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You may be right, but Base Politics worked up until 2005. What happened in 2005 was the Gang of 14 which demoralized the folks who worked so hard to elect Bush and the Congressional Majority. This group of RINO's essentially attempted to exercise a veto over any Judicial appointment and the folks who have given their lives to defeat Roe were demoralized.

It took the uproar about the Harriet Miers nomination to get folks on the right track but this was at the cost of 10% of the Presidents popularity taken right out of the Base. (translated to 20% of the base checked out.. never to come back)

George Soros is the other engineer of "Base" politics. He has been quietly funding the most radical of the Left to provide a nemesis for the Right. He does his thing by causing a Hegelian divide so that he can bring a coalition of "moderate populists" to power who are beholding to him. Soros has been on this scheme to manipulate the US ever since his name popped up on our national political screen.

Its a Amazing what a billion dollars can do in the US political system. Cheap for the results.

Base politics did work, or should i say, was not a major problem as long as when elections rolled around, everyone put aside their differences and stopped the rhetorical attacks on fellow Republicans.(Reagan's 11th commandment)

You are right about Soros. He ramped up the emotion and caused the right to blindly eat it's own, in spite of the fact that election damage was occurring.

I don't know if that was intended, or simply a byproduct. Both sides engaged in a degree of self loathing, but Conservatives took the prize. It continued right through the voting, and continues today and will tomorrow.

When it stops, is when we will once again have a chance to repair the coalition and win some elections, but i don't see this happening soon.

I'm thinking 2012 will be the first chance we have. If then....

It's going to take some time to realign the base. In the interim, there will likely be a third party split, and maybe a fourth, before sense replaces nonsense....The party will not be the same, ever again, in any case.