We have to win in 2008.
There will be TWO things to do after we win.
Election Reform.
Getting rid of the RINO traitors in the infrastructure of the party and voting for conservatives in primary elections.
Conservatives in the party need to have some internal mechanism or vote to see that we don’t have 4 conservatives running against a RINO in the primaries.
Onward...
I share your frustration with Republicans who seem to have surrendered to the culture of glutenous “If I don’t get a slab for my district it’s just going somewhere else” earmark pork.
But, in reality, if you don’t have Republicans like Collins/Snowe/Specter/Pataki/Arnold/Sununnu in those states you don’t get a more conservative Pubbie - you get a more liberal Democrat.
It’s just the way it is. Specter will win in PA until he drops and Rick Santorum gets 86’d. You couldn’t run Tom Coburn in Maine.
So, I’m a bit resigned to a Party that needs members who are palatable to the populace in Maine, Minnesota and Oregon but remain exponentially preferable to the liberal Democrat who would hold the office in their absence. You have to cobble together a majority coalition somehow.
Amen to that