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I wish the leftists here would all go to the Democrat party and at least raise the tone of the economic thinking over there a bit. But yall seem determined to convert the Republican party into a clone of the Democrats.

I don't know who "y'all" is, nor do I know any leftists here. If you mean the effort to keep the Republican Party out of the hands of the social right, those are not leftists. Those are conservatives. Try and learn the difference.

Republicans lose elections and power that way.

Yes, sort of like we lost in 2006, because the independents said to hell with it and voted in the Democrats, since the Republicans could accomplish nothing but pandering to the social right.

That is where we got 40 years of also-ran status in the Congress. Social liberals are not trustworthy on ANY subject because they have no moral base, no philosophical reason for anything.

You might just give yourself a quick course in conservatism. The conservatives have a substantial philosophy that has been developed for over 200 years. And it does not include a host of quotations from the Bible, but strong, reliable principles that actually most of the Country supports. As for your moral base, you need to understand that personal morals are just that, personal. That comes under the jurisdiction of the people, who are responsible for the development of our culture. It is not the responsibility of government.

The social right has caused much damage to our Party, but with the current leadership recognizing its dangers, I feel confident that the Party will survive, grow, and prosper. It will do so by embracing all of America, not just the Christian Coalition or its successor groups. It will do so by addressing the real issues facing this Nation that most of America recognizes, even if the RR doesn't.

And if the social right can no longer tolerate conservatism, and decides to move on, I say, "Don't let the screen door hit you in the a$$"

Those who would banish Christians from the party are, by the very definition of the word NOT conservatives. The polity was founded on religiously derived values from several Christian sources and explicitly recognized the derivation of rights and authority from a Creator. This is the system an American conservative would be primarily conserving. Real freemarket capitalism is not explicitly conservative though socialism is very much not conservative. Most of our history has been full of protectionism and trustbusting and interference in the market though there has been a general assumption that people are free to do business with each other. Pat Buchanan is a Conservative, though not a freemarket believer and has made some strange alliances. I truly would rather see the freemarket nonconservatives who are actively striving to drive actual conservatives out of the Republican party to give some very valuable freemarket leaven to the Democrat party which is the explicitly anti-conservative(Christian and Constitutionalist)party but is not wholly captuređ by the ecomnomic socialists. If you manage to definitively take over the Republican party and ignore or force out the Christians, you will have a small regional party and the future is Demo-Socialist as far as the eye can see.