Unless things have changed a lot in the past few years, conservatives are about 20% of the voting public. That means conservatives are somewhere between 30 & 40% of the Republican ‘base’.
That’s a pretty large minority for the GOP to slap in the face. If only a quarter of those conservatives refuse to vote for the liberal or ‘moderate’ nominee on principle, the GOP will suffer the largest blowout loss since Mondales’s loss in 1984.
I am extremely sad to see this happening. Liberal and moderate Republicans compromise with Dimocrats far, far, more than they do with conservatives. The exceptions have happened when conservatives rise up and demand with loud voices that changes be made. But the natural tendency of liberal and moderate Republicans is to move leftward with legislation and appointments, not rightward.
I just hope we can maintain at least 41 votes in the Senate against the most egregious attempts in these two areas.
Not even close, unless you are counting Huckabee.
The votes show that what most people around here call "conservatives" are 15% of the GOP base vote, if that. At that level, and given they are making demands they can't back up at the polls, they are going to get slapped in the face.