Not the point being addressed. You stated: "And...Rahm and Axelrod and Carville and Obama and Wright and etc etc positively jubilant."
The logical follow-up query, then, becomes: "... and whose fault is that, ultimately? That of the actual conservative voting base, themselves... or a craven and thoroughly compromised Republican party leadership?"
You appear to be leaning towards the former, rather than the latter. There's a time-honored, deadly accurate technical term used to describe political parties which no longer reflect -- and are even openly contemptuous of -- the concerns and desires of their respective bases.
That term is: LOSERS.
Think about it. Hard.
Do you do this when your dog craps on the carpet? Argue with the wife about whose fault it is?
It's what untrained dogs do. It's what politicians do. Dogs crap, Politicians pander.
The question is are we going to teach the dog a lesson by sitting down on the couch in disgust and leaving the dog crap on the floor?
We either actively clean up the mess or we lose. It doesn't matter who stank up the place.
To continue the analogy, where has the house training been form us for the RINOs? When did the "Tea Partiers" become active? It's not like RINOs are a new phenom....are they?
You think about it. Do you want to be controlled by these tyrants in DC forever? We had better get our crap together or that is exactly what will happen.
Re you BRILLIANT observation:
“There’s a time-honored, deadly accurate technical term used to describe political parties which no longer reflect — and are even openly contemptuous of — the concerns and desires of their respective bases.
That term is: LOSERS.”
A-MEN, right ON, dittos, affirm-a-tory and 10-4, My good man!
Now the question is; are said losers capable of getting a CLUE??!!
Unfortunately, that corollary does not seem to apply so much up here in Maine, where Oly SNOWE and Susan COLLINS keep getting re-elected by landslides every time they run. *{8^{(~
IMHO we need a serious changing of the guard and sending a lot of current players back to the farm teams to brush up on reality.
We live in interesting times...