I agree with you. It took the Tea Party to make me realize that I just want Karl Rove to shut up and go away. He personifies the elitist GOP who stand for absolutely NOTHING. At least the Dems are trying to transform the nation into something they believe in. The GOP, by contrast, stand for nothing, fight for nothing and offer their voters NOTHING in return for their votes of confidence. Thank you, Obama, for waking up the public to what was happening before it was too late.
Sorry, I cannot call myself a Republican any longer. I am a Conservative. Both Major parties are too red for me.
lentulusgracchus wrote, "Whatever business wants, that's what the RNC wants -- and that's been true ever since Lincoln was elected."
That's certainlt true, especially for big business. I agreed with the Tea Party movement's emphasis on fiscal conservatism at the time as a tactical expedient. Now the RNC seems to want the social conservatives as well as the Tea Party movement to just shut up and go away.
Maybe it's the atmosphere in D.C. filled with lobbyists? We don't need a third party that will keep the rats in control of the White House. Conservatives need to purge the ruling class out of the GOP.