[oldbrowser]

"There's absolutely no contender that is a bona fide conservative," said K.B. Forbes, who has worked for a number of conservative candidates and causes since the 1990s. "We have insiders, squishes and moderates running for president."

The times is trying to partition us into harmless boxes. By separating "moderates" from "conservatives" from "insiders" from "squishes"(whatever that is) they employ a "divide and conquer" strategy that worked so well in 2006.

They had us running around calling each other "RINO", and now we are on the outside looking in during a crucial time .

In order to govern you have to have a majority, and if you have a majority you need the whole right side of the spectrum from moderate to conservative.

[Leonine]

Conservatism works and conservatism wins BIG. Reagan proved that against a monolithic media. Moderatism does not work and moderatism loses. W proved that, even though he had support from Fox, talk, &c.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

You are absolutely correct. The Democrats did this in '06 and it worked. They laid all their extreme differences aside and collectively voted as a whole.

They appealed to the moderates & independents most and kept their extreme Leftist rhetoric out of it. This is what worries me the most.

THEY HAVE IT FUGURED OUT! And, any party that fails to learn this will lose.

[David Isaac]

You are correct in saying the media has done a fine job of dividing conservatives, especially religious and agnostic. But the definition o fmoderate is a bit iffy. Moderately conservative is one thing, but the media calls those "conservatives" who cave into the left, moderates. I do not accept that definition.