GOP Goes RINO Hunting for Candidates

The GOP is hoping that by recruiting left-leaning 'Republicans' they will make some gains in the 2010 election.

For many Republicans, including Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, the reaction to Sen. Arlen Specter’s party switch was unequivocal: good riddance.

Yet even as his jilted former party slams the door behind him, the GOP is quietly pursuing a 2010 strategy that relies heavily on candidates nearly identical to Specter. The party’s road to winning back a Senate majority, it seems, is paved with 'moderates' whose records are sure to make conservatives stay home.

For the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s recruitment list for 2010 reads like a roster of some of the party’s best-known RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) and squishes — the derisive terms applied to centrists by movement conservatives.

Maybe this will win the GOP a few seats and slow some of the Democrats momentum, but they lost their base when they strayed from their ideas and principles and started acting like Democrats making them indistinguishable from their opponents.

[Reminder: the GOP just ran its most liberal member for POTUS (McCain) - who lost abysmally {despite Palin's bump}. The lesson having been {again} that liberal-light loses to liberal-rabid every time; the party needs return to its roots and compete against the Left with true alternative to our downward slide.]

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