[GeronL]

Again, I don’t care if my principles win an election. They will still be my principles and I will adhere to them and vote for those who share them, whether they “can win” or not.

I really do not give a fig if the Republican Party vanishes into thin air tonight, doesn’t seem like that would make a big difference in anything.

[jeffc]

Any good book on the making of the Constitution will show that difficult compromises were made by great, principled men who knew when to stand strong and when to give a little to get a lot.

Reagan himself compromised. To get the funding he wanted he had to let the Dems expand spending (and they promptly turned on him and accused him of expanding government).

My only concern for the Repub Party is that they already have the state-to-state infrastructure in place and it would be easier to utilize that than to build a new party from the ground up (and to not have a so-called conservative party to compete with and the Dems to exploit).