SHOULD CONSERVATIVES FUMIGATE THE BIG TENT TO REMOVE LIBERALS?
You do what works where you live and what people there think is right and let other people do the same where they live. Some districts won’t elect someone you’d recognize as conservative. Would they be better off with a Democrat, who, by your own view, would likely be more liberal than any Republican would be? Almost all of the old Rockefeller Republicans — the East Coast liberals — are gone. Except for those two women from Maine, there doesn’t seem to be very much of a liberal (or what the press would call a “moderate”) wing of the party left in Congress. Rather than the old liberal (“moderate”) bloc, you have Senators and Governors who are a little more corporate, a little more country club than the rest of us. They may be a problem, but they’re not the main reason Republicans are in such bad shape right now. For example, every Republican in the House voted against Stimulus-Porkulus. To me that’s a sign that this RINO thing is getting to be a red herring. People love to talk about
