I totally agree that we do have the right to be angry...
I am angry with President Bush over a few things...but, to throw some cliches out..
I neither want to "cut off my nose, to spite my face", nor do I want to "throw the baby out with the bath water"...
IOW...I think we HAVE to work within the party, otherwise we WILL lose...and I think anyone that espouses the attitude of losing in 2006 will "wake up" the GOP is being not only foolish, but it puts our nation at great danger.
Is the Republican party a conservative party, with conservative values, or not?
Has it moved left, or not?
Did they win elections by campaigning on conservative values, or not?
Do some imperil their own re-election by steadfastly ignoring these conservative values, their conservative base, their maintaining the shift left-of-center? I think they do. I think they know this. But, undaunted, many will continue their steadfast march away from why they were even elected. How does one work with a party which seems bent on walking off a cliff? Working with certain individuals within the party may be possible. I don't foresee that with the party itself. (Denial is where they're at right now.)