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Re: Will the GOP eventually bite the bullet and start nominating "moderates?"

« on: May 28, 2009, 02:46:34 PM »

Quote from: Mr. Moderate on May 28, 2009, 02:42:01 PM

The GOP's problem right now has nothing to do with moderates.

The problem is a war between a conservative leadership structure that failed and an even more conservative group of rank-and-file who think the failure was synonymous with a lack of conservative values.

Nominating a moderate candidate right now would further exascerbate the problems within the GOP. The GOP could use a Goldwater-type candidate to burn the ultra-conservative arguements to the ground so that a more traditional, main-stream party can rise from those ashes.

^^^ This.

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