Like it or not to the RNC flacks, conservatives are the spinal cord of the party. The GOP simply do not win elections without conservative support. So why do Republicans stupidly pander to "moderates" and "centrists" at the subtle insistance of the liberal media and DemocRats? Because the Rats know that conservatives will stay home when Republicans try to become me-too liberals and the Rats get elected.
This charade has got to stop - the Rats do this all the time. Force the Republican to adopt a few liberal stances, which antagonizes conservatives so they'll stay home.
Um...
The first result is that the Republican Party is more unified than ever before. Ninety-one percent of Republicans approve of the job President Bush is doing. In 1992, Bush's father didn't have anything like that level of support, and even the Reagan administration was split between so-called pragmatists and ideologues.
Today's Republicans not only like Bush personally, they also overwhelmingly support his policies. According to a Pew Center study, 85 percent of Republicans support the war in Iraq, 82 percent believe that pre-emptive war is justified, and 72 percent believe the U.S. is justified in holding terror suspects without trial.