[Mudboy Slim]

"The primary is yet to be held. You can do a lot better than clueless and spineless Giddy."

At least you've got a choice in Carolina Primary...in VA, all we've got is the "clueless and spineless" RINO Jawn Warner. If you've got a Conservative to beat Dole, go for it!!

FReegards...MUD

[GraniteStateConservative]

They don't have anyone to defeat Dole, and other than Dole, they have no one to defeat Bowles. The NC GOP is like the GA GOP-- in the hinterlands of political influence.

[BlackElk]

Exactly. Warner is another character who believes that his wealth entitles him to a Senate seat when he is not busy hunting foxes or becoming Mr. Liz Taylor #9 or whatever. He had the colossal gall to get Marshall Coleman into the Oliver North/Charles Robb Senate race to prevent a Republican victory. He is every bit as much a traitor to Republicanism as Judas Jeffords ever was.

The GOP caucus is continually being corrupted by the basic RINO tactic of substituting personal wealth for policy. In Connecticut, it took three terms to get rid of Weicker only to have him come back as an Independent to impose an income tax on state residents. There are places like Maine where it may actually be necessary to nominate RINOs to hold Senate seats. North Carolina is not one of them.

If there is one worthwhile top priority within the party it is ridding the party of these clueless SOBs who are qyalified only by their trust funds to seek office. Build a grass-roots organization of issue activists. Launch an unrelenting attack on ideological enemies within and without and resist to the last drop of blood the further softening of the GOP spine.