The liberal republican party must be destroyed, either at the primary, or in the general election.
It must be a political kiss of death to run as a liberal republican.
I don't vote for liberals. The republicans have problems running candidates that match their own party platform.
/johnny
Even Reagan, who got the nomination and was elected twice as president, was unable to reform the party. In fact, in order to even get backing from the solid elites, he had to name one of ‘theirs’ as his VP. Thus, we got George HW Bush. The party has been moving overtly leftward since Bush.