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To: untrained skeptic
Threatening to leave or leaving the party has little to no effect on the RINO party leadership.

But, allowing RINOs to be voted out of office does.

The only solution to the problem is conservatives to weed out the RINOs and elect true believers in conservatism.

50 posted on 08/07/2007 7:02:02 AM PDT by Ol' Sparky
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To: Ol' Sparky
But, allowing RINOs to be voted out of office does.

It may, it may not. Incumbents are usually hard to get out of office, and once you put a liberal in office they have many ways to consolidate their power, and they won't take responsibility for their own failings, they will of course blame it on the RINO they replaced for a while and then others when that no longer works.

If the conservatives in the Republican Party let RINOs lose, the party leadership doesn't usually change it's approach, it starts saying that in order to beat the Democrat that now holds the office they need to run a "moderate" Republican that can appeal to more swing voters and pull them away from the incumbent Democrat.

Here in Ohio, the RINOs are in control of the party leadership. They have the votes within the party to set the party's agenda and to use the party's power to support other RINOs.

Those RINOs aren't going to relinquish that leadership just because they might lose a few of their members. Those in control are likely secure in their positions and would rather rule the minority party than be an outsider in the majority party.

To uproot them from the party leadership, you need to either allow so many RINOs to lose that you give the liberals tremendous power over your government for a very long time, or you need to vote them out in the primaries.

You want to scare RINOs. Tell them you vote in every primary election and you vote for party committee member positions as well.

77 posted on 08/07/2007 9:25:57 AM PDT by untrained skeptic
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