> I just wish we, as conservatives, would stop going along with the RINO’s when served up a Dole, or a Bush, or a McCain.
Putting a “RINO” in place seems to be a response to “capture the middle ground”, which when you think about it is a bloody good Strategy.
If you take your population and spread it out on a Normal Curve (which in the US you can surely do, in each state, because you have the population to make a really decent sample size) you would have not very many far-right, and on the other extreme, you would have not very many far-left.
The far-right extreme is more palatable than the far-left, for in the far-left exist communists, nazis and anarchists.
So the trick is to pick someone that the far right will barely tolerate (there aren’t many of them, after all), that the center-right will accept and that the center-left will enjoy. No need to worry at all about the far left. Hence, a RINO candidate has some significant appeal.
A true “conservative” candidate cannot do that. His line will stop at the center-right.
Wrong.
Reagan ran as a true conservative and won twice.
The country is far more conservative than the media would have you believe.
The problem with your theory is that the normally distributed curve you mentioned has a far more conservative mean and median than the media suggest, and the “middle” is not where a RINO thinks it is.
I for one, will not sacrifice the principles that I believe in just to have a win for a “Republican” who will then push policies I don’t agree with anyway.