[Jefferson Adams]

(re: the Republican Party) We don't have to leave it. It seems more to have left us.

..If you can't win a Republican primary with ideas and principles derived from the Constitution, then you will never be able to win a general election based on these same principles.

Sir, my compliments. That pretty much says it. Unfortunately.

[BluesDuke]

You honour me, but I should have italicised, to indicate the line to which I was replying, this portion: .If you can't win a Republican primary with ideas and principles derived from the Constitution, then you will never be able to win a general election based on these same principles.. That was my scripting error. The first line you quoted ("We don't have to leave it. It seems to have left us.") was mine.