I would rather the Republican party go down standing up and fighting, than be so compromised by capitulation that we are in effect only an arm of the Democrat authority. I understand your sentiment and I would be inclined to agree if I did not know good people who are being just as harmed by this economy as bad people.
Burning Rome may have been a good way to get Rome re-built with more aesthetically pleasing buildings, but it sucked for a lot of Romans.
We see success and failure differently you and I.
A little bit of security in exchange for liberty is not my Idea of freedom.