They have no room for moderates.
http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20090602/WDH0101/906020543/1581/WDH01/Marathon+County+GOP+spokesman+Kevin+Stevenson+ousted+for+remarksMarathon County GOP spokesman Kevin Stevenson ousted for remarks
The Republican Party of Marathon County has stripped its spokesman of his title less than three months after he wrote a column critical of conservative talk radio star Rush Limbaugh.
Kevin Stevenson said he believes his March guest column in the Wausau Daily Herald criticizing Limbaugh turned local party members against him.
"They felt I was too moderate in what I was speaking and printing," he said.
Stevenson, who characterizes himself as a "John McCain-type of Republican," said the conflict was a microcosm of a national debate about what political message to put forward. A debate at a local Republican meeting on Thursday "got hostile and it got personal," he said.