It's the inevitable by-product of the GOP telling its conservative base to go and pound sand and the inability of voters to discern a true conservative from a RINO (see: Bill Weld, Massachusetts, circa 1990). Without a revolution by conservatives in their voting we'll all be paying taxes to El Presidente Fox before my 3-year-old graduates high school (and I only mean that partially as hyperbole).
Find the most conservative candidate you can find and back them. If you can't find one in the GOP, vote Constitution Party. At least then we'll have a chance to save the country. The GOP needs to be scared out of its wits and the voices of the voters is the only way to do it.
Why should the GOP listen to anything it's base has to say. The base can bitch and moan all they want but the GOP politicians know that all they have to say in November is "Do you want a democrat in charge?".
It's quite sad.
Yes, some of the GOP seem to be scared out of their wits by the ILLEGAL ALIENS marching in Phoenix and LA back on 3/24 and voted accordingly for AMNESTY. Too chicken to do the real hard work, the thing that needs to be done immediately - put the military on the border and stop the flow TODAY not 10 years from now. Ten years from now the SW states will be part of Mexico.
GOP = The Whigs
Hasta la vista