[deport]

and the majority of the Party's base across the country are not.

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I don't want to get into an argument about this but a question..

Why is it that the base is always a certain select group or few.... The Republican Party is made up of many different factions representing groups from the far right side of the spectrum to the far left side I'd guess. So to select any one group and call them the base is not correct imo. They are a portion of the party and represent a portion of the base of the party but they aren't the entire base by any strecth, imo.

[EternalVigilance]

Leadership of the GOP, including delegates to the national convention, are chosen democratically.

Do you have a clue what the makeup of that delegation is?

I can tell you without any doubt that they are overwhelmingly pro-life, pro-gun and deadset against the homosexual agenda, etc.

What you describe is not some small faction in the Party. Those who want to forward those items need to go to the Democrats where they belong, and not attempt to saddle us with a tyranny of the minority.

[ZULU]

"Why is it that the base is always a certain select group or few.... The Republican Party is made up of many different factions representing groups from the far right side of the spectrum to the far left side I'd guess."

Look, the Liberals HAVE a party - its called the Democratic Party and they control utterly. The conservatives DESERVE a PArty of their own and that party has been and remains the Republican Party. We have all seen the damage that leftist Republicans like McCain and Jeffords and Olympia Snow and Lincoln Chafee and Chrissie Whitman and Tom Kean and Nelson Rockefeller and Jacob Javits, etc, etc, can do.

Big tent = a crock of bull.