It would still come down to backing politicians (if they wanted to win) that were not perfectly in sync with the platform of the party. Really not any different than what you have now.
"It would still come down to backing politicians (if they wanted to win) that were not perfectly in sync with the platform of the party. Really not any different than what you have now."
You are right, of course.
And Christian pro-lifers are not calculating political types. They are, rather, morally committed people who really believed that they were advancing the cause of life by backing the Republicans for thirty years in the wilderness. Last week, they watched the wheels fly off the car, as the Senate backed away from the nuclear option while the Executive and Legislative Republican leaders all played Pontius Pilate and intoned - falsely - "There is nothing more we can do" about a woman being tortured to to death by thirst.
I don't think the Christians have the temperament or the will to organize a pro-life party. Rather, I think they will simply wash their own hands of the evil and cowardice of the party they supported and stay home. I don't think they will be able to be wooed forth again for a generation either. And that means the end of the Republican majority.
There is STILL time for the Republicans to head off the disaster at the pass. The Nuclear Option can still be passed, and Terri Schiavo is still alive.
I see no signs that the Republican leaders are going to even attempt to pull the party out of the jam dive into which they have put it. What I see are leaders keeping their heads low "until it goes away".
What is going to go away is Terri Schiavo's life, and the Christian pro-lifers by the millions. And neither will be coming back.