It is quite obvious that the GOP party is out of touch with it's own base on the plank for smaller government when our nominee for president ends up being John McCain. John McCain should not have been in the top ten let alone the actual nominee.
I don't believe we, the base, nor the GOP picked McCain as our candidate. I fully believe that little maneuver was orchestrated and carried out by the dems. They crossed over specifically to vote in our primaries and chose our candidate for us.
This is not to say our GOP leaders are not out of touch with what we want but they did hold strong yesterday and, for the first time in a very long time, presented a united front and represented us well.
I pray that this will be a turning point for our party.
Regardless we have a problem that John McCain got to be the nominee and he should have been taken out in the first debates of the primaries. If there was that much crossover then we have no chance at ever getting a good candidate elected. We have got to close the primaries if there is that much cross over going on. Not saying there was not any cross over I know there was a good bit. But he should not have be able to advance as much as he did because his own record and McCain/Feingold bill plus his relationship with Tides Foundation should have been enough to keep him out of the running. Our leadership failed us and we failed to make sure our party and party leaders were adhering to the fundamental principles of conservatism.