No, I never mentioned "moderates" in my post. I refer only to those who think that having an (R) by someone's name is enough and that what the candidate actually stands for does not matter (as evidenced by their responses to factual posts about issues). I prefer to look at things on a factual basis, not a partisan basis.
...why continue to fight for a principle within a party some see as already "sold out"?
I feel like I am getting the New Majority spin here, trying to purge the conservatives and hijack the Republican party.
...if indeed it is a shared view that the GOP is sold out to Socialism...
Many have sold out to corruption. I'm not sure about the Socialism, except for those socialist programs which feed their pockets.
why not promote at same time your own newer party...
Why not just expose and purge the infiltrators who promote a platform largely in conflict with that of the GOP? A much more direct and honest approach, IMO.
I prefer to think that the 'New Majority infiltrators' could use re-education in how and why their policies won't work for anybody (and help them get totally frustrated with their beliefs in the process).
As you may know (depending upon how far in the book you've read :-), my preference is to educate them that, although it is true that a healthier planet is more capable of producing wealth, the way they are going about it will produce neither. Most extremely wealthy people from what I have seen, lack imagination and are inordinately risk averse. In choosing to purchase the influence that delivers a predictable short term return, they induce economic forces that will assure a smaller pie, as well as inevitable catastrophic risks.
The other message is that there are better ways to make money via honest means of measuring and pricing risk to the use of intangible assets. We are standing in a sea of intangible wealth, fighting only over the infinitesimal and tangible. There are innovative means or rendering what has long been considered "natural" patentable that fund better care for the systems that support them but only via absolute respect for private property an individual liberty, to both of which thier current fantasies are an anathema.
True.