This is something that all political parties, and indeed all organizations go through. In any group of 2 or more people there are going to be disagreements, but how far can you go before you don't fit in that group anymore? The Libertarian Party went through something similar around the time of the Iraq War, and the eventual consensus seemed to be that you can be a libertarian and disagree on abortion, on immigration, on how fast to take apart government, and so on, but ultimately if you favor aggressive, undeclared war, you're not a libertarian, and probably shouldn't be a member of the party. The difference is that the LP is that love us or hate us, it's founded on a very clear, direct, relatively logically consistent political philosophy. The Republicans and the Democrats on the other hand...not so much. What is "Democratism", really? Republicans trying to figure out what they stand for is not inherently a bad thing, and in fact after 8 years of standing for nothing except the latest fear mongering and handouts (and a year of all new fear mongering and handouts) it would be nice to see either of the majors actually have some principles, whatever they might be. The trick is really the specific principles that they choose-personally I'd rather see a return to 1940s/50s Old Right Republicanism-go go Garet Garrett and Robert Taft.
Oh, and for the record, the reason the Republicans got their clock cleaned at the polls wasn't because they let moderates in, it was because they pissed on the Constitution for 8 years, gave welfare checks to anyone that would give them a campaign contribution, and started multiple idiotic, illegal wars that got a lot of people killed and didn't exactly do wonders for the economy.
Oh, and for the record, the reason the Republicans got their clock cleaned at the polls wasn't because they let moderates in, it was because they pissed on the Constitution for 8 years, gave welfare checks to anyone that would give them a campaign contribution, and started multiple idiotic, illegal wars that got a lot of people killed and didn't exactly do wonders for the economy.
Not that I am bitter.
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