[Jim Noble]

There's no doubt that the majority of GOP elected officials believe their responsibility is to keep the base under control, while preventing as much of the conservative agenda from being enacted as possible.

This is exactly the opposite of most Democrat elected officials, who share the values of their base voters and want as much of their agenda enacted as is politically possible.

[Scanian]

As long as the DC social scene is controlled by libs, mediocrity is the result we can expect from the GOP establishment.

They seem more concerned with the opinions of Sally Quinn than those of their constituents.