Your GOP is the Pre Reagan GOP which Rudy fits into quite nicely. But it isn't todays GOP. Your idea of splitting the GOP is a good one if you think the GOP serves the country better as a minority party. That may have some merit but I don't agree with it.
Huh? Where did I say the GOP should be split? Sheesh, talk about reading something into my post that wasn't there.
My point, which clearly you missed, is that I don't see the GOP buying into the global warming baloney, but the Evangelicals now see it as a burning moral/global issue. So the GOP can't count on that vote anymore and so will have to find other ways to win without them.
So what are they going to do without the Evangelical vote? They're going to move to the middle. So they need candidates that appeal to moderates.