Country Club Blue Bloods are destroying it (in their effort of marginalizing the conservative base). That is why we are left with RINOs ... and a pretty bleak outlook for the house and governor races this year as well.
The party is in shambles ... in dire need of $$$ and volunteers for 2008 ... the Country Club Blue Blood will show what they are good at ... ensuring the Republicans become a minority party again.
The “Country Club Blue Bloods” you speak of have been the base of the party for over a century. Many members of the current socially conservative “base” have only been with the party for a few decades. So it’s hard to say that the former group of stealing the party.
Still, the old base (the pro-business middle class) would be wise not to lose sight of the moral values society must hold for capitalism to succeed. Just as the party would be wise not to lose sight of the fiscal values the old base values (or we’ll have another election like 2006).