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RE :”There is a lesson here. A very important lesson that conservatives get angry about even hearing. The Democrats are united, in spite of their differences. Some Dems are more green, some are more about giveaways, some are even, dare I say, moderate. But they all share one trait, in an election, they vote for the Dem, regardless of the variety of Dem. They have decided any Dem is better than any Republican.”

Now you are getting at the problem, missed by many here, but I been getting at this.

Each party tends to unit behind their party's POTUS up until re-election and shortly afterward if they scored what they see as a decent win, against the other side. And this will continue AS LONG as the POTUS is seen as beating the other side.

Its the winning team thing.

Recall 2009 and 2010 when Rs couldnt be really blamed for anything, when they opposed O even the Senate NE RINOs joined in on most,. A few gave in on the stimulus when O’s popularity was at an all time hright, but by O-care and cap and trade 2009 and 2010 the GOPers all hung together to bring down O. And they suffered none from it

But once Bohner took the House the playing field was tilted dramatically in O’s favor. But unfortunately most Rs appeared to think it was still 2010.

What needed to be done? (and still needs to be done)

The only way Rs could beat O is to force him (and his Pelosi base) to defend things that are unpopular to voters that he needs, and ideally make him cave, but as Pelosi showed in Bush second term that was not even necessary as long as Os popularity dropped faster than the GOPs. You see how united Rs were against O-care?

Again, The team unites around team wins not losses.
Having dropped Os popularity some the GOP could have tried for some red meat, go in for the kill. Crush O and you get the gold.

As I always said, Bohner and McConnel and Romney were not up to being the winning team leaders.