I resent that you jerk. You have not had the experiences I have had with liberal Republicans. You can talk to me like that after you've walked a precinct or donated a dollar to a Republican campaign. The following is from a post the other day, because I am sick and tired of retyping it.
As for compromising in the name of winning, I did that, to a far greater extent than 99% of the people on FR. I did it three times that I regret, perhaps more. I was a statewide volunteer co-chairman for Pete Wilson in 1990. I did it because I wanted fair reapportionment. I worked my *ss off for those people and I spent thousands of dollars of my own money on printing flyers and picking up bar tabs here and there and buying food for college kids. I made long distance phone calls from my hotel room on business trips in order to put together rallies for the little marine.
All I got from it was a Governor set out to destroy conservatives and the grassroots of the party. Pete set out to remake the party in his own image and damn near destroyed it. He ran primary candidates in every good seat we had and caused us to lose many seats in the legislature. Thos b*st*rtds went on a personal jihad against conservatives who spoke out against Pete's massive tax increase. They kept blacklists and threatened legislators and campaigns against hiring any of us.
I did it a second time. I compromised my beliefs and held my nose to elect a supposed Republican mayor of Los Angeles because at least he would hire Republican staffers and make Republican appointments. The first thing that puke did was to fire all of his Republican campaign staff. He then went out and endorsed Diane Feinstein and donated money to Maxine Waters and every other liberal Democrat he could think of. He called Bill Clinton the greatest leader in the Free World.
Then guess what? I did it again. There was a special election for a congressional seat in the Bay Area in 1996. Liberal Tom Campbell was running for an open congressional seat. We were all told, hold your noses and help out. If nothing else, he's a vote for the Republican Speaker at a time when we need every single vote we can get. So I went out and walked precincts and had liberals try to spit on me for campaigning for a Republican in liberal areas. Campbell squeaked it out. And after the 1996 election in the closest race for Speaker in history that SOB voted against the Republican Speaker who barely won by 6 votes.
Sorry that's not why I'm in this business. Liberal Republicans can all go to hell as far as I'm concerned. I've compromised in the name of winning way too many times. You guys will all learn. Arnold has it written all over him. I've seen it too many times before. Don't explain to me the need to compromise to advance the Republican Party I've been there. It's the reason we are in such a mess today.