[beandog]

Exactly. I don’t know why people insist on confusing the two.

[Dr. Sivana]

Exactly. I don’t know why people insist on confusing the two.

I believe that the idea is that the Republican party MUST be DEFINED as the conservative party. To the degree that many vote Republican on that assumption, this keeps some of the RINOs voting better than they would otherwise. Few of them would distance themselves from the conservative label explicitly, because it generally hurts them in the primary, except in some pockets of the northeast.