Horse dung. What, were conservatives suppose to vote for, leftist liberal Republicans in an effort to stop this Bush sponsored invasion?
I Blame years of Bush, and his liberal policies and this open border madness, with the Republican party all but following these liberals policies in lockstep..Forcing conservatives to head for the tall grass, looking for alternatives, and just opting out in total disgust.
The R's learned nothing in the 2006 election disaster.
Conservatives have fragmented like a grenade, with no real conservative candidate that ever had a chance of winning, so it would seem. Either that or the fix was in long ago.
Talk to me in November. In either case, we've become at present, a de facto single party nation, with no room for conservatives. Conservatives right now face a choice, whether to work "within" the Republican party and try to win it back as their home (IMHO, a futile effort), or band together and form their own party.
Conservatives who choose to stay in the party in congress and at the state and local levels will only continue to be marginalized...at a slower pace if a Dem wins the presidency, but eventually nonetheless.