Their like a chihuahua, their small, but are annoying and don't know when to shut up.

Maybe a Boston Terrier?

More BS. Brennan's dreams were realized in 2005 and 2006, solid Republican majorities that governed by ignoring "extremes" and doing whatever the hell they wanted. It is because of those lies the Party got its ass handed to it.

Guess what? MOST Americans don't vote, most Americans have never called themselves "Conservative" and most have not registered Republican. It's never been higher than 33%. But conservative Republicans still get 55% of the vote.

Somehow the "pragmatists" insist the last Republican victory is no model at all. I know why. Because in 2004 the GOP said, "we're all on board, vote Republicans in and we'll govern like a well oiled machine in Congress and the White Housen we'll do what we've tried to do for twenty years". They won big on that message. And then they said "oh you thought we meant NOW? Oh haha you silly conservative".

The whole point of the greasy oily "listen to America then come up with core values" campaign is to obliterate any policy commitment by the Party. Any elected Republican can do what they like.

I said for five years, the Party could either be millions of people working for a purpose, or it could be a professional association for nonDemocrat politicians. They chose the latter. But guess what? It ain't your "leader" who tells friends and families and total strangers why Republicans are good and necessary. It aint Mitt Romney walking neighborhoods banging on doors for the GOP. It ain't McCain telling the carpool moms they can trust that Republican on TV. Those very necessary people have been used and know they were lied to and made tools of liars against their own kin. And now the message to them is "anybody who cares about the agenda is too extreme to be heard".  I'm one, I hear from others and we're pissed at being lied to, which is "not helpful" to the new GOP. Fine. Get bent.

Instead of quoting polls and demographics about how people don't agree with you YET, as an excuse to do nothing, try arguing your core values to the people. But that presumes the moderates have any. And I don't think they do. They have preferences they're "realistic" about.

By moving further right you are decreasing the size of your voter base. You are appealing to a smaller group of people. If a party wishes to survive it must be inclusive to as many groups of people as possible, which is more to the center right. You can choose to be either part of the solution or continue to be part of the problem. The best things for far right conservatives to do is to simply bite their tongues and be quiet while the party rebuilds so that it can have a voice once it regains some of it's political power again. If they continue bickering like this they will eventually be cast out of the party, form a new party and the democrats will have unsurpassed political control for several decades. I prefer having some diversity in the political spectrum, one house democratic, one house republican or something like that. It forces compromise and dialogue.

>>By moving further right you are decreasing the size of your voter base. You are appealing to a smaller group of people.<<

Not if by moving to the middle you lost everyone on the right's support, as has been the case in recent history. Sure, you COULD go all the way to the left and meet Obama at socialism. It might even get you more supporters. But short of that move, they'd only do better to actually get the non-socialists in this country voting rather than staying home because it really doesn't matter if you're ALL THE WAY left or just 9/10 the way.

hrm it's 50% dropout in LA Unified, 20% teen preggers, not yet...Planned Parenthood wants it 99% sexually active and 0% pregnant.

but already 50% of high school freshmen will not graduate.

Dictators tend to be temporary.

"Not if by moving to the middle you lost everyone on the right's support, as has been the case in recent history. Sure, you COULD go all the way to the left and meet Obama at socialism. It might even get you more supporters. But short of that move, they'd only do better to actually get the non-socialists in this country voting rather than staying home because it really doesn't matter if you're ALL THE WAY left or just 9/10 the way."

I'd agree! except...they're not gonna pick up more voters, that's the sad thing, the Left trusts their own veteran crew, the indies know these guys are being total whores.  If their split-the-difference system worked, McCain should not have lost 7 million Bush voters.  McCain was never ahead of Obama.  Never.

Egypt and Turkey are doing great, where's the temporary ones?  Your big foriegn policy guru is Kissinger, master of the obvious and more passive than a Buddhist nun, even the Dalai Lama is more proactive and has got about as much done for himself.

Los Angeles UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, 800,000 students.  50% high school dropout rate.

Abstinence backed by flogging worked for 175 years.  If you know her dad will be at your door with his kinfolk and your dad will either give you up or get worked over with you, you probably will keep your pants up

What kind of fruit would be thrown?  I like watermelon!

Balz,

Democracy won't work in the middle east for cultural and economic reasons. And while some dictatorships come to ruin, other don't (like Saudi Arabia).

Kissinger was timid? WTF? What are you on?

And boy are you an extremist wanting to enforce a pointless goal like abstinence so ruthlessly... no wonder the Republican party is losing support.