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To: Ol' Sparky
They will relinquish leadership if voted out of office.

Of course they will, but then you turn over their office to an even more liberal Democrat for at least 4 or 6 years.

They will also relinquish power if they lose the primary to a more conservative Republican candidate, and if that Republican wins you don't suffer under the liberal Democrat being in office.

If you can't beat the RINO incumbent in the primary, your chances of getting a conservative candidate to win the following primary when the RINOs who control party influence and money are working against them isn't that great either.

While there are exceptions, politicians especially big government advocates such as RINOs and Democrats will fight to build and maintain their own power over building and maintaining the party's power.

Having a RINO lose to a Democrat in the general election may shake things up a bit, but that doesn't mean that the next Republican candidate won't also be a RINO. If you want a conservative Republican in the general election, then they have to win the primary.

If you don't vote in the primaries you also aren't going to change the party leadership. I don't know how it works in your state, but precinct representatives are who chooses the party leadership here, and they are elected in the primaries. Most run unopposed, and few people even know who they are. I doubt most people know how their own political party works and how those in control attain and maintain their power.

Republicans largely advanced a liberal, big-government agenda for the six years they were in charge of Congress. Any real change was thwarted by RINOs, many in the most conservative of states.

Absolutely true. So what are you going to do about it? Voting out some RINOs might scare some other RINOs into active a bit more conservative for a little while, but putting Democrats in office isn't going to make things better. Instead it will make things worse in the short run with the hopes that things might change for the better 4 or 6 years down the line. However, even then the battle is won or lost in the primary elections.

If you think you are making things better by voting against RINOs or staying home in the general election while you don't bother voting in the primaries, you are delusional and counterproductive.

94 posted on 08/07/2007 11:59:57 AM PDT by untrained skeptic
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To: untrained skeptic
Of course they will, but then you turn over their office to an even more liberal Democrat for at least 4 or 6 years.

Two to six year...But, so what? The Republicans were in the minority and stood on conservative principles in the early 1990s and ended up sweeping into power.

If RINOs are swept out and liberals assume power, it will set the stage for a true conservative revolution.

95 posted on 08/07/2007 12:17:12 PM PDT by Ol' Sparky
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