[Linda Frances]

The most electable candidate is going to need some crossover appeal for the mushy moderates so you'll win states like Ohio and Florida. Winning Mississippi and Wyoming just won't cut it anymore.

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Romney and McCain are both mushy and moderate (actually liberal) and they didn't win. I think the rnc would rather a democrat win than a conservative. They, and other rinos don't care about this country, only about power and money. If they cared they would have really fought obama. Cruz put his name on the line and was attacked for standing up for the people when he called for obamacare to not be funded. Boehner and McConnell attacked conservatives because they want to fight obama, while they want to file a lawsuit that will be done after Obama is out of office. What a joke.

If the gop-e helps another rino cheat it won't matter. People like me will give up completely on the Republican Party. Many have already changed their political affiliation. Cochran has shown us just how the rnc is just as dirty as democrats. We are looking at the constitution party. If we don't get a true conservative the Republican Party is finished, if it isn't already. I will not vote for a mushy moderate=liberal in republican clothes. I'm so sick of these phony politicians.

[MikefromOhio]

You’re very clearly overly-emotional when talking about this subject.

McCain and Romney were indeed moderate - I didn’t say the GOP needed a moderate candidate, they need to find a candidate with crossover appeal that can generate the energy needed to pull enough mushy moderates over into his/her column to win the purple states.

Right now, “true” conservatives like Palin, West, etc will never get closer than Romney did to the White House and would likely lose is a worse manner when the final totals came out.

It’s just the reality of the time. sorry if that doesn’t jive - well actually not sorry - with your worldview but it’s the absolute truth whether you want to believe it or not.