Why do RINOs care if the paleocons go? Using false pretenses, they snuck into the Republican party and took it over. Well, now they have it.
They manifestly do...so long as they can keep them duped, anyways. The ones that they can't, they scorn and urge to leave...as right here on this thread we see Jonnie spewing his hate for conservatives, "don't let the screen door hit you on the way out." They pressured Pat Buchanan to leave...who foolishly did leave, and tried mighty hard to get Alan Keyes to leave, who didn't. Etc.
Using false pretenses, they snuck into the Republican party and took it over. Well, now they have it.
It ain't over til' its over. I would say they have the White House, and about 11-12 GOP Senate seats. I would be surprised if more than 50 GOP house members are seriously RINO. But in both houses, those are significant numbers, that when they behave as a covert bloc, can decisively impact leadership selection when there are split fields. The conservatives need to coalesce outside of the bodies, and get unified...putting forth solid leadership candidates for House Speaker, and Senate Majority Leader. Recover the leadership positions, and start cleaning house in the Chairmanships, and the conservatives can still recover governance. The Congress has to get its own house in order...quelling the ideological subversion and corruption...then it can confront...and put down... the Rogue Presidency.
The President should be told in no uncertain terms that his Leftist and Globalist agenda is finished.
It occurs to me that Congress is, in potential, still the most powerful branch of government. The power of the purse needs to be exercised by conservatives. Start defunding the Left. No more PBS funding. No more NPR. No more National Arts Endowment. No more funding for GLobalism. No more OPIC funding. No more World Bank subsidy. No more funding for the State Dept. funding of the Law of the Sea Treaty, or CAFTA, NAFTA, or FTAA. No funding, no acts. They will just expire.