[JimWayne]

I started this thread to discuss positive ways we might reform a RINO rigged system into picking less RINO inclined nominees in the future.

Too bad it has deteriorated into a thread of whining about the latest RINO wing nominee and how we will punish the GOP establishment by taking our marbles and going home.

Taking our marbles and going home is the way to pick less RINO inclined candidates in future. We need to hand a defeat to Romney. Otherwise, we strengthen the hand of the RINOs.

[Vigilanteman]

Exactly what lessons did the losses of RINOs like Nixon (1960), Ford (1976), Bush (1992), Dole (1996) and McCain (2008) teach the RINO wing of the GOP?

If they had learned those lessons so well, they wouldn't keep coming back with RINO nominees. But they do because (surprise) that's what RINOs do.

Now we have probably the weakest RINO nominee of the bunch and a perfect opportunity to tell them to put up or shut up by changing the delegate allocation rules to give more weight to states which actually deliver electoral votes to the GOP nominee in the fall.

And rather than work for a fundamental change in the delegate allocation process which might actually give a future conservative nominee a fighting chance, you'd rather just pile on the latest RINO offering so you can take smug satisfaction in letting nature take the same course it did in 1960, 1976, 1992, 1996 and 2008.

How clever! How imaginative! How symptomatic of why we keep playing the same game and stay stuck in the same rut!