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Part of being a majority party is that there will be bitter debates within the party. In order to build a majority, you simply can't afford to write off a region of the country. Thus, we must endure the Northeast Rino's and their "moderate" views. As a Conservative, I am annoyed to all hell by Chaffe, Collins, Specter and the gang, but they are, unfortunately, necessary evils to maintaining a majority. Still, it doesn't mean we just bow down to them. Quite the contrary, we debate them and let them know when we disagree with their positions be they Republican or not.

Before anyone jumps down my throat, I understand the views of many on freerepublic that it would be better to be a conservative minority than a Rino majority. That is a legitimate view, but I disagree. When you consider what the democrats TRUE plan for this country is, I will take a fractious Republican majority. (Their plan? Tax your 401(k) and contributions, eliminate taxes on their constituency, i.e. social security, legalized voter fraud, reinstatement of the fairness doctrine to censure all opposition speech, socialized medicine, and, quite simply the illegalization of anyone who disagrees with them.)

The only thing keeping the democrats from power is that they would rather be a monolithic minority than a majority. They have kicked out or isolated anyone who is in the center or to the right of center (Lieberman). As a result, they have almost completely written off the South. In order to win elections, the democrats can't depend on putting forth any kind of tenable plan or policy (by tenable, I mean one that anyone would vote for) because nobody in their party supports a tenable plan. They are Euro-Socialists as stated above. As a result, the only way they can win elections is by hoping and praying the voters will simply vote against the Republicans as opposed to voting for the democrats.

All in all, I would rather be in the Republican's shoes. I won't accept Specter and Collins and McCain's views, but I won't sacrifice a majority on the altar of a tantrum either.