[rarestia]

We have met the enemy, and he is us.

[napscoordinator]

They can only pick our candidate if the voters listen to them. We need to educate our voters! Santorum was close but moderates liked Romney unfortunately. Santorum would have excited the base, Romney didn’t.

[Obadiah]

Time to boycott the RNC, although I’m quite sure the NYTimes is working to incite divisions within the Party.

That said, Karl Rove, the RNC, and the NYTimes would reject George Washington and Abraham Lincoln as “extreme”.

I am extreme. I love the Lord, and I am an American. Deal with it.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Let me go on record as saying the real GOP, those like Cruz and Palin stand up and speak the truth, need to quit messing around with the GOP and move.

Now.

The GOP is the problem. It is going to be a big job to start an effective new party.

START NOW.

[tbpiper]

often unpredictable Tea Party candidates

Not for those who know the Constitution.

[PATRIOT1876]

*draw a broader cross-section of Republicans and produce more moderate candidates.*

How can you get any more moderate than the RINO’s that are running things?!

The ones who want to go further to the Left should just become Democrats.

We don't need two Democrat Parties.

[riri]

Ok people, it is WAY past time to get OUT of this party.

[sickoflibs]

Maryland GOP has an open primary and they hold so few offices here they are irrelevant.

[TomGuy]

Sen. Hatch was just on Fox&Friends.

He claimed Cuccinelli would have won in Virgian 'if a couple of Senators had not shut down the government.'

He didn't mention Cruz & Lee by name.

[skinkinthegrass]

look @ the source, New York Slime.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

RNC stands for:

RINO National Committee.

Don't forget to call them that before you hang up.

[Personal Responsibility]

Leaders of the Republican establishment, alarmed by the emergence of far-right and often unpredictable Tea Party candidates, are pushing their party to rethink how it chooses nominees and advocating changes they say would result in the selection of less extreme contenders.

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I understand Reagan saying you can’t go third party (also pushed by Levin and others) but how do you reconcile that with the actions being taken by the party? They’re not going to give up power and will *literally* lie, cheat and steal to keep it.

I’m no third party advocate - I just don’t see how to reconcile this.

[McGavin999]

Sure, open primaries, that is what keeps McCain and his ilk in office. Let the moderates try to win without conservatives, that’s what is going to end up happening. Anyone who can’t identify Rove as a democrat by now is blind and deaf.

[tgusa]

Q: How much help was the RNC for Ken Cuccinelli? A:

[FreeReign]

The debate intensified on Wednesday after Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, the deeply conservative Republican candidate for governor of Virginia, lost a close race in which Democrats highlighted his opposition to abortion in almost all circumstances,...

54% of white woman in VA voted for Cuch.

[tennmountainman]

Open primaries are why we have the McCains. We had all better put a stop to this or we will be over run.!

[AppyPappy]

Because John McCain and Mitt Romney are a sure 7#25ing thing.

[big'ol_freeper]

RE: G.O.P. Weighs Limiting Clout of Right Wing

G.O.P. Weighs Limiting Clout of Right Wing Continuing Political Suicide

Fixed it.

[Viennacon]

The Founders were extreme. They made a nation that was extremely good.

[C. Edmund Wright]

I can’t read these posts…..the NYT - scared to death that in the after math of Virginia, where the GOPe is embarrassed as their tactics failed…that there won’t be enough fighiting inside the GOP….feeds the trolls with this one.