Your position is is no more rational than the purists'. The fact is we all need each other. We must fight it out in the primary and then lock arms and go after the RATS.
My comment was supposed to be provocative and not to be taken too seriously. But there was a tinge of truth in my comment, though. I do not view my ideological differences as Republican versus Democrat. I, instead, view them as paternalist versus libertarian (small "l") and it sickens me to see political opportunism no matter which side I see it coming from. I disdain single-issue, narrow-mindedness whenever I see that, as well. The whole concept of freedom and 'live and let live' [as long as no one is causing direct harm to one another] is lost on far too many people that identify themselves as Republicans or Conservatives..and we're supposed to be the gaurdians of these principles in this modern day; what happended?