Precisely!!!!
If the "blackmail" voters who have found a "base" in the GOP sit home this year (thinking that if we lose, we'll go running to them to lead the party) are really too dumb to realize that the exact opposite will happen: the GOP will finally realize what kind of "voters" they really are and will desert them and move the "mushy middle."
Then those "real, true" conservatives REALLY won't have anybody that will even CONSIDER listening to them.
They cannot figure out that if they really WERE the majority in the GOP, which they continue to claim," they'd be LEADING the party, not threatening it!
If we had to lose one branch of government, I'd far prefer it was the Senate which is already filled with a fair number of RINOs.
But to lose the gratifyingly conservative House will be devastating. And we probably won't win it back within our lifetime.
And the message sent will be a move to the left of center and then we'll all be left without a party to support.