[little jeremiah]

Times have changed since Reagan. There is a much deeper gulf between liberal and conseravative. More people are waking up.

The idea that a Repub Pres candidate has to have a moderate VP is not engraved in stone. Moderates do NOT win elections. They LOSE elections.

NO MODERATES! NONE! GET RID OF THEM! THEY ARE THE PROBLEM!

A moderate means someone who is not conservative, who is wishy washy, who has no spine, no guts, no gonads, who cares about what leftists, the MSM and the Dems think, is willing to compromise, back stab and surrender.

NO MODERATES!

Moderate Repubs are the very reason we are in such a sorry state right now.

No way is it a “political necessity”.

I call it “political suicide”!

[Lakeshark]

I agree with your sentiments, but to think as conservatives we have a mandate when libs dominate all our institutions is sheer folly. We are far more left leaning today as a country than when Reagan came on the scene, like it or not. You and I may not be, but we are in a minority.

Right now we are going to take back the house and possibly the senate more on revulsion against the Obamacrats than on conservative principles and that is unfortunate.

To think we can win the electorate we have today, and then in 2012 with an all conservative ticket isn't grounded in reality.

Our best hope is to at least get the top of the ticket to be conservative, and not a McCain or Dole (or Romney!!!) type. We'll have to deal with the political landscape if and when that happens. Right now we are needing to focus on November and neutering these creeps called democrats. Come 2012, if we are fortunate enough to get a solid conservative at the top, rather than a Romney, he or she will choose how to win, much like Reagan did in 1980. He chose to use a moderate to get elected, I doubt that will change if we get a conservative nominated.

We shall see how it plays out, yes?