Nooooo...that is the object of some members of the Republican party. The point of the article and of Rush’s diatribes is that there are two components of both parties: the die-hard base who will not sell themselves out for a ‘win,’ and those who will do what is necessary to ‘win.’
Rush’s point, and I agree with him, is that the latter have not been ‘winning’ anything. The Republican party is no longer drifting but actively swimming to the left. Electing a RINO who is smiling from an outboard motorboat is not a ‘win’ for those of us who are conservatives first, Republicans second, though it would be a win for those who are Republicans first and conservatives second.
The country is divided in such a way that elections are decided by the fence-sitters. The cold hard fact is that the squishy center now determines who gets to sit in the Oval Office.
The choice is very simple:
A)Move toward the squishy center on some — not all — issues in an attempt to attract the squishy center.
B)Put up a “symbolic candidate” who will lose and wait until the squishy center turns significantly conservative at some point in the future.