You write that we are alienating a vital segment of the party, perhaps so. But that segment of the party is in many cases, closer to our enemies politically, than to us. When they attempt to nominate a man so repulsive to everything we believe, there is no room for compromise.
Add that to the fact that they let us know they didn’t need us to do as they wished. Their tone was the same elitist, dismissive rhetoric used by their cousins, the Democrats.
A Republican primary is a family fight. That’s what you are observing. If these Rudy people, who tell us to select their candidate or elect Hillary Clinton, will likewise not support anyone else against her, then they are hypocrites and frauds. My best to you.
But that's not what concerns me. Rudy id not my candidate, but I'm not out there brow beating his supporters. Rudy will sink or swim on his own.
This is more than just a RNC family fight. It looks more like a fight for control, for domination.
That's just not going to happen without the total destruction of what little power base we have left. Your family members are being hurt and dismissed, and there is a cost to that.
I saw this coming back during the Meirs debate when this really began to rear it's ugliness, and it has continued non stop ever since.
When you boil it down to it's lowest common denominator, it is a social thing, and all about abortion.
Most Republicans, if not all, are not in favor of abortion, but there is wide variance on what they are willing to do about it, and where they place this issue as a political one.
That's what this is really about, and you cannot expect to force people to think a certain way. They will always resist and then they will retaliate if it continues.
None of this should have happened. It could have been prevented, but the damage is now done, and the reputation of the entire political party has been damaged in the public eye.
Getting elected to high office for anyone with a "R" will be problematic for some time to come. Many State Party's have been decimated. People often point at the war in Iraq, but the war effort was hurt when Bush was left unsupported and weak. The dem's took political advantage of that, as they should have. But the party is actually responsible.
I doubt you will see too many new politicians asking for any help from the RNC this cycle, and for some time. Why would they?