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That is a tough term to define. There’s no GOP manifesto that says it has to be conservative. Indeed, before Ronald Reagan, most of the GOP’s big shots were mushy moderates; Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Howard Baker, Gerald Ford Bob Michel, Bob Dole all come to mind. The conservative movement MUST not hitch itself to a particular party. And, yes, I think the GOP may be moribund; in fact, it might be in the same shape the dinosaurs were at the end of the Cretaceous, right after the meteor hit.

They were living in a very liberal era. Some of them, like Rockefeller, were quite liberal. The others were doing what they could to counter the Democrats.

More recently the GOP had a much higher percentage of "conservatives" in Washington and ignored most of what conservatives had been talking about for years.

Get rid of the RINOs or the whole GOP and in a few years things will be pretty much as they were. Voters more or less get what they want.

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—Get rid of the RINOs or the whole GOP and in a few years things will be pretty much as they were. Voters more or less get what they want.—

Get rid of what you call the “RINOS”, and the GOP will be holding its 2012 convention in the back room of a Denny’s.
On second thought, make it a Waffle House, since only people from the southeastern US would be in attendance!