The 2012 election amounted to a desperate attempt by the electorate to purge the Republican Party of clueless conservatism.

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Their prime tactic is to crisscross the country urging voters to oust Democrats from office and purge the Republican Party of members deemed "RINOs, " or "Republicans in Name Only, " considered not conservative enough.

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who had pointed to the Scozzafava backlash this week to caution against a "purge" of party moderates, formally switched his endorsement from her to Hoffman.

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Javier Arenas, a smooth Andalusian who recently took the party chair, has begun to purge party people with a whiff of corruption about them.

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