[freedomfiter2]

As long as "conservatives" will vote for the likes of Rudy, the GOP will never get back to its conservative roots. It won't have to.

Exactly.
How many times have we on FR ridiculed the blacks for voting Dem when they get nothing in return. Do you think the GOP will do better with subservient conservatives?

[IslandJeff]

Do you think the GOP will do better with subservient conservatives?

You make that sound, somehow, predestined. Why not get involved with the GOP yourself, given your righteous indignation?

[BunnySlippers]

As long as "conservatives" will vote for the likes of Rudy, the GOP will never get back to its conservative roots. It won't have to.

Conservative is FISCAL conservitism ... not SOCIAL conservatism. It never was until the social conservatives started blackmailing the GOP.

[PhiKapMom]

The GOP is going back to its Conservative roots and not pandering to the social conservatives who were not part of the original Conservative movement. Why don't you read the history of the Conservative movement in the 60's? I was a teenager who walked doors for Goldwater.

Wherever you got the notion that social conservatives started the Conservative movement, you did not get the truth. Barry Goldwater was NOT a social conservative.