[Condor51]

Mike Duncan, the present incumbent, issued a statement saying: "The 2008 election was a wake-up call for Republicans to reach out and bring more people into our party

Mike, I have three words for you and they AIN'T -- Happy New Year.
(hint: 1st word is 'go')

ps: take your 'Big Tent' and go join a circus.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I suppose you believe that by driving more people away from the Republican party, you think we will win more elections?

We need conservative candidates, conservative philosophy, conservative ideas.

We need 51% of the population. We need to bring people into the party that don’t agree much with us conservatives, in order to win elections.

We shouldn’t confuse our candidates with the electorate. We don’t want squishy moderate candidates, but we need squishy moderate voters.

At least until we manage to educate over half the country about conservative principles.