I think these last couple of things are exactly what the GOPe want - they want gay marriage to go away and they don’t care about Obamacare as long as they control it.
Look at the candidates they’re pushing.. Jeez..
the GOP is run by people and gets contributions from people who don’t care about social issues and don’t share the same values as conservative republicans. they are the RINO wing of the party. they are corporatists and crony capitalists and do the bidding of the chamber of commerce and similar organizations. they are in fact the real republican party. we can delude ourselves all we want that the party of Reagan was the true republican party... but that’s just a lie to make us feel better. Reagan was an aberration. his victories in 1980 and 1984 were squandered on a man who was determined to roll back the conservative tide. George HW Bush ran as a conservative in 1988, but he was no conservative. no conservative runs on a “read my lips, no new taxes” pledge and then abandons that the minute it is convenient. he bartered away that pledge on a promise that the democRATS never intended to keep and never did keep. in essence, he did no better than the indians that sold manhattan for a handful of beads. this is why the GOP is the stupid party, always has been the stupid party, and always will be the stupid party.
this is also why the GOP has participated wholeheartedly in undermining and slandering the Tea Party. they recognize it as a threat to their existence.
i’ve grown to hate the GOP, even though i’ve been registered as a republican for 30 years now. they are losers. they don’t care that this republic is dying so long as they and their friends bloat their bank accounts in the process.