CONSERVATIVES don't win elections...
MAJORITIES do..
Whether you like it or not, the key to victory is NOT pandering to the conservatives, it's persuading the MIDDLE that you are more sane than the whackos on the left......
In that "Middle" are millions and millions of Hispanics, legal and illegal, who COULD be COnservative Voters, if we'd only let them.....
Instead, we holler, scream and berate each other, while Dems and Unions sign up illegal voters by the hundreds of thousands.
Now which way do you think that middle vote is going to swing???
Here's the thing: most of us on this forum ARE conservatives; we're just not "conservative enough" for some of the Patsies and JBSers.
The extreme right wing of this party is in a full tilt hissy fit because they are losing what they consider to be their hold over the party, as the GOP reflects the people who join (which, of course, the purist HATE).
The people who blackmail the GOP year after year with their vote cannot win without us "mushy moderates," as they like to refer to us.
They LOVE to say the GOP cannot win without them, but it is they who cannot win with the GOP.