The party is self-purging. The good news is that the next generation of candidates will have an open field. If they choose to make commitments for reduced spending, balanced budgets, less government interference in people's lives, and honor those commitments, then the country will be better off in the long term.
If, however, they act like the last group of Republicans who lost track of what got them elected in the first place, then we will be stuck in a revolving spiral of self-important jerks who think more of themselves than they do of this country. And the spiral will always be pointed down.
I totally agree with you. My thoughts exactly.
We get stuck with these people because we keep voting for them.
Fear is a very reliable hammer and we have been hit over the head with it.
Keep on dreaming. The real problem is that as time goes on the definition of conservative keeps getting redefined further and further to the left. Some even call George Bush a conservative where as 20 year ago he would have been chastised for the liberal he is. Hell, right now JFK would be considered a John Bircher and I would be tripping over myself to get to the polls to vote for him. Back in 1960 he was considered very far to the left.
After the end of the Obama reign there will be no one left in politics who will even be able to define the term conservative. History will have been rewritten. This country has reached the tipping point and there is no return.