[flashbunny]

It looks like they’re avoiding the blowout threads where defending rudy is impossible and deciding behind closed (forum) doors which threads to fight on.

Even though they’re concentrating their effort on fewer threads, they’re still losing those.

[wagglebee]

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.
-- Ronald Reagan, March 1, 1975