The way they see it is they're by G-d gonna get away with it. They haven't given up on anything, they're just biding their time.
All they gotta do is have more votes counted for them than for Gingrich (what it's lookin like now, anyway) and in their next term they'll do it by executive order, using Ms. Giffords and her husband as props.
I agree, if the communist traitor mole gets a second term, nothing is off of the table. Nothing.