The Childlike leadership that needs more listening and learning needs to be replaced…..We win by leading, not finger in the air listening.

But what is most pathetic is that we can’t even hear the true message of the wet finger.

The leadership needs to be led by We the People conservatives and that means that need to HEAR us and CHANGE, or be defeated in primaries.

Fight in the primary. Pull together in general. The primary season is for internecine battles. The general is for combining forces to defeat a common enemy.

Charlie Crist is a Blue Dog Democrat at best that will vote for Obama’sHealth Care and Crap & Tax. If he is to win the Primary, he is going to have to write in his blood his committment to defeating these programs if they are nt passed this year and to roll them back if they are.

Greer apparently had the buy in of Paul Senft. Unfortunately for Greeg, it requires the unanimous consent of all the state comiittee.

Cynical and arrogant!

but that’s not the main issue here and I’ll steer it back to that. For months we’ve been beaten about the head that we need to run blue candidates in blue states…but here we have a moderately red state trending blue who is likely to swing red nest year whith the Dem’s over reaching…and the NRSC, Florida Republican Party and maybe the RNC not only backing a bluest of blue Republican but attempting to use arcane rules to torpedo and destroy his conservative opponent before a primary has even begun!

Party loyalty is a two way street…and the double standard is glaring but some here want to ignore the 800 pound gorilla in the tent and blame Conservatives exclusively for the divisiveness as if we don’t have a point!

And again…let me pound this home…we did what Powell, Buckley, Brooks, Gergan and the moderate crowd said we should do and they didn’t vote with us anyway…that’s the issue…we’re getting threatened with the BLAM stick for advocating something that none of us have advocated….while the other side are the one’s going out and voting for the opposition!

And before you ask me what we should do if the Lib/Mod/Centrist wing decides to vote for the Democrats let me put that argument to bed by pointing out that we did what Powell, Buckley Jr. and others said we should in 2008 and the voted for the Dem anyway!

Wait, there’s a name for R’s that vote outside the Party…. RINO, isn’t it? How the RINOvirus is contageous

I’m just putting the size 16 shoes out on the floor, and waiting to see who puts them on and parades around in them lol (or tries to pick them up and throw them at me, remember that No He SHOEdint Have)

You might be a RINO if….

If you talk about Conservative values and how the Republican Party has lost its way and threaten to vote with someone else if the Caucus doesn’t do exactly what you want….

Soon Contrariness and Blather will ensue… It has to, because those that are
would be Republicans yet willing to cross the Party-lines to vote other than their own Party (wait, doesn’t that sound familiar – oh yeah, that makes them a RINO) have to rationalize how it is okay for them to RINO in an Election while it is NOT okay for a Republican in DC to RINO in/on a vote — because it really isn’t okay for EITHER!

Is that straight-forward as a equivalence for everyone? RINOs in DC vote outside the Party, RINOs across America cross the Party-line in the voting booth. We want our elected Republicans to be Red-Dogs (loyal) and Brian (in this Diary) is asking the same of you/us to be Red-Dogs and vote with the Party.

When I say RINOs in DC cannot be tolerated I get an amen chorus, but if I just SUGGEST that RINOism at the ballot box is an INEFFECTIVE STRATEGY – wow, look out!

Perhaps I should have softened this by using humor…. like a Foxworthy joke….
You might be a RINO if….. you vote Alternate-Party against your Republican candidates and allow Democrats to have their way lol

Before someone decides to begin with the BUT IT’S DIFFERENT…. Own it, admit it, that it fits the same definition of RINO.

I’d started this thought elsewhere in the thread and another Diary (Moe’s: Those complaining about RINOs, but it really related to the point of this Diary the most and I wanted the thought represented here-in for that reason.

But if you go down this road too often, your message is always muddled, your base is disenfranchised, and far less people are willing to donate if the party leadership gives that money to people they disagree with. The Dems took 12 years out of power to figure this out. How long will we take?

I believe if you put principles first, the numbers will follow. If you put numbers first, you lose it all. The South and Midwest followed the former model successfully. The Northeast and West Coast followed the latter and have been virtually obliterated by the Dems.

Perhaps I should have softened this by using humor…. like a Foxworthy joke….
You might be a RINO if….. you vote Alternate-Party against your Republican candidates and allow Democrats to have their way lol

I don’t like what they’re doing and will fight them in the primary. After the primary, keep in mind that we do need party unity to win.