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Originally Posted by BlueK
What percentage of the Republican candidates were religious right types? You had McCain, Giuliani and Romney who weren't. Then you had Ron Paul. After that, every other guy was religious right (about a dozen of them), and Romney was trying to look like one as well. The only reason McCain got nominated is because the RR couldn't agree on anyone, and McCain was everyone's second choice. He was the nominee by default.
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And yet, he was nominated. He even made a dent back in 2000. If the Republican tent were as small as Arlen Specter would have you believe, none of those guys would've made it past square one.
Successful politicians and/or political movements are not built on watering down your message for the purposes of mass appeal. They are built on persuading people who might otherwise disagree with you that your position is the right/best one.
The Republican tent doesn't need to be bigger--it's plenty big and there's room to spare. It needs to re-establish what it stands for, and convince more people to come inside.