[CindyDawg]

Maybe...maybe not. How do you get the Rinos out? They have the power. We went thru this in 2006. Remember the “just hold your nose?” Nothing seems to have changed. Sometimes you just have to accept that things aren't going to work and take a different route. Would it not be better to build a conservative party? JAT

[glock rocks]

We went thru this in 2006. Remember the “just hold your nose?” Nothing seems to have changed.

We should rebuild the grassroots conservative movement. From the Reagan Revolution of 1980 through the Contract with America in 1994, it was this movement from outside Washington that carried us to the first center-right majority governing coalition in more than 60 years.

The problem has not been with conservatism or with our voters.

The problem has been with Republican leaders who forgot who elected them and what values their supporters expected to see implemented in Washington.

— Newt Gingrich, 11-13-2006

[D-fendr]

You get the Rinos out the same way they got in, candidates and campaigns agianst them.

There’s not benefit, and a great many costs in building a new conservative party versus rebuilding the GOP as the Reagan conservative party.

I was there, it’s doable, and much more doable than building a new party with all its craziness. It would take three times a long to select and build a new party as compared to transforming the GOP.

Parties are not static entities. The party before Reagan is not the same as during Reagan is not the same as after Reagan is not the same as during Bush is not the same as after Bush.

There is a structure and a method already in place. Take control of it.

Much more efficient that fighting over building a new structure.