Question: Give me an example where the dimocrats have ever compromised on anything. They will follow one another off a cliff even if they know it's there.
Conservatives are individualists and that is why we "seem" to always be barking at each other. Also, when one is standing on principles, as most conservatives do, one doesn't compromise on those principles without betraying their own values and beliefs. My line in the sand is abortion and gay marriage.
Rahm Emanuel took back the House by recruiting candidates in Red districts that were unabashedly pro-2nd Amendment, and many were pro-life. We haven't seen gun control legislation proposed by the liberals in either the House or the Senate because they know it would fracture their coalition.