I'm so sick of it. The more conservatives come to the realization that they're being played and manipulated for the good of the GOP leadership, the better off America will be.
We desperately need another event like the 94 election- one that lasts. Seems the GOP has protected the Senate against real conservatism more than anything else. (McCollum, Toomey, now they're kicking Harris aside). 6 year terms and fewer elections makes it easier to manage than a House protection strategy I guess- but they're determined to keep the Senate from going to the right.
Its' frustrating to know that they could destroy the Dems once and for all as an influential force, but the life support machine continues....
They just need to coalesce around other conservatives and not let RiNO's run the state committees. That's where conservatives lose it. They won in 1964 and 1980 because they got the state delegations in hand to nominate convention delegates who'd support Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.
The problem is, the RiNO's turn around and, just like 1964 and 1980, either sit on their hands or threaten to sit on their hands, in order to extract concessions and wring patronage jobs from the conservatives. George Bush got James Baker the job of White House chief of staff at the 1980 GOP Convention as part of the price of unity -- and then Baker used that position to freeze out Reaganauts from decisionmaking. The only Reaganaut he didn't "handle" -- because he couldn't -- was Ronald Wilson Reagan. But Baker probably got on Ronnie's last nerve, trying to "option-C" him to death, paint him into a corner on every issue and try to get him to do what Vice President Bush and the Yacht Club Wing wanted.
James Baker dominated the "Group of Five" that set President Reagan's agenda: the five were Baker, his servant Richard Darman, OMB Director David Stockman (who came from the Congressional wing of the party, having been a congressional staffer), Reaganaut Ed Meese, and one other man whom I can't remember. With his two votes, Baker dominated the group, and therefore President Reagan's agenda -- which made Vice-President Bush one of the most powerful men in Washington, simply by virtue of the fact that his old Yale roommate and constant servant James Baker set the President's agenda.
In case you ever wondered who it was, besides Senator Bob Dole, who kept busying themselves all over Washington with watering down Reaganism, all through the Reagan Administration, and showing the real Reaganauts the door.