The republican party needs to become more discriminating. Not everyone who shows up with an elephant on his lapel should be admitted. People running for office, especially at the national level, need to be colloquized into the party. Republican need to be conservative, in thought, word, and deed.
Conservatives make up about 35% of the electorate. If yo throw everyone else out you have permanent minority status. The moderates should be welcomed but they need to find ways to become responsive. Just as conservatives need to understand that Philly suburbs and just about every major geographical area north and east off their simply will not accept down the line conservatives anymore. we will have to develop a conservative line of thought that reflects the needs and cultural predisposition of that area. And they will have to find way to be responsive to the rest of us and we to them. Their is just no other way.The strength of the Reagan coalition is that it included those persons.The weakness of the present party is that it does not. Part of it was because The Dem’s lost the independents and the moderates and we have now made the same mistake. you have to appeal to a majority their is just no other way. McCain was a perfect example of how not to run the party he was not a moderate he was just a backstabber who stabbed his own people in the back.
Giuliani for instance found ways to relate his views to the majority of the people where he lived. But, he was responsive to conservatives when he lowered the taxes and the cost of government banned porn in times square and yelled bloody murder about the “piss Christ”. He also went law and order and did something about Crime. he was also responsive to most of the people in NYC who were not conservatives and Republican’s. he actually ended up with more actual accomplishments on conservative principles then the idiots we have in congress. In most areas of the country he would not have to take so many lib positions.
So there is an example of how to make conservatives responsive instead of just turning over large Dem areas to the ‘crats.