The last thing needed was centrists ditching the GOP en masse, in particular with the potential to pick up the Senate next year.
Ok, so lets have it your way. Lets give Obama everything he wants on the budget and not fight Obamacare so we don't make the precious "centerists" mad. While were at it, might as well give him amnesty for illegals, gun control and Cap & Trade after all most polls show those same "centerists" support that as well. Then maybe if were nice enough we might win enough centerist votes to take the Senate in 2014 and then we can REALLY stand up to Obama on...uhhh...uhhm..well not much since we already gave him all of his 2nd term agenda.
Non sequitor
R’s were winning the immigration battle and the gun control battle.
R’s lost the Obamacare battle in 2010, again in 2011 and once more in 2012.
Let the damn thing fall apart. The defund strategy has proven to be suicidial, the House is about to cave, and R’s will be routed in 2014
Some conservatives need to read more of Sun Tzu and the Art of War. Suicide missions don’t win battles, they just give you far less soldiers to fight