[AuntB]

“The conservative movement grows when the GOP wins.”

The last decade proves you wrong on that. Look how the party platform has gone left in that time. Really. Look. The GOP congressional leadership had to resign for their not so socially conservative life styles. (newt, livingston) Remember? That really helped, didn’t it? And sometimes the Gop runs a Dole or McCain, and they lose. Count on it.

[LifeOrGoods?]

The party moves left because the leadership wusses out when it needs to do its job, but those leaders are not conservatives in the first place. Vote for conservatives and you will have a conservative party. Conservatives don't even show up to vote in primaries, not because some candidates are not more conservative than others, but because no candidate is ever conservative enough.

Republican victories have nothing to do with this. Once again, using your logic, the GOP should lose every election until we have a socialist in power, then somehow, everybody starts voting right wing. I remind you that GW Bush won two elections, both of which he was the more conservative candidate. In fact, I have no hesitation in pointing out that a more conservative candidate wins every time a Republican beats a Democrat. You want the party to be perfect, but you fail to see the value in the party when it is not. The Republican party is the only way to defeat liberals. You can't say you are winning when you are giving power to a more liberal candidate.