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Here's what happens when you are Speaker of the House and arrange to cut off funds for other Republicans ~ you end up as just another member, and there'll be a new Speaker who is a Democrat.

I don't have the reference handy, but I recall a story about Barry Goldwater where he was asked point-blank why he was supporting a follow Republican senator with whom he seriously disagreed on many issues. Goldwater's response was to the effect of "because I head the NRSC".

Same idea... when you are part of the party leadership, you have taken on the responsibility to work in the best interests of the party, which may at time conflict with your own personal views, in order to build a working majority.

work in the best interests of the party

Some of us have finally had it with this compromising for the interests of a party which has no principles beyond a desire to win the next election. The Demonrat Party has a strategy, a long-term plan, to turn American into a Soviet state. The Pubbies answer is: "well, we're gonna cut taxes a little here, cut spending a little there." They merely slow down the slide toward the abyss. Conservatives outnumber leftists in this country. It's time to offer a principled conservative candidate, not another devious sociopath.

> responsibility to work in the best interests of the party,
> which may at time conflict with your own personal views, in
> order to build a working majority.

Is it in the best interest of the party to provide support for the likes of Scuzzyface, a pro-abortion, anti-gun, “progressive” that will vote against you in Congress regardless of which side of the aisle it occupies? Or even defect to the other party when doing so would give the opposition the power to grant the aforementioned pro-abortion, anti-gun “progressive” Republican a committee chair?

Sorry.

Principle MUST trump pragmatism.

If not, then all you have is a bunch of unprincipled, opportunist politicos, like much of the current Co0ngress and Senate.

Gingrich is a pragmatist. His principles take second place to his schema.

I do not trust him and will not vote for him in the primary.

I will be forced once again to vote for the lesser of two evils on the presidential ballot if it’s Gingrich against he Maoist Moslem Alien.

How's this "R" ueber alles working out in reality? Dede Scozzafava cancels Newt's vote, muddies the water of what it is to be a Republican and with Partial Birth Abortion; is nothing beyond the pale?

David Duke was beyond the pale and Partial Birth Abortion is NOT? Really. Did you support Arlen Specter?

This is the question I'm posing; is it only about winning, winning at all costs? We're watching the destruction of our nation at the hands of politicians mostly on the left, but also in the GOP, who play your game. More of this will save the country. Really?

I'm sick of the Realpolitik people here and in the GOP, who's policies, when they actually meet reality are a disaster. And I'm not being realistic? BS! Doing the same ol' is only going to get us the same ol' and we're twirling around the drain right now. That's the destination of the Realo's. Oh, and only Romney can win. Yeah, right.