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Purged? Sounds Stalinist to me. I work in the Montgomery Co. GOP and we have all types here. We are trying to put more conservatives in leadership throughout, and I think we've been wildly successful (Jim Jordan, who may run against Brown; Josh Mandel; Kasich---who is a vast improvement over most of the other Republicans who had sought the governorship). Our county chairman is very conservative. Most (not all) of our leadership is.

No, I don't want them "purged." I want them to turn out and vote on election day, preferably for the conservative. Guiliani can't do a thing to DeMint and neither can Romney or Dole. It's interesting you cite two has-beens and a wanna-be vs. two conservatives who actually won. So who really has the power?

If by the "usual suspects" you mean the hundreds of state and thousands of local chairmen/precinct workers who will do all the dirty work in a campaign that everyone here (and, so far, apparently Palin) feels are unimportant, then that's a prescription for disaster. My chairman worked just as hard for Ken Blackwell (a conservative) as he did for one of our local RINO legislators. I think it is a (so far) fatal flaw of the Palin "strategy" that she thinks she can ignore the mainstream organization. It is absolutely true that the Tea Party has the fire and the enthusiasm, and when in 2010 that was properly married to good organization, it won. When it wasn't, it lost.

That darned Sarah!
She leaves the GOP cold........

Oh yeah, by the way here’s a recent tweet and pic from Scott Conroy @ RCP:

“GOP frontrunner announces. Palin clambake..who makes front page?”
http://twitpic.com/56acth