Seems to me like the number of Republicans whining and complaining is dwarfed by the number of journalists whining and complaining about Republicans whining and complaining?

The last presidential election loss was a RINO loss, not a Tea Party loss. Mitt, God bless him, is a Rino´s Rino. And he lost. So RINO´s can quit pretending they know something we don´t.

Also...If a Todd Akin says something relatively innocuous, the lib media jumps ugly, and Romney and Co. jumps in to confirm the lib meme, the Tea Party guy loses. But Tea Party people are expected to close ranks around RINOs. I´m afraid that day is over. GOProud is a cancer. So is Christie. Or maybe a spoiled moldy jelly donut. But they aren´t the kind of people that can set this country back on a sane financial and moral footing.

Yes, a moral footing. Mark those pols who sneer when that is mentioned. They are Trayvon´s dad and Lilo´s mom.

Frankly, if we chucked all the politicians, lobbyists, and media drones in the Potomac River we just may have a chance to turn the country around. The way it stands now it appears that none of them have the courage to do what is right for the country. They are too busy polishing their agendas. The country is crying out for principled leaders with common sense. The problems are complex but the solutions are simple.

Sorry, Noemie. The RINO´s day is gone.

If it were not for conservative, especially the Tea Party Conservatives, the House would still be in Democrat hands and we would all be in handout land.
Thank God for the Conservatives who won the day in 2010 and turned the headlong dive into Socialism/Fascism/Communism that the country was on under the 2008 to 2010 Obummer imperialist regime.

Ah, we finally begin to see the truth come out. The Republican party does not want conservatives, despite the whole ´we should all compromise and get along´ meme pervading this last election. Ms. Emery is refreshingly honest, once you get past the opening Alinsky gambit of mischaracterizing your opponent. (Whining, lamenting and blaming are far more prevalent on the progressive republican side and progressives lost more seats than conservatives did.) But she quickly gets to the punch. Conservatives have no place in the New Republican Party. Our candidates are worthless and can´t win. In fact it´s our fault that a better candidate than Romney could not run because our candidates were so bad. (Yeah, that one confused me a little too.)

She goes on to offer another reason why conservative candidates should not run:

We have Obamacare now because of the Club for Growth and Pat Toomey, whose primary threat scared Arlen Specter back to the Democrats.

Apparently, Republican candidates should never be challenged by conservatives in primaries because they might jump ship. (She doesn´t say, but I suspect it would be okay to challenge a conservative candidate. She also doesn´t explain whether this disposition to ´jump´ is because progressive republicans are thin-skinned and easily offended or if their ideology is so derelict that they really don´t care which side they are on.)

She then concludes with a return to Alinsky and a little baffling with... well, you know.

Conservatives should stop trying to ´purge´ the Republican party. After all, none other than our very own Ronald Reagan told us that you can´t grow an organization by contracting it´s membership. (Just don´t forget that conservatives need not apply.)

By the way, Ms. Emery, Ronald Reagan also understood what happens when one´s party moves out from under them.

It appears to me the Republican Party is now for amnesty, gay marriage, for more laws idiotic laws protecting women and GLBT types, for funding Obamacare, approving any far left wing nut nominated by Obama, the list goes on and on. What is the difference between the two parties anymore? The Conservatives are not whining they are crying out that things have to change or this country will be destroyed. What Noemie perceives as whine could turn to bloodshed if the leftists continue to expand the current tyranny of our Government.

When the left loses they lick their wounds in private,not so with the carping rightwing associates.The first thing that came out of the election post mortems was they need to reach out to Hisanic voters who´s only interest is not worrying abut being deported. We don´t have a match for that.We should be using the rule of law to attack illegals alien.

How can these people walk across the border without speaking one word of english and find a job in two weeks?

A. 49% to 51% is hardly a shellacking

B.There was rampant voter fraud and a media that will do and say anything to get their guy in.

C. Purist evangelicals and the hard right didn´t show up - had they, Mitt would be in the White House undoing this damage

who is this twit and why would i care about what she says?

and these establishment loving folks can flail all they want but i will never vote for an establishment type again. good luck winning when your base is gone.

the only leverage we have against the rinos is withholding our vote

Is the MSM trying to pick another LOSER to run in the 2016 election------otherwise why all the hub-bub about Christi, the muslim appointing loudmouth fat boy from N.J. He is not a Conservative so why should he be an appointed speaker at a Conservative event. Perhaps the RINOs can invite him again like in 2012 convention to speak ONLY on pushing his person for a next level.
Noemie is trying her best to push those RINOs who have helped put the country in it´s current shape.

The problem with this article is that it defines nothing. How wide is the party? Is it wide enough to include liberals like BO? No? Why not? Who decides? Based on what? Noemie sounds like an echo of Karl "winning-is-all-that-matters" Rove. If you don´t have any firm principles, what do you stand for? Upon what ground will you make governing decisions from? We already have a party of no principles, the dems.

While I agree with the principle of building a large coalition, the task Conservatives have is to explain themselves and convince others. Currently, Conservatives seem to present their positions as self evidently correct. Many of these positions are obvious to responsible Conservatives. However, to the people that might be converted, it is mud, easily distorted by the dems. The media also makes the task of presenting a Conservative message harder.

However, despite these problems, that is the task at hand. Whining and blaming won´t get it done. Defining who we are, will.