Get new blood Republicans, OK.
All that does is buy you a little bit more time though. As we elect more and more not-so-Conservative Republicans or "new blood Republicans" as you call them (a good phrase), then the party is going to keep moving away from Conservative beliefs.
I don't want to guess anybody's age, but I would almost guess that many of those Conservatives who are unhappy with the GOP are older.
If you are under 35, all you've known is Clinton and Bush. In that case, Bush is going to look very Conservative, and the GOP is going to look Conservative to you, when measured against Clinton and the liberals.
I have this quote that I saved from Jim Robingson, from years ago - please understand it's way out of context, but it sometimes sums up what I feel these days:
Well, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. You people are sick! Conservatives my ass. You people are nothing but a bunch of non-thinking hypocrits! You're a shame and a disgrace to the Republic.....Elect another one and I'll tell you what. I'll be ready for war! It'll be time to take up arms and run the filthy lying bastards out!
It was from somewhere in
this thread (I remember it, because it was one of the last threads I participated in under an old handle, before I went overseas to an area where I didn't have internet access for a few years), and I think I actually mangled two quotes of JR's, but anyways, the thread was about these very same issues - the changing of the GOP. I don't know how far down JR's quotes were, or even what context - it started out about the allegations surrounding President Bush and cocaine, but then partially turned into a much more relevant argument of how the GOP was changing.
The thread was from 1999, and there were much earlier threads here on FR, and on usenet, about how the GOP was changing and had been changing.
My point in bringing it up, is that we've been facing this "changing of the guard" for quite some time. I voted for Bush even after that thread and others where I said I was going to support more Conservative candidates, when I should have been voting for somebody else.
I feel that if we don't get the GOP back to it's Conservative roots, another six years will slide by, and where will we be?