[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

This is good news or bad news, depending on how obtuse the GOP “leadership” decides to be.

It’s good news if the leadership decides to get with the program, since it unites the 23% and the 18%, and will attract a lion’s share of the 22% undecided.

It’s bad news if the leadership continues to play footsie with the Dems and try to run RINOs, against all common sense and against all political indicators. If that happens, then the Tea Parties simply split the vote and give the Dems Congress for another term.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

It’s good news if the leadership decides to get with the program, since it unites the 23% and the 18%, and will attract a lion’s share of the 22% undecided.

It’s bad news if the leadership continues to play footsie with the Dems and try to run RINOs, against all common sense and against all political indicators. If that happens, then the Tea Parties simply split the vote and give the Dems Congress for another term.

CO-SIGNED, +1,000,000,000!

[Jagdgewehr]

Exactly.

[sam_paine]

It’s bad news if the leadership continues to ...try to run RINOs, .... If that happens, then the Tea Parties simply split the vote and give the Dems Congress for another term.

If we jettison Snowe etc, we could pull together solid support for 25-30 Tea Party compliant conservative senators, and make Reid-Pelosi into a zombie Tip O'Neill-monster for the next 30 years. It wouldn't matter who wins the White House, they would control the government and won't have to worry about who sits home on election day anymore. This is what Graham and the other RINOs are probably assuming will happen. Mayhap, maybe not.

It’s good news if the leadership decides to get with the program, since it unites the 23% and the 18%, and will attract a lion’s share of the 22% undecided.

Is that really likely? The 23% are not going to participate in party functions whether Steele and the GOP RINOs are ejected or not. What percentage of the 23% actually showed up at more than one T-party rally? And the 18% of NE "non-Democrats" in the NE are continuing to embrace the gimmee-gimmee handout-bailout cut-n-run era, not individual liberty and personal responsibility.

Ronald Reagan couldn't win election for dog catcher in this post Constitutional Statist era.

[magritte]

Actually, the undecided 22% is probably deciding between Republican & Democrat (these are the moderates) and most likely will tip to the Dem side in a merging of the Tea Party and GOP.. (Tea Party = right wing = anti-moderate)...magritte