Those arguments no longer hold water in this day and age where we have a split GOP party.
We now not only have to fight the dems, we also have dems masquerading as Repubs.
I know I don't need to remind you this is a conservative forum so Im used to being told to stifle it for the party.
The question I would ask is,, stifle it for what party?
It is fairly simple. The goal is to move the country to the right. To do that, you start by defeating those farthest to the left. Defeating those closer to the right, you tip the balance farther to the left.
Accept the fact that you and I are way more conservative than most Americans. We will never see the country moved as far to the right as we would like. So the fight is to move the middle a little towards the right. It is a battle that will go on the rest of our lives. We won't win...if winning means we get everything we would like. But the left cannot win as long as we fight effectively.