“The rule has to be that the caucus will unify by whomever wins a majority of the caucus vote. Otherwise, you can’t elect anyone.”
Just an FYI... that (below in quotes)... was a comment Nitzy made that I was replying to. Not my comment, IOW. But yeah, you have a valid point there. The GOP needs to purge those “”moderates”” that always seem to vote with Democrats (when the vote actually matters) or when they help the Democrats defeat the GOP votes. Even one time of voting with the Democrats to defeat a major bill should equate to the “”moderate”” being pushed out of the GOP. Should, but never seems to.
“It’s always...”We can’t elect a conservative because there are too many moderates who won’t vote for him.”
Why don’t we start from the point of....”We can’t elect a moderate because there are too many conservatives who won’t vote for him.”?”
Fact is there are a fair number of people who generally align more with one party or another, but not 100% of the time. And there are a lot more of those people in swing districts that would never elect an actual conservative.
So do we hand all those seats to people who vote Democrat 75% of the time, or do we keep them Republican with people who vote GOP 75% of the time?
To me, the latter makes a lot more sense than the former.