[rogue yam]

If conservatives do for Obama this fall what Naderites did for GWB in 2000 (i.e. get him elected) the GOP establishment will have two choices:

1. Tack rightward to try to reclaim the conservatives who abandoned the party, or

2. Tack leftward to try to replace those conservatives they lost.

Which course would you expect the GOP-e to take?

[LibLieSlayer]

Then we Conservatives will finally destroy their party once and for all. They cannot win without us and obama already owns the progressives... hell I would bet that 25% of the republican elected officials in DC will vote for obama.

LLS

[Sirius Lee]

Which course would you expect the GOP-e to take?

I honestly no longer care. I am a Conservative first and foremost. If the GOP no longer wants support from Tea Partiers then so beit.

[CharacterCounts]

The GOP elite does not need to tack rightward because they know that most conservatives will vote GOP no mater how far left they go, so long as the opponent is perceived as further left. In other words, you don't change behavior by rewarding it.

Also, I'm not interested in the few crumbs, the GOP-E will throw my way just to keep me on the plantation. I'll leave that for the blacks and the Democrats.