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The GOP reminds me of the ECUSA. The more members they lose the harder they run to the left, determined that they aren’t tolerant, inclusive and progressive enough.

Actually, there is some really good analysis going on about just this effect. As Conservatives say crap on it.. and leave.. the Republican party is by force shifting left. There was a really good analysis of this effect posted on the C4P site trying to understand why Huckabee is doing well in poling when Conservatives generally aren't really that interested in him. The answer is that the Palinites are not reporting Republican affiliation to the polsters as much anymore.

The percentage of people identifying as Republicans is down to 20% and of them, still 73% say the party has lost touch with their concerns.

The officials and functionaries and a growing percentage of the remainder of Republicans are liberal and they are hoping for a return of the 60's and the era of Country Club Republicans without the messy and unpleasant ideas of the unwashed masses.

Newt was once at the vanguard of the demand for change, but now, he is caught on the page looking at how are we going to grab a share of the liberals pie. They like what Rahm did running to the right of the conservatives and gaining control and think they should play the same game against the Dems, but it won't work for the same reason it didn't in 2006 and 2008.

The base is loyal to ideology, not a brand. The party elites believe that ideology is spent and decrepit but just like the earth not playing along with the Global Warming hoax, the country yearns for values, honesty and integrity. People know the consequences of spending like there is no tomorrow, because they are in our face every day now.. and as the dollar plummets while Obama plays his fiddle, saying "Rome must burn so I can make it better." Our Republican party is thinking, mmmm.. pretty.

Here’s ANOTHER sample:
Oct 25, 7:32 AM (ET)

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Republican Gov. Charlie Crist probably wasn’t worried that literally embracing President Barack Obama back in February and strongly supporting the $787 billion federal stimulus package would hurt his U.S. Senate campaign.

Sure, the hardcore party base wasn’t happy, but the appearance was an opportunity to win over Democrats, independents and moderate Republicans who voted for Obama. The president’s approval ratings were high, and any Republican thinking about running for an open seat in 2010 stopped thinking about it when Crist signaled interest.

All except former House Speaker Marco Rubio. Political insiders said it wasn’t logical to challenge an incumbent governor who had high approval ratings and could raise gobs of money. However, Rubio said it didn’t make sense for the highest-profile Republican in Florida to embrace a Democratic president and a plan that would raise the federal deficit.

Now Rubio is gaining momentum as he reminds Republican voters of Crist’s hug. And the same political insiders who downplayed Rubio are starting to think the unthinkable: Crist’s campaign might be threatened by another Republican.

“I just knew that if we were true to ourselves and what we stand for, and we went out and told enough people about it, that we would begin to make progress and that’s what’s happening,” Rubio said.

Rubio has swept 12 straw polls held by county Republican committees by enormous percentages. He nearly tripled his fundraising last quarter, topping the $1 million mark to provide a financial and psychological boost to his campaign. Conservative radio talk show hosts adore him, as well as party activists. He’s been praised by conservative columnist George Will and endorsed by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Sens. James Inhofe, R-Okla., and Jim DeMint, R-S.C..

I was in High School in the early 70's, the Watergate years. My dad was an independent, who donated to the GOP. The Dem's fooled me, I thought they were interested in cleaning up government. I thought Jimmy Carter's idea to sunset laws was a good idea. In college, I took a class strategy from a former Naval Attache, who served in Moscow. I'd always despised the commies and in 1980, I voted for Anderson.

My excuse was that I was out of the country and didn't get much info on Reagan. I became Republican and zipped thru that into libertarianism. In the late 80's and early 90's, I was active in the Libertarian Party, met and chatted with Ron Paul at the LA County gun show. I respect him and think he is a very decent and caring human being.

So, I've been a Dem, an Independent, a Republican, a Libertarian and an Independent. I consider myself a conservative-libertarian, a constitutionalist.

By this measure, the Republicans are a huge disappointment. My GOP member of Congress, who isn't that bad on the voting front, believes that the Commerce Clause authorizes the Federal Government to do basically anything it wants to do. I've asked him what it prohibits the Federal Government from doing and he wouldn't or couldn't say.