Republicans need closed primaries. With regard to Hayworth’s credentials, as a Conservative, it certainly hurt him with the Democrats.
As for the charge of RINO, it must be backed up with information. I tried to back up my RINO charges with a list of things John had done that would make it literally impossible for an actual Republican of just about ANY stripe to vote for him. And yet, some did. (not that they read my list anyway)
We don’t call guy’s like McCain on the carpet for what they have done. The RNC is a waste of our time. It allows anyone with an (R) after their name to claim that they are a solid Republican. Why?
It’s because the RP leadership has drifted so far off the mark, that they don’t even see McCain for what he is.
McCain ran as a solid Republican. The Republican leadership, Sarah Palin, Congressmen, and other public officials threw their full support behind him.
Thus, anyone coming up with information is a malcontent. McCain is the good guy, and his detractors are the only real problem.
It’s difficult to address this without using terms like conspiracy, collusion, fraud...
The Democrats own the Republican party lock stock and barrel.
I believe (and, admittedly, I live in NH) that there are a lot more Republicans than you think, of many stripes, who would study your data and vote for him anyway.
I still claim, until a statewide election somewhere proves me wrong, that trucons can beat any Republican in a statewide election by not voting, but that they can't win anywhere on their own.
What has happened is that trucons won't vote for RINOs anymore, but communists always vote for DINOs, and the results are plain to see.
People talk about taking back the GOP, as if they ever had it - and they never did.
Eventually, we are going to crash, probably hard, and a conservative government will come to power (to quote Minister Malcom, "by any means necessary").
But universal franchise voting and the GOP are not going to git 'er done, in my view.
In the meantime, electing a GOP majority (including McCain) will, in my view, mitigate our damages, however slightly, so that's what I think we should do.
YMMV, of course.
Glenn Beck and Rush Limbuagh might have not done enough to go after Mccain. If I were them I would be attacking McCain day in and Day out. Just to send people the message. TO all you Mark Levin fans, the time he sent attacking Glenn Beck s=could have been used to going after McCain. I don’t care to call Levin out, but what he said after Beck’s CPAC speech is part of the problem with the Republican party. If Levin is willing to go after anyone saying the truth then he should have NO PROBLEM with MCCAIN.