Maybe you better do some serious thinking about how the GOP operates and just who in fact is controlling it now. Poppy didn't listen to conservatives he lost. Dole didn't listen he lost also. Junior nearly lost and only the way he barely won was the fact it was Tarnished Al Gore in 2000 and Looney Left Kerry in 2004 did he even win by a very small margin. McCain didn't listen and he lost. Who should the GOP run in 2112? Lindsey Graham because moderates and the media love him so much? Yea that should work out fine. /sarcasm
Votes should never be strictly political party based. That is a recipe for tyranny and and an open invitation for a coming dictatorship. Votes should be based solely on individual platform, individual record and qualifications, and individual character.
I bad mouth the GOP because it pretends to be something it isn't. I loathe the DEMs Party but hey at least they make it openly known they are Socalist. The GOP can't be two parties and survive. The GOP being DEM LITE is destroying our nation as much as The Dems because it is shutting out any true policy opposition.
I love how squishy "Republicans" are constantly lecturing conservatives about how we have to continue to enable their capitulations. Now '47 is telling me she's on the side of the "Founders."
As if.
Here's the truth: despite the fact that conservatives are the heart, soul, and deep-pockets of the GOP, and always have been, we've had just two actual conservatives since 1900: Coolidge and Reagan. Teddy: liberal, Hoover: liberal, Nixon: liberal. Eisenhower, Ford, the Bushes: go-along-to-get-alongs.
It's also amusing because they're actually the first to abandon ship despite all the sanctimony. Who went from Capitol Hill to the White House to tell Nixon (a liberal Republican on every issue except anticommunism) they wouldn't fight for him? Hugh Scott and the rest of the pansy liberal and moderate 'Pubs. Who wrote the laudatory articles and actually voted for BH0? Peggy Noonan, Chris Buckley (not even a shadow of his old man) Kathleen Parker, David Brooks and all the other conservative haters, leaving the rest of us to defend the indefensible John McCain [the very linguine they foisted on us to begin with.]
My prediction: '47 will be lecturing us next year about how we've got to do an amnesty deal, or some other inanity that the Beltway GOP loves.