“Ayres argues that to expand beyond its traditional base, the GOP needs to, among, other things, eschew ideological rigidity
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Isn’t that what the GOPe did with McCain and Romney as candidates? Look what their limp, bend with the wind, can’t we all just get along, noodlicity got us, 8 years of Odumbo!
The same was said of Reagan, that he was a rigid ideologue. IMHO, we need a sharp contrast with the Left to have any chance of winning and with a mandate to save the country...