I don't think those who advocate getting rid of someone they consider not pure enough, do not think through their position.
Sorry, but the Big Tent approach just had its poster boy at the top of the ticket, and it was an abysmal failure. It amazes me to go through an election like we just saw, and then have these guys pop up talking about how we need to dilute our principles even MORE! Colin Powell and his ilk, who did what? Endorse Obama.
It does not work and it will NEVER work because a Big Tent GOP really doesn't stand for ANYTHING. Do you think Reagan won 49 states because all the masses agreed with his principles? NO. Democrats voted for him in droves because one of the few things the masses reliably recognize and will vote for is leadership executed with passion and conviction, no matter the underlying policy. THAT is why Reagan was so popular. He was STRONG. Big Tent Republicanism cannot possibly be strong; one cancels out the other.
MM (in TX)
Well, we apparently now know Duncan doesn’t listen to Rush’s show. Explains a great deal. Also justifies why he should be removed from consideration for this position.
I don 't know about you, but I am impatient with those Republicans who after the last election rushed into print saying, "We must broaden the base of our party" -- when what they meant was to fuzz up and blur even more the differences between ourselves and our opponents.It was a feeling that there was not a sufficient difference now between the parties that kept a majority of the voters away from the polls. When have we ever advocated a closed-door policy? Who has ever been barred from participating?
Our people look for a cause to believe in. Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people?
-- Ronald Reagan, March 1, 1975 speech to CPAC
It is amazing that, just after the best known of the RINOs brought about one of the two worst Republican defeats since the 1960s, that the RINOs loudly proclaim the need to be even more RINO-like. Now that the pandering and reaching out didn't work, they prescribe more pandering and reaching out.
Getting close to the definition of insanity: when something doesn't work, do even more of it.
I completely agree with all this. We have to defeat the RINOS at the primary level.