This is what I’ve been fighting. You want to throw Ron Paul out of the party, when on most every issue he’s been a stalwart party loyalist, and a valued vote in the House.
Worse, you want to throw all his supporters OUT OF THE PARTY. “You support Ron Paul, we don’t want your vote”.
If we keep throwing everybody out of the party that doesn’t only support our candidates, we’ll have a 20% party and a democratic super-majority.
We NEED moderate and liberal republicans, AND independents, to vote for OUR candidates in a general election to win.
We won’t get their votes if we call them names, trash them, tell them we think they are all stupid, and then show up on election day and say “nothing personal — won’t you still vote for us?”
I’ve seen REAL conservatives who have voted AGAINST real conservatives simply because of personal slights. Not rational maybe, but its HUMAN.
Attack the candidates’ position on the issues. Let’s stop telling everybody that doesn’t support OUR candidate to go to h*ll, or they will — at least, they will leave OUR heaven, and vote against us out of spite.
BTW, it’s not just you. Many others have shown particular glee running around labelling anybody who doesn’t agree with their candidate as “non-conservatives” (usually they use much more colorful language).
As I’ve said to some, keep going, and when you show up at your next “Republican convention”, you’ll have to bring the refreshments, because nobody else will be there.
I hate to admit it, but I think Rush has done more than anybody to propagate this "purity law" type thinking.
He says: "Conservatism works every single time it's tried."
It is demonstrably not true. Ask Rick Santorum, Michael Steele...
The conservative purists and the marxists have one thing in common: they want everything to be common.
They really don't believe in Federalism, with different laws in different states....they believe that there must be a Gay Marriage Amendment to make everything uniform across the country, pro- or con--. They believe in federal spending---for THEIR pet peeve.
We've lost the ability to even communicate why a broad coalition of a party (including Reagan democrats, etc.) is better than a purified one exclusive of all else.