And this doesn't help us in our bid for the middle.
Thank you for summing up precisely what is wrong with the Republican Party. Instead of leading and showing people that our ideas and principles are better and desirable the GOP is instead busying itself with gaining power by appeasing the unprincipled and pandering to the left. By compromising nearly everything that is good and true, what is gained by having the Republicans win?
You're preaching party and power over principle again - but we've had this argument before.
If leading people, in your mind, means desecrating great artworks done by masters, then the left's description of us as American Taliban is correct.
Count me out of this Victorian severity. I'm a conservative, not a Quaker.