Your points are spot on! I think hay can be made more easily with Ben Nelson than Joe Lieberman, for sure. I'd make the play to Joe if for no other reason than the shock value to the Rat party. Think about it - their former VP candidate switching parties or at least caucusing with the GOP. IMO, the Rats need to be destroyed, by any and every means necessary.
I will disagree with you on the “big tent” theory. I don't believe you can elect the same candidate in Wyoming or South Carolina that you can in Connecticut or New Jersey. Most likely the candidate will be more conservative in WY or SC. I have posted that as a whole, let some of the Congresspeople vote against the party if they need to - but on non-essential items like “National Ice Cream” or “5th Undersecretary of the US Forestry Service”. When it comes to the real stuff, like national defense, immigration, taxes, etc. they best damn understand THEY WILL TOW THE PARTY LINE OR ELSE.
I will give Obama credit for his Mafia-style way of dealing with his party. Party discipline is something the Rats have over the GOP, especially with the RINO’s running amok.
Again, I'm not proposing more RINO’s, I'm proposing party discipline. With that, the GOP will be successful.
I agree we can’t elect the same candidate in ME that we elect in WY, but they can have enough core conservative principles to have a meeting of the minds when it really counts.
Before I would agree with you that the party leadership should lay down the law and effect some discipline, I’d like for them to first prove themselves by running some vertebrates as candidates for a change. Until they do that consistently, the less power they have, the better off we are.
Trust the leadership? NY23 still chafes. Scuzzy was the LEADERSHIP’s candidate, passing over Hoffman. The rat who won by blatantly lying to the dumbass electorate was one of the two votes that put Pelosi’s deathcare over the top. The “leadership” increased Pelosi’s chances of getting that vote from 1:1 to 2:0 by running Scuzzy instead of Hoffman. Even Hoffman throwing his hat in as thrid-party only lowered Pelosi’s chance to 2:1. We saw what happened.
Leadership, my ass.