Just remember the GOP base, has two wings in tension with one another. Both must be given something, or the GOP will do a Whig. But the current malaise is about events, more than anything else, as well as the second term off year election itch. It would be wrong to suggest it is mostly about "conservatives" being mad. Most voters cohorts, even in this strong economy, are bored, and irritated, and wish for what I have previously suggested, is the impossible dream, about how it could all be somehow better, with some new ideas, and new leadership. If it does become better, or worse, it will be at the margins. In general, America works, and works well, absent grave errors, on auto pilot.
{Just remember the GOP base, has two wings in tension with one another.}
I think this one reason why both President Bush and the GOP Congress are so listless for the past 2 years. They don't want to pursue an agenda of any kind for fear of offending either the RINO wing and the Red Meat wing.