[SWAMPSNIPER]

The party is much more than splintered already, it is almost balkanized.

[gogogodzilla]

Yep.

We have the single issue illegal immigration voter, who will vote for anyone who says they’ll deal with the problem, no matter what else the politician may want.

And we have the single issue abortion voter, who are the same on that issue.

Then we have the whole-spectrum social conservatives, who will bear any burden and pay any price... for any politician that promises to enact laws/state apparatus to force the behavior of all Americans that way, regardless of what such a thing might then be turned in support of.

And then there are the libertarians, who would dismantle our government and hope the world will ignore us.

Finally, there are the fiscal conservatives, who don’t want to pay for very much...and want a politician that will shrink government to the size that can exist on the small amount of money they wish to pay.

[Theophilus]

The party is much more than splintered already, it is almost balkanized.

Amen, that is where the last election left us.