Sorry...can´t hear anything from someone walking away..
What? Who ARE you, sir?
Spearmint? Yes, I´m sure it´s a very popular flavor.
Otherwise...get the @$& out of my face, DeMint.
I have never met cheaper whores.

I´m with #1. These alleged "conservatives" have cost us 5 Senate seats (akin, mourdock, O´donnell, buck, angle) and now their golden boy, Rubio, is trying to shove amnesty down our throats which will cost the GOP dearly in a lot of western swing states. They drug Romney through the ground for months after ot was clear he´d be the nominee. Now theyrelentless attack, Boehner, the only dude on Capitol Hill with any power that isn´t a Socialist. Let these folks go peacefully to start their own Talk Show Host Party.

You got it. Let us go peacefully. So you dems-in-disguise can help Obama destroy the country. Face it. The Republican party is worthless - except for you bureaucrats who aren´t quite ruthless enough to make it as dems. You don´t really give a rat´s rear end about this country, other than as a game piece. You´ve obviously no love for it. Kiss off and die.

DeMint thought Akin was a great candidate and supported him even after his sick remark.

Don´t blame the conservatives: The D.C. poobahs have picked two losers: McCain and Romney, the supposedly electable "moderates" who would appeal to the independents. Both got skunked. Then the party poobahs set up Sarah Palin and turned on her, blaming her for McCain´s loss. She kept McCain from losing by and even larger margin.

I had breakfast with DeMint the other day. He´s a great guy, always has been, and is determined to find a way for conservatism to find its primacy once again in American life. He´s real smart and has some critically important ideas. I think he´s a force for good.

Let´s not be like leftists who love to eat their own.

Gosh!!!!!!!!! I am aghast at these leading comments. We had some great candidates, your establishment repubs worked against them. You embraced the lying media machine. Fawn all over the likes of John Kerry and Ted Kennedy, but throw a stubbed toe under the bus.

DeMint needs to start a revolution... The Heritage Party. The GOP doesn´t seem to realize the majority of conservatives are like Tea Partiers... not Appeasers.

The left have successfully demonized the name GOP, the same way they demonized smokers. Lying over & over & over again until the masses believe them.

Whenever their true agenda becomes clear (commies) the left always invents a new name for their initiatives.... GW to CC.

Time to re-brand conservatives... and use Tea Party peeps to shout it from the rooftops. Boehner bent over to Obama when he removed TPers from committees... Time for us to move on.

The problem #6 is no one eats their own as fast as ultra social conservatives but since they can´t force all Republicans to conform like the progressives can they will never accept a different opinion.
Which faction can form an interactive whole that honors everyone´s concept of the Conservative model long enough to win?
They all claim Regan but golly gee he welcomed democrats in his winning circle . Now we can´t even get hard set faction to vote in an important election in defense of the country and Constitution.
I guess the establishment who ever that might be is more the enemy than the Constitution destroyers. Are the real conservatives:
1. Social purists
2. Fiscal hawks only
3. Libertarians
4. The most hated moderates nastily referred to as RINO
5. conservative defenders of the Constitution who may not follow the hard line?
When you can put the nation above childish
divisions let us know. We who vote and accept other ideas will salute you then.

First HUGE MISTAKE...thinking Rubio is a Conservative. He is a RINO caring ONLY about himself and getting reelected. Amnesty for the illegals infesting our Country? That´s what he´s selling and me and mine are NOT buying....!

#6, ´nuff said. If you´re satisfied...I´ll wait and see.
Heritage Foundation needs to start making a difference. 2010 can´t just be a flash in the pan.

Great headline... if it were true ...
Poorly written/articulated article... And isn´t that the problem...

It´s always the same people on this sight that attack REAL conservatives. Enough of you republican liberals; it´s time you sit down and let real conservatives run the show! We´ve had enough of the GOP establishment force feeding the RINOS down our throats, just to have the end result being the communist still residing in our White House.

PS...what I meant by ´nuff said´...
Page Turner is one of the brightest posters here. "´nuff said" means exactly that.

Ruling class RINOs are weak unprincipled cowards who have aided and abetted the liberals in the destruction of our great nation.

How terribly sad that establishment Republicans can´t face the truth about the 2008 and 2012 losses. Its always the same - insult and blame the conservatives. We have pretty much seen it all here today. Let´s see, everything from DeMint is a quitter to blaming Palin for "not helping Romney." Senator DeMint is a respected and admired statesman for good reasons. I am so thankful he has taken a strong stand for his country.

Keep on supporting the GOP and their milquetoast sycophants and you might as well hammer your own chains in place and save the Dems the trouble. You know who you are, the little GOP lapdogs and apologists who cannot see getting yourselves out into the real fight for our country.

Heritage is probably the most well known right wing think tank but I´m not seeing any breakthrough ideas coming from them.Sorry but I´m not a DeMint fan at all.To me,he´s a far right demagogue who lacks any sense of pragmatism.Him and a couple other guys insist on a balanced budget amendment,which even if it passed wouldn´t be worth the paper it´s written on.Plenty of states have BBA while continuing to operate deep in red ink. A federal BBA would have "emergency" loopholes in it and bills could be passed off budget like the Iraq war.

Most of the problems in this country are pretty easy to solve with simple common sense.The problem is the political will to do them. Obama´s ignoring all the roadblocks while pushing a far left agenda,the same thing could be done if you had conservatives controlling the 3 branches.

Republicans are losing elections because they lack ideas to solve problems.There´s an old adage about people voting for a lousy plan over no plan at all and that´s how Obama is doing it.The left has no ideas either but they don´t need one when they´re willing to pull out all stops to buy and import votes.

The GOP establishment is the biggest impediment to conservatism. It has to go. They have done nothing to shrink government, nothing to simplify the tax code. They haven´t repealed a single socialist program. It´s funny how the most radical Democrats never get thrown under the bus by their party, but the GOP cowers at charges of racism or strong anti-abortion views.

What some goblins on this site want you to believe, and oh they want you to believe it, is that conservatives are the problem, not the One Party in D.C. that pretends it is two parties.

If they can keep you occupied with feeling guilty with the meme of Republicans "eating their own," they will be able to prevent conservatives from breaking free of the GOP establishment. Conservatives must understand that Boehner and his ilk are as dangerous as anyone on the Left, because they hide behind the GOP curtain. At best, their agenda is to maintain their position and power; at worst they are in league with Dem goals. It is safe to say we have seen both agendas.

If conservatives would wake up and admit what has happened, stand on principle, and LEAVE the Republicans to their own devices, the elitist GOPers would quickly wither in power and ability to advance a losing political agenda. They continue to exist only because a sizable number of conservatives have yet to see the writing on the wall, and because there are many right-leaning pundits who also refuse to wake up or are afraid.

I´m with DeMint..problem is the ole rinos will ignore him.. The rinos forget the 2010 election was won by the tea party... not Rove, Krystal, McCain ...The Heritige Foundation selected DeMint because he´s a true conservative. The rinos in the senate ignored DeMInt´s great suggestions, they just went along with the same ole boy´s club.

Every time Jim DeMint asked me for a donation I sent money. I believed in what he was doing, recruiting conservatives. I am glad to see him as head of the Heritage Foundation, to which I have also regularly contributed. However, I am not one of those conservatives who hate Republican moderates, want to destroy them and fight total war against them. I find enough enemies within the Democrat party.

Got a call yesterday from the RNC wanting money. They were told, in no uncertain terms, no more $$$ from me until they stop screwing around and start supporting Conservatives.

Any time I hear someone calling pro lifers "social purists", it makes my blood boil.
Abortion is murder, and opposing it is a core conservative value. It isn´t an issue to be argued, any more than are the the first and second amendments.

I´m with #6 and #22...they are among the brightest and best. I always read and think about what they have said. The GOP has a dilemma...to follow the Good Old Boys who used to run the party or bring in more conservative thinkers. The trouble is, these two factions don´t play well together.

Watch Hannity´s special tonight "Boomtown." (Whether you like Hannity or can´t stant him, this show is like his show about Bill Ayers; it is illustrative.) I think the problem he highlights may lead us to a very difficult solution to this nations´ problems. Long-serving incumbents are not serving the nation, but rather themselves.

Conservatives were told to shut up and sit down and would only be called when money and votes were needed. Bonehead threw conservatives off committees. As stated here many times before, Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. Your either conservative or not, no half measures, all in or all out. Read the Declaration of Independence, then come back and tell me about half measures.

The so called fight between RINOs and Conservatives reminds one of a National Geo show about competing animals quarreling at a drought shrunk watering hole. The real problem is that popular support like the flow of abundant fresh water has been lost. All Republicans should first focus on restoring that instead of making things easier for the Bolsheviks.

I must admit, I agree with #20.

#6 and #22 thanks for the first hand reports.

I respect and admire Jim DeMint, he left the swamp, and I believe he will make a difference. He´s just getting started, give him some time.

#6,20,22 I agree. We are told to sit down and shut up like poster reminded us. All the posters on Lcom who are Rove supporters..just to keep from saying rino...have doomed us to losing our country. We are headed for a long downward fall and I personally do not expect to see us recover. Am no longer a Republican because the Rino´s are no longer republicans in name only...they are the only Republicans left. The ones of us who realize that appeasement, stupidity, moderates, reach across the aisles, and clinging to their own office is all Repubs care about. Those of us who are conservatives are not welcome in the party so we are leaving in droves. Rejoice moderates, you have won. Own the end of our country.

I pride myself on being conservative, but I´ve really had it with the all-or-nothing crowd.

The increasing number of accomplished and appreciated Republican Governors could certainly tell the national level GOP leadership something about winning elections, simply because they are and they are closer to the citizens who elect them in their respective states and thus they REMAIN more responsive to the will of the people whom they represent and to their oaths of office. Ideally, they remain OF the people, BY the people and FOR the people, humbled by always remembering they are representative public servants who are responsible TO the people, ...NOT the other way around.

In contrast, too many GOP pols at the national GOP leadership leadership level have become so entrenched in the intemidating beltway PC statist, ´culture,´ that they simply disregard their fellow citizens back home in order to fit in with the rest of the pols in, ´´Boomtown,´´ who have themselves become drunk with power OVER the people instead of being responsive TO the people, ...and the U.S. Constitution which the elected swear an oath to uphold.

Such pols who become so intemidated & dazzled by, ´´Boomtown´s,´´ very own special, ´communal,´ siren song to conform & perfectly fit in with the beltway´s, ´cookie-cutter fraternity,´ of elitist pols, become disconnected from those who elected them and who remain working hard and living their lives back in their own states. ...Who even listens to THEM anymore since such statist pols would rather hear the approval of by the dems´ alphabet media cookie-cutter clones? on TV?!

Where are the principled, ´´Mr. Smith Goes To Washington,´´ voices in the GOP leadership anymore? Gov. Sarah Palin is a, ´´Mr. Smith,´´ as was Pres. Reagan a couple of decades before. DeMint is right!

#30. Either you are for the Constitution or you are not..being in the middle of the road makes you road-kill.
Democrats are now the far extreme left side of the party..progressives is what they call themselves, which is a soft word for communist.
I find no common ground with high spending, free stuff politicians who pander to the dumb masses, buy votes, cheat, lie and steal and are soft on illegal alien crime.
Add to that the fact that even the way you sneeze can get one accused of being racist, and they favor killing babies..JUST HOW does a conservative find common ground ?

Conservatism was incubated in classical Athens and advanced by ageless thinkers such as Cicero, the Scholastics, Burke, Pitt, de Maistre, Disraeli etc. The R party has nothing to do w/principled conservatism and never had. Ever. During its ascendancy, post Civil War, GOP orthodoxy was the secular and reformist progressivism of the Gilded Age. That all changed in ´32 when FDR won the progressive banner and the fight in DC has been over this banner, ever since. As Lincoln observed, a House divided against itself cannot stand and that is the crux of the GOP problem; the rank and file is center-right while the establishment is trendy lefty. Their POTUS/Senate nominees over the past 4 generations are proof positive of that; the latest exhibit being doofus Romney. Sadly many dim types refuse to grasp this. No matter. Effectively the GOP is a carcass in need of burial.

XXXIII, its cheaper to keep her. Reagan triumphed, Gingrich triumphed, Ryan and Palin and Jindal are disciples of Reagan and Kemp. The establishment has money, but nothing else, not ideas, no principles, no spiritual and intellectual foundation.
We must not be content to merely shut up and sit in the back seat, nor satisfied with holding the map--- these people, the one world, secular governmentalists you described must never again be entrusted with the car keys.
We know who they are, we must not be brainwashed.