[elbucko]

As in a chess game, you need to look NOT just at the next move, but several moves ahead, at the consequences of your actions.

That's asking for some of these "gentlemen" to engage the "tactical" portion of their minds. Something I doubt some of them have.

[FairOpinion]

These what I call "purist" conservatives all have indeed pure idealistic motives and good intentions, but we know that a road paved with good intentions go straight to h*ll.

To be successful, as in turning the political landscape towards conservatives, we need to be pragmatic, and get something through our heads: A moderately conservative person is FAR preferable to ending up with a leftist liberals, because we insist on a superconservative candidate, who is unelectable by the general electorate.

So we had a "conservative success" in nominating Bill Simon in California, which of course resulted in the reelection of Gray Davis, when if moderate Republican Riordan had gotten the R. nomination, he would have trounced Davis, because he could get the moderate Democrat support.