Yes, Comrade Stalin Barnacle! We must purge the ideologically impure and the deviationists! All power to Comrade Stalin Barnacle!
You've slow-rolled the GOP one time too many, boy. The "RINOs" are the base, because they actually bother to vote. You're just a high-maintenance special-interest group that probably isn't worth the pricetag of regular servicing. Anything that you get is a freebie--by your own choice.
It looks like I'm dealing with a real political groupie here.
This is my take on you, Tigger, Eore and Piglet - "Forget principle. Say anything. Do anything. Morph into whatever it takes. Just so that our team wins."
There must be a line beyond which you would not “follow the leader”. Isn’t there? Tell me what it is.
For me and for many Conservatives, the GOP has crossed a line on many crucial issues and is wandering further beyond the point which we are willing to follow. We call to them, write to them, email and FAX them. We implore them to return to our core beliefs. But, all too often we helplessly watch them wander ever further to the left. It's the kind of frustration a parent must feel when a teenager goes off the deep-end.
Go ahead with them if you please. I'll stay right here and hold the fort. Hopefully, when the party arrives to camp beside the Democrats and as they merge into indistinguishable entities, there will be a few who will return home.