[ScottinVA]

but too many Republicans would rather destroy their allies than to defeat their real opponents.

Much of it, IMO, is based on the too many Republicans' innate desire to remain in the impotent, yet comfortably secure position of the minority. After all, too much in the way of responsibility is demanded of them if they actually have to ... ugh.... LEAD.

[LibLieSlayer]

You are dead on Scott... stand your ground. The republican party leadership hates all of us... some here would rather embrace that hate than stand up against it. I am not talking third party... but if they keep crapping on us... the TEA Party will not hold itself back.

LLS

[Always A Marine]

Much of it, IMO, is based on the too many Republicans' innate desire to remain in the impotent, yet comfortably secure position of the minority. After all, too much in the way of responsibility is demanded of them if they actually have to ... ugh.... LEAD.

I am old enough to remember this tendency as the "Bob Michel Syndrome" -- a remnant of the time when Republicans knew their place and were rewarded for going along with the charade.
(For those too young to know, Bob Michel was the pre-Newtonian GOP House Minority Leader who cheerfully groveled for table scraps from his "good friends" and "colleagues" across the aisle.)