[Jim Robinson]

Well, I'd say we continue trying to replace the Rinos through the primaries. Keep bringing up the best and the brightest from the farm teams. I'm hoping someday FR, FRN and an FR PAC can help in this situation. We need to recruit, train, support and hit the streets for the most conservative and electable challengers we can muster. We've got to continue building our memberships and strengthening our alliances with other conservative groups like the NFRA, ACU, RLC, NRA, etc. There's no other way to do it at this time. We must continue building the majority and making our best efforts at making the congress more conservative as we go.

[ModernDayCato]

I believe that this strategy is quite dangerous (as it strengthens the RINO contingent of the party), but I've come to the same conclusion that you already have: there is no other alternative. There is an average of 2% chance of unseating an incumbent. We're helping to elect RINOs to positions where they're going to stay and amass power. I'll give you the prime example:

I live in Fairfield County, CT, deep in RINO country. There is a palpable disgust here for RINO of the century Christopher Shays. The county is full of middle level management types who don't like to take any chances. I have met lots of Freepers, but it would be an uphill battle to run.

The best we can come up with is that one of us should run and draw fire as a right wing extremist (talk about type casting) which would probably get us the primary but lose us the election to the democrat. Then we pick off the Rat next time.

Aside from the fact that that would require unseating incumbents in two successive elections (which would be unbelievably difficult) that seems to go against the Robinson doctrine. That's how hard it's going to be to pick of the RINOs here in New England, and probably elsewhere.

I would love to see FRN come up with a list of candidates that could do the heavy lifting (and it's gonna suck), with the help of FR PAC and other local PACs (there are several here in CT, along with the Club for Growth, which is very active here) offering some backing.