Time for Steve Schmidt to leave the GOP. He is a RINO and has always been a RINO.
He can always go back to work for the other DEM Arnold S.
Here's the problem with asking these "RINOS" (or anyone labled a RINO because the take a position on a particular issue that may be divergent from conservative orthodoxy), soon you will be left with an incredibly small and thunderously irrelevant party.
Conservative, but "social conservatives" in particular, make up less than 30% of the population. I'm not a political scientist, but I'm fairly confident that 30% won't win a single local, state or federal election in this country. How does shrinking a party, alienating moderates, the educated and entire swaths of the country further or strengthen the conservative cause?
The 2010 elections are just around the corner. Already, we've seen a Republican lose an open election to a rank-in-file Democrat opponent who ran almost exclusively on Obama's short record and the huge stimulus. NY-20 has a built in 70K vote margin for the GOP, yet Tedisco lost. That should give every Republican and conservative great cause for concern.
The GOP already faces a very tough landscape in the Senate for 2010. The House elections are starting to look less favorable everyday. We will see if the great culling of the RINO heard, as prescribed by many here, will pay dividends in 2010, or will mark the complete irrelevance of the GOP and the conservative movement.