zerosix, This undermining of the party has a lot to do with what I said in a previous post about politicians being masters of deception. For years now we have been hearing politicians refering to themselves as conservatives. They did the research and realized that they needed the conservative voters to win the elections so they all started calling themselves conservatives, and we believed them for the most part.
Since most people are not natural born liars, it is difficult for us to believe that someone could lie to our faces. But that is exactly what the rinos did - they lied to our faces when they called themselves conservative. They used the magic word “conservative” to get in under the radar and they went on to make a mess of the party. It has taken years for us to figure out what was really going on and we are now in the process of sorting out who is for real and who is not.
This is not that different from what happened in the Democrat party. We saw Obama and Hillary acting like they were just regular moderate Democrats when we know that they are both far left. The Democrat voters bought the charade and voted for them. The Democrat voters were deceived and we were as well.
I've had any number of people coaxing, prodding and begging me to run for any political office, especially on a national basis.
I've declined on the "true" basis, that I could never get elected as I do speak up for truth and conservative values and really do live my life accordingly, but no one really wants someone who is not willing to lie to their faces about all sorts of things that they will never, ever do once in D.C. and promise them something for nothing (well it's nothing to them but it's robbing someone else to "give" it to the others.)
Plus, I will never put my family through the meat grinder that is politics, especially today.
I care not one whit what anyone says about me, either to my face or behind my back but respect the privacy of my family who are NOT running. End of story.