[GBA]

Paraphrasing, “Electability” gave us Ford, Bush I, Dole, McCain. Voting for the crazy right-winger gave us Ronald Reagan!!

Exactly, and with two landslide wins, too, along with a Republican House after taking it away from the demonrat's decades of rule.

[RobbyS]

The Republican Party was part of the old Protestant Establishment, with the Episcopal Church and Yale among its anchors. Bill Buckley prophetically told us what was happening to that world in his book “God and Man at Yale.” Yale is totally secular, and the Episcopal Church has gone way beyond that, down much the same path followed by the Unitarians into total syncretism.

The Republican Establishment exemplifies secular Yale and showed its stripes when GHW Bush, its titular head, embraced Teddy Kennedy and virtually adopted Bill Clinton. They are agrressively backing the Romney campaign to fend off the Tea Party movement, because they are beginning to realize that its several leaders constitute a real threat to their power. Santorum is as unacceptable to them as Newt. He represents the Catholic wing of the Party. Of course, if Obama’s war with the Catholic Church escalates,and pushes authentic Catholics toward the Republicans, then they may pick him for VP. But since Jeb wants to claim that for himself in 2016, that presents a problem.