Seems the GOP rinos win again by splitting the vote in the primaries and allowing crossover voting so that their handpicked liberal demrino Romney can win the so called conservative nomination. What a joke it is.
I believe that conservatives must start a new conservative third party rather than continue to try to rebuld the corrupted rino GOP party, a useless endeavor at best and the road to serfdom at worst.
A barrel of rotten apples must be disposed of, the barrel burnt and a new barrel and new apples put in lest the old barrel corrupt the new apples, which represent DC politicians for those who continue to try to vainly rebuild a corrupt GOP.
I think you're absolutely right. As far as I can tell, there has always been an alliance in the GOP between the Wall Street (Rockefeller, Northeast) branch and Main Street. Their interests were often enough close enough to keep the whole together. I think it was basically Roe v. Wade that started the split; that was the beginning of "social issues" becoming political issues. And the Rockefeller wing was never anti-abortion -- see Gerald Ford, pro-abort, though not in the wild-eyed NARAL sense; it seemed as if he just honestly couldn't see what the fuss was about.