I agree. The hard Right and hard Left often seem to wind up with common objectives, even if they come at them from different perspectives.
Time and time again here in California, I've seen the "I'm a real, principled conservative" crowd sabotage any chance Republicans have of defeating Dims. So we get Boxer and Feinstein in the senate, and Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi and their ilk in the house. Plus we get bona fide Marxists in our state legislature.
Now the "real" conservatives are doing it on a national level.
And there's no talking to them. No reasoning with them. They are so cock sure of their rightness. Gag!
That's because they are social liberals, just like the Democrats, but they don't like big government, so when moral Republicans spend too much money, they become the most hated politicians out there (like President Bush......hated by them far more than xlinton).
The result of having Republicans in power for them is constant anger and bitterness, and what, IMO, they desire in calling for the Rats to take power, is a perverse satisfaction in making the country suffer for never being what they want it to be........... morally loose and fiscally tight.