I abhor the purist 2%ers here as much as the GOPe, each of those extremes are total losers in my book. Pissant was as much a fool as McConnel. Ron Paul is as bizarre as Boehner, and the forum is filled with lots of these different kinds of 2%ers, so many with such ridiculous differences that are hard to count. Perhaps that's where we disagree and what has you so riled, but suffice it to say I don't understand what it was you think I was saying that you disagreed with.
I'm surprised that you're in mystery about where I'm coming from, Lake. You and I have tangled on this very subject multiple times.
You call yourself a Reagan conservative and Tea Partier, yet in the next breath you condemn the "purist 2%ers". Just who do you think the 'purists' are, if not the Reagan conservatives and Tea Partiers? They surely aren't in the squishy moderate middle, or the liberal GOP-e side.
If you're happy with working toward some sort of compromise between the warring factions of the Republican right, in order to 'win' elections, then perhaps you haven't yet discovered what camp you truly belong to. I would suggest that it's not with the Tea Party, who are those 'purists' you so despise.
I don't doubt that you sincerely believe in and accept Reagan conservatism, but understand that you're stumping for a moderate position here, by condemning those who will not compromise their principles to 'win' elections by voting RINO.
And just for your information, the 'purists' aren't a mere 2%. If they were, we wouldn't be having this discussion, because they wouldn't be a blip on anyone's radar.