Well, then don't vote for them.
Call Nancy and Harry, they'll listen, I'm sure.
You all need to learn the art of doing THE POSSIBLE.
If you push the Conservatives out of the Republican party, You can call them yourselves. You'll be responsible for their rise to power. Liberal Republicans cannot win an election alone.
Thank you for putting matters into the clearest possible terms.
In 1964 the nation chose Lyndon Baines Johnson and a constrained "war" in Vietnam designed to waste blood and treasure and to ultimately lose, politically; as well as LBJ's "War On Poverty" which would scatter six trillion to the idle and fail to bring anyone higher.
And when LBJ beat Barry Goldwater in a Vesuvian lava flow I complained to my U.S. History teacher whereupon Mr. Holmes advised me that politics is the art of the possible and history never goes back.
As Marcus Aurelius might advise when the barbarians were chatting over cocktails with Hillary and Obama, "concern yourself with that which is within your power."
We do not need anyone on a white charger and certainly no one whose moral aura is as blinding as that of Kim Jong Il on his birthday day before yesterday.
As we worked feverishly on a campaign to beat one of the liberal pantheon a few years back, in came John Dendahl the man who just unsuccessfully challenged Bill Richardson (and had his communications director beaten savagely with a tire iron for his effort) who raised his fist cheerfully exhorting us, "Win!"
There is nothing without victory; the first duty of the politician is to win.
Victory is our candidate.
At the blackest hour of the London Blitz or the Battle of the Bulge the main concern was not philosophical purity but victory.
Somehow a bunch of fools stayed home because Mark Foley sent graphic text messages to a precocious teen--a bunch of fools who forgot that now Carl Levin gets to make sure there's no missile defense installation in Poland and Japan when Kim Jong Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad decide to act out knowing their puppetmaster/protectors in Moscow and Beijing have got their backs.
The fools who forgot that now the taxes go up and the economy goes down, the military is starved and the tyranny of the courts grows like jungle canopy.
No, not purity, VICTORY.