Seems simple enough to me...whenever the GOP run conservative candidates, they win landslide victories (e.g. 1980, 1984). When they run moderates, they sometimes win, and they sometimes lose (e.g. 1988-2004). When they run liberals (e.g. 2008), they get destroyed. If I wanted a liberal candidate, I'd be a Democrat.

Maybe there's a reason why Democrats call the GOP extremists to make us afraid of running conservative candidates. They know that everytime a conservative runs, they win, and when the GOP runs moderates and liberals, they usually lose.

The Republican party is a party of conservative values. If you want liberalism, that party already exists. And, they look for extremist radical socialists these days.

She is ruined as a Republican (RINO) now that she has shown her true colors, but I suspect the liberal progressives will vote for a turncoat. They'll vote for anyone.

This was the race that mattered Tuesday night. And the CA 10. Both showed that the voters know that the Teabaggers are lying, hateful idiots. The exit polls in VA and NJ last night were stark. The voters voted in Republican governors but still approved of President Obama by over 55% in both states, that he was not a factor in their decisions. The Republican party is collapsing, imploding, whatever you want to call it, and needs to get its act together to be a force in 2010. 90% of McCain's votes came from white men in 2008. The demographics are changing in this country and white men are not a majority of voters. The so called big tent of the Republicans needs to open up or they and the kkk/teabagger wing will find themselves shut out. Just saying.

Maybe you should try thinkin' before you go sayin'

Republican and conservative are two very different things. I could care less if a moderate (aka liberal) republican leaves the party.

DUMB DIKE BITCH!!!!!!!!! why in GODS name would the GOP pick her? WAKE UP FOOLS!!

You don't need to use sexism to get your point across!

Republicans from New England are different from Republicans from the south!!! its called variation

That is why it is time to stop equating conservatism with Republicanism. One is an ideal, a philosphy of governing the latter is a political entity dedicated to winning elections regardless of philosophy.

Doesnt surprise me... Everytime something doesnt go "their" way they cry foul! Did any of them bat an eye when Kennedy died and the State of Ma. immediately wanted to change the law back to the Gov. being able to appoint his replacement? A law, I might add, that was put in place when a Republican was Gov.!

Is this the same Scozzafava that Minority Leader John Boehner endorsed?

Why, yes, it is.

And now because Palin didn't think was was 'ideologically pure' enough (although Newt had no problem with her)
a Democrat has taken the seat for the first time in 150 years!!

Let's all think of other GOP members Sarah Palin can "help".
She is a one woman party demolition team.

Go Sarah! keep posting your opinions on facebook!

Suddenly, you are the left's favorite person!

Is Fox claiming that anti-"RINO" sentiment isn't present throughout the Republican Party?

It's eating the people who could win in places other than the South. Have fun as a regional party!

OOPS! Took NJ! I know a ton of them live in the South but last I checked NJ was NORTH!

Governor's races are local politics.

don't let the door hit you in the asp on the way out!

I have never heard of liberal Republican

Republicans from New England are different from Republicans from the South!!!

Poor Scuzzyflavor, lived the life of a RINO and when she was called out, she ran like a squealing mutt with her tail between her legs. She had the chance to step up and throw her support behind a real conservative but instead she crawled into another flea bitten mongrel bed and they all went down together to be euthanized at the liberal pound for stupid untrainable dogs.

Going back to root concepts and principles is "ideological extremism"? Good. We've obviously got them scared. Lets keep it up. Deviating from those principles the last couple of decades has got the GOP to where it is at now. This is Change I Can Believe In.