[Tamzee]

And for what? Because the GOP leadership may throw a conservative a bone on occasion? A lean bone too.

The fastest way to make the GOP ignore the most ideological conservatives is for those voters to be completely unreliable. The GOP will pander to the center even more, leaving you voiceless in your fringe party and suffering even more extreme movement of our country to the left.

Many people in this thread have tried to discuss this problem with you but you're determined to take a road that splits the coalition of right-leaning voters just so you can travel your own powerless path. So be it. I hope our Constitution Party friends will have the maturity to not complain when they become unhappy with President Dean's actions.

[Luis Gonzalez]

These guys think that 96% of the party should be governed by the political ideology of 4% of the party, and their attitude is that if the Party refuses to acquiesce to their demands, they will do whatever is needed to help the Democrats win elections as a "punishment" to the GOP.

Then they wonder why the Party could care less about them, and is looking to replace them by bringing new voters from the center of the political spectrum into the fold.

This tactic of leaving the GOP in order to force the GOP to change, is basically committing political suicide by achieving irrelevance.

[looscnnn]

So what are you saying that there would be more conservatives that leave than the people at the center that they are leaning towards? If that is the case, should they not pay heed to the conservatives so they won't leave?