Always been that way.
We got saddled with Nixon because even though he was a liberal he was an anticommunist, and that was the most important issue of the time. When support for him collapsed, it collapsed with Hugh Scott and his merry bunch of squishes.
We carried water for Bush II because he had some conservative impulses and on the response to Al Qaeda's attack on America he was correct. What did we get in return? Rove and all the Texas insiders stabbing us in the back whenever the opportunity arose.
If they've ditched Christie it means we won't have to support him when he starts nominating Islamists to the Federal Courts, pushing full-blown amnesty, or whatever idiocy he's got up his sleeve.
Time to ditch Bush the Pudgy next.
In the case of congress, there is huge difference in the electorate in MA and Texas.
The voters they must answer to don't react anything alike on many issues. Lou Gomert is not and doesn't have to be the least bit articulate, his district is a carved out solid conservatives. The government shuts down and they will welcome him as a hero.
Now the POTUS race is a different and more complex story.