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“Everyone can come in and sit down for the feast but if you are pro-choice, or pro-gay marriage, or pro-amnesty, kindly realize that no one is going to listen to you so you might as well keep your mouth shut.”

Ok, so what? If any of the above is a major issue that you would leave a party over, then you are most likely already a Democrat. I would not run into a conservative gathering and immediately start a fight over the above issues, and I would not run into a gathering of liberals and immediately start a fight over deficit spending, either. (Actually, I have done both, and I am generally met with very stony faces.)

Here’s a piece of advice: stop letting the Obama adminsitration and its complicit media outlets define the GOP conversation. Instead of whining that “moderates” aren’t welcome, try defining what a “moderate” is and see if that hypothetical person is really unwelcome. If the party wants to stand for a range of issue positions and a particular elected official isn’t on board with a particular position, fine. There are several pro-life elected Democrats, but the platform still says it supports choice. It’s okay to have a platform that respects life, and to have some elected Republicans in more liberal states that differ here and there. And, it’s okay to have die-hard conservative representatives that go farther than the overall party. You actually have to embrace both extremes to claim the “big tent”. You can’t just blame conservatives for being conservative. There’s nothing more “noble” about being moderate as compared to conservative, it’s just a difference of opinion, and usually of location.

And Rick, while you’re at it, see if you can do anything about the ongoing drive by some in the GOP to further discredit Sarah Palin. Why the party would want to kill off one of its most charismatic members (with her 70,000 team sarah members, 1,000,000+ facebook friends, insanely supportive rally attendees, etc.) is truly beyond me. Surely they could find a good use for all that energy.