Who?

I’d also add, the problem isn’t really that NE GOP candidates are “moderate”, it’s that the NE GOP electorate is moderate. If you want to change the outcome of the elections here, you need to change the base before you change the candidates.

There’s a lot of people out there claiming that Hoffman lost because the locals didn’t like meddling from the national scene. But that just doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Hoffman had more support than Scozzafava before all of the high-profile endorsements began, so clearly the electorate was unhappy with the GOP’s pick. Sure there was support from moderates thrown to Owens camp after Scozzafava bowed out, but would the conservative base have even bothered to come out if Hoffman wasn’t in the race? I think either way we would have scene a GOP loss (and lets not forget that with her dropout, the GOP as a party had already lost before voters had even gone to the polls). No matter what way you slice it, the party leaders bungled this from the beginning.

Though OTOH, I understand that there are other dynamics at play. For the Northeast, Scozzafava wasn’t really as liberal as many like to claim. From living in the NE, I can tell you that abortion and gay marriage aren’t as big issues as they are in other parts of the country. Many in the GOP here could care less about either issue and many even support the legalization of both. Our base is made up of rural voters who care most about limited government, and what some like to deem “Country-Club Republicans”. Both aren’t real big on social/moral conservatism. National support from religious and social conservatives would actually hurt a NE candidates chance of winning. The “Country-Clubbers” would drop support, and unfortunately, that’s where the local party gets a lot of its money from. From growing up surrounded by these “Country-Clubbers”, I can tell you that they look down on most of the country. To them, the South is full of inbred hicks and the midwest is just flyover territory (I’ve been to both, so I can see that’s not the case).

My overall point, I guess, is that the GOP is probably going to have to accept moderates and even RINOs in order to win elections in the NE. I’d love for it not to be the case, but I don’t see things changing in the immediate future.

The platform is to follow the Constitution and the founding principles. All who support that are welcome into the big tent of real American values.

Govt social spending never helps, it harms.

I saw Gingrich on Hannity yesterday, and one of the things he said really struck a chord with me. He mentioned that at the end of the day, the key thing he is working towards is to place John Boehner in the Majority Leader’s seat. On that I agree. We need to take back the majority…..BUT we must also make sure hat we are doing so with true conservatives. Scozzafava was the wrong choice. She is a died in the wool liberal with no conservative values whatsoever.

Though I’m very conservative, I’m not one of those who think that the party needs to squeeze out anyone who is not 100% conservative.

As long as the candidate is with me on the majority of the issues, and on the key issues, right to life, smaller government, fiscal restraint, lower taxation, they are welcome to stay in the party. I trust that strong party leadership will keep the more moderate members in line.

The party platform is let gays be gays, but no corruption of the meaning of marriage; no killing of the preborn because mom doesn’t want to lose her girlish figure; take care of those in genuine need and provide charter schools and vouchers for poor kids stuck in inner-city schools run by the democrat macine & the NEA.

Oops. If Janet Reno’s Kid sister had “WON”

Dino, Let’s start by practicing your platform. Send me all of your earnings, al of your children’s earnings, and all of their children’s earnings. Then tell me how you like that chane.

hes very, very wrong… vote for the person because they have have an ‘r’ behind their name? no, thank you. thats what the libby sheep do. follow their masters orders just like algores daddy and liberal leader, hero, icon KKK byrd would want them to do. I hope the gop learns from this.

Gingrich? I thought that was Barbra bush in drag……

Gingrich is now a RINO? Wow. Good luck with that.

Like I said, all you people think about is how to get out of paying for the services and resources of society. You want everything to be free to you. You think your fabulous military runs on air.

In short, conservatism is dead beat-ism.