[DiogenesLaertius]

Lets not destroy the party with infighting. The leadership must not be RINO, but we need RINO’s in our tent. The democrats started winning in 2006 because they started being practical and running socially conservative candidates in red states and red districts.

We’ve been bleeding voters for the last 4 years. Its a terrible idea to alienate our candidates on the margin.

[Taichi]

It’s not infighting it’s a PURGE. We don’t need RINO’s we need solid conservatives. The tent ain’t that big.

[Soul Seeker]

No we don’t.

Like you said.

The Democrat’s started running more conservative candidates and they won. We take back those conservatice districts and we’re in the majority without needing RINO’s to get us there.

The only people that have been alienated by this party the last four years have been conservatives.

[norton]

"Lets not destroy the party with infighting."
"We’ve been bleeding voters for the last 4 years."
"Its a terrible idea to alienate our candidates on the margin."

The republican party destroyed itself, or has put itself on the verge, by not allowing infighting.
Or outfighting, or any controversy at all; just note the way that conservative/alternate ideas were treated by the party during the 2008 pre-election tent show.
You won't get any new or rediscovered ideas by nodding heads and sending out requests for more funding.

If we bled voters for four years it only means we had the edge in 2002 and screwed it up.
The same screw ups are in charge of the party today as yesterday,
a little infighting seems very much in order.

"Alienate our candidates on the margin"?
McCain, Arnold and their ilk have alienated the ten or so percent who didn't bother to vote.
They alienated those of us who did vote (again) without being given a choice.
Their only friends are on the other side of the aisle and you can bet that they'll fall in line now that there is no "R" in the White House.

On the other hand, they are probably still stunned at the fact that a back woods state governor stole their fire and made it a close race.
As long as they are already stunned, why not hope for others to step in and rewire the damn thing?

[ilgipper]

The question is how the Dems are pulling in seat with moderates but keeping them ‘on the reservation’. Our moderates constantly screw the party. Their moderates are staying quiet and playing along.

[Issaquahking]

The leadership must not be RINO, but we need RINO’s in our tent.

We’ve been bleeding voters for the last 4 years. Its a terrible idea to alienate our candidates on the margin.

The very reason we lost was because of RINO's in the leadership, and in the masses! We lost by 8 million votes.

Had the Ticket been Palin/Jindal, or Palin/Hunter, or even Palin/ any conservative, we could have easily won. Sarah knows how to listen, evaluate, and lead, the American people. That is something McCain just didn't do. "My friends, my friends"(concensus taker) VS "I hear you loud and clear, and am acting on it now!"(leader). Guess which works?

If you don't think McCain isn't RINO, let me know when he is going to apologize to her, for the way she was treated on the trail, and post election? She was the ONLY reason that he got the votes that he did! That's because she is a RINO slayer.