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Let me explain this to those of you who are too dim-witted to understand why many of us are done with the GOP-e

Democrats long ago discovered the wisdom of incremental change. They knew that if they had said in the 70's or 80's that they were in favor of gay marriage, they wouldn't win an election. They didn't insist on electing the most left leaning candidate, just the most left leaning that stood a chance of winning.

They brought people over to their agenda bit by bit. They may have wanted Jerry Brown for President, but they were wise enough not to put him on the national ticket. With their allies in the press and education system, they have effectively boiled the frog, to a point that they pass items that would have been political suicide 30 or 40 years ago.

We are not going be able to yank the pendulum back all at once. Instead, we need candidates who agree with us as much as they can and still get elected. Just like they did with liberal policies, the public will accept conservative policies bit by bit.

Keep your eyes on the prize. Wars can be won by winning many small battles.

Keep your eyes on the prize. Wars can be won by winning many small battles.

Wars also can't be won when a sizable portion of your own troops are rooting for the enemy, and stabbing you in the back at every opportunity. The parallel to the democrat party success is apples and oranges. The Democrats have become a fully unified, cohesive, and effective party (it has cost them slightly in the house and senate, since it meant that non-liberal democrats have no home in that party, but it has been well worth it, from their vantage point). A Republican party made up of conservatives, and those who despise them, has zero chance to win any but the most trivial of battles.

Get rid of the Republicans who actively oppose and betray conservatives, and maybe we can start winning the small battles we need to win. Keep them in the party, because it makes the R/D split look better on paper, and watch the losses pile up, and watch the government expand without so much as a speed-bump.