Gee, with all the talk of purging the ideologically impure, I swear Stalin has come back as a "conservative" and is posting here under multiple names.
Could someone explain to me how "purging the RINOs" increases the odds of winning elections?
You suffer under the delusion that most registered republican voters are as liberal as the RINOs that control the GOP. They aren't—not by a long shot. And we do know that the RINOs at the RNC have made a concerted effort to purge the party of conservative candidates by consistently backing the most liberal candidates in election after election.
IMO, the way Bush and the GOP have been alienating conservatives in the last 2 years, the GOP might get a rude awakening this November. BTW, I never remember Reagan alienating any part of the republican base...liberal or conservative. Like his dad, GWB seems to have learned nothing from the success of Ronald Reagan.