No he is not in the bounds of the republican party, that is why after 17 years of campaigning and spending fortunes, including at least 60 million dollars of his own, the man still can not gain real traction among the GOP.
Why are you rino types always attacking freerepublic as being fringe people when we don't support your rino candidates, I guess the enemies of conservatism share a world view and a common enemy list.
By the way, when you make that kind of claim which is a basic part of your politics, you prove that you are here to move this site a little to the left.
Good post. The last thing the GOP needs is to embrace liberal candidates like Romney and Giuliani.
Charles is the worst of all. A political centrist. He sell his principles, if he had any.
You keep making the same mistake. FreeRepublic isn’t a Republican site. It’s a conservative site. Nobody can dictate what candidates are supported by a site; if someone wants to run a site where only sufficiently conservative candidate is acceptable, that’s a good thing.
Using Romney as an example, he gained enough traction in the party to be in the running for President. He won the republican nomination for Senator. He won election as a Republican Governor.
The fear among conservatives here is that he is gaining TOO much traction amongst republicans — and they fight to prevent it.
It scares me that you think that conservatives are “the fringe people”. We aren’t a majority, but we aren’t fringers. But I think that’s because of your confusion between “Republican party” and “conservative”.