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I didn't intend to paint everyone as caving after one loss, but some simply cannot stand even one loss, especially when I've talked them in to donating to a really good conservative, though we MUST put our money where our mouth is.

Liberals will always donate but are very reluctant to walk the walk. Yes, liberals will throw lavish parties and get their deep-pocketed friends to shell out big bucks but we conservatives have the numbers, if not the buckets of gold but it does take everyone donating something.

I've tried telling many that want me to guarantee a candidate will win if they donate something. That I cannot do but I can guarantee that if people don't donate, the candidate will lose.

Liberals aka RINOs can be elected but it takes people who are willing to quit listening to the media and quit believing that if a conservative takes a position away from a RINO in a Primary, the Democrat will beat the "untested newcomer!"

It's amazing just how timid some conservatives are, or worse yet, are almost as bad as liberals, who are looking to get something from government! I have found out, after participating in some phone surveys, that what conservatives want are their "conservative brand of goodies!" They are just not willing to give up goodies - period.

That's exactly why Bush (W) was so devastating, he began many more programs that Clinton did, but they were "compassionate conservative" programs!

They've come back to bite us in a big way, i.e. White House religious outreach, now they're Muslim and/or pseudo-Christian!

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I didn't intend to paint everyone as caving after one loss, but some simply cannot stand even one loss...

Sad but true.

I can guarantee that if people don't donate, the candidate will lose...

True.

That's exactly why Bush (W) was so devastating, he began many more programs that Clinton did, but they were "compassionate conservative" programs!

Oh yes. Both W and his Daddy were big government republicans.

Rubio, to be sure, is no shining conservative. Had the grassroots not been able to defeat the establishment, we'd have Senator Crist.

We've got the Roves and the ePubs out bashing conservatives.

The point of the article is that the Roves, McCains, Grahams of the world are perfectly content to attack other republicans they consider too 'extreme.' How well would McCain have done against Obama had he been half as aggressive as he showed against JD?

I've concluded we can't win with them. That's why I'm open to the idea of a third party, as long as it's the right one.