The GOP needs to open to Conservatives.
What, conservatives? The ones with (as Juan McCain described it) “wacko-bird” tendencies . . . ?
Unfortunately it doesn’t.
The way the GOPe leadership looks at this is that Conservatives have nowhere to go. Even if we choose not to vote, we won’t vote for a credible opponent to the Republicans (i.e. a Democrat). So, if they lose one Conservative vote to gain one “Moderate” vote, they see that as a net gain of one vote - the Moderate counts as two votes because the Democrats have lost his vote and the ‘Pubbies gained it.
And so the Republican Party is driven inevitably leftward.
“The GOP needs to open to Conservatives.”
AMEN!
GOP needs to be open to the RULE OF LAW too!