Pessimists like you are either useless to the conservative movement or closet liberals trying to slow conservative momentum.
Either way, it is best if everyone ignores anything you have to say.
realistically, the pressure brought to bear on any idealistic newly elected representative will quickly mold him into a tool. K St is awash in lobbying money, the largess of which is such that its beneficiaries more resemble a Mafia Don in character and conduct than you or I. Not even George Washington himself could say no for very long in that environment. where do you think the anti-Palin vitriol derives from?