicine, completed his residency, or been employed as a doctor.
He’s basing his medical claims on his college degree — just like Katie Zacharia, who had a cup of coffee as the White House press secretary, did with her legal claims.
Yet the Republican was shamed by the media into resigning, and the Democrat was given a pass.
Of course, the mainstream media has a rather dubious track record of determining who’s a doctor and who isn’t: Perhaps there are reasons of style policy involved, but reading New York Times coverage of Dr.
El-Sayed, and remembering Times 2016 coverage of renowned brain surgeon Ben Carson makes you wonder: Did Carson ever get an MD? https://t.co/E5Ol6LV8Fx— Byron York (@ByronYork) October 16, 2026 Recently, news broke about “Doctor” El-Sayed’s college-level medical research.
You’ll never guess what topic he pursued.
From my PJ Media colleague Catherine Salgado: U.S.
Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, a Michigan Democrat, unlicensed doctor, and Egyptian citizen, conducted and published research in 2010 arguing that Arab women were at less risk for preterm birth if they married only Arab men instead of “interethnic mating.” Which is a pretty weird topic to research and write about — if not outright racist.[…]Is it just me, or does this read somewhat like an argument that Arab women need to keep their bloodlines pure by only "mating" with Arab men instead of with inferior white or black Westerners? It also reads like a Freudian minefield: El-Sayed is a “pure blood” Arab himself, but his Arab mother and Arab father divorced when he was very young, and he was raised by his Arab father and a white stepmom named Jacqueline Johnson.
(They went on to have three more children of their own.
I’m sure this paper made Abdul’s half-siblings feel wonderful.) But I’m less interested in his psychoanalysis than his priorities.
Because medical research is a vast, far-reaching, open-ended field: You can study anything you want! From social factors to genetic probabilities to life-saving solutions, the only limit is your imagination.
El-Sayed prioritized making a medical argument against Arabs “mating” with non-Arabs.
It was, definitionally, a racist proposal, a racist theory, and a racist conclusion.
And it reveals the truth about his character.
Because he could’ve researched cancer treatments.
Or how to make healthcare more affordable.
Or how to lower costs.
Or a million-zillion other things.
But he didn’t, because that’s not who Abdul El-Sayed is: His priorities are anchored in Middle East politics, Middle East peoples, Middle East conflicts, and Middle East hatreds.
Those are his passions.
That’s his character.
It’s not just what he says — it’s what he does.
Same goes for Tucker Carlson.
He owns, writes, and stars in a podcast on the Tucker Carlson Network.
It’s not like Fox News, where he was merely the hired help.
Tucker Carlson, presumably,....
