But you cannot elect new people. We have the voters we have and complaining about it doesn't help. If the RNC wants to make some changes, they should cut off support from apostate Republicans and vigorously support primary challengers. The RNC does no such thing.
The establishment looks out for its own, and people like Brown, Snowe, Collins, and others receive lots of official support, which enables them to continue in their ways.
I would like to elect a new batch of voters, but that's impossible. So, I criticize the system that allows Leftists to run as Republicans.
I'm not understanding why folks think Brown betrayed them. It was clear all along that Brown was a moderate pubbie - but in MA, that was a major improvement over the Dem (and it was a harbinger of November 2010 that the GOP was able to take Ted the Swimmer's old seat). So in Brown's election, the establishment was gunning to win a new seat, not protecting an incumbent RINO from a Tea Party challenge.
I'm all in favor of trying to primary Brown and the Maine twins the next time around. But it's absurd to pretend that Brown sold himself as something that he is not now.
I thought we gave that up when we finally had active Republican parties in the Southern states ~
Wasn't that about the time Ronaldus Magnus ran for President?
The RNC supports candidates in the general election ~ and usually through the Senatorial and House campaign committees. The State Republican Committees run everything else ~ except the County organizations.
The theory is that the Republican party is built from the ground up by independent representative bodies that reflect Republican principles and who support Republican candidates. It's the Democrats who are operated from the top down ~ the DNC chairman has much more authority than the RNC chairman. The DNC National Committee is also much more authoritarian, and by the time you get to local Democrat committees you find a stark reality ~ Democrat factions actually run the party with Chairmen always teachers, or union thugs, or criminal lawyers, or etc. holding the reigns. Sometimes it's the Daley machine that runs stuff.
Whatever you guys learned about party politics when you were Democrats just forget it when it comes to the Republicans. They are organized differently, are actually Republican in form and structure and adhere to the of representational democracy. Republicans don't have dictators ~ and if they do somewhere, bust their chops ~ that's the Republican way.