.....the RNC/GOP is not going to be happy.
If the powers within the RNC/GOP think that people like Jim DeMint, Sarah Palin, Allen West, Michelle Malkin, Mark Levin, and the legions of Tea Partiers, are going to sit back and remain quiet while the party caves to Obama and Reid, they really aren't paying attention. The ongoing purge of Conservatives from committee leadership positions in the House may very well be "the shot heard round the country". Of course, it didn't help when the Romneyites pushed through the RNC rules changes at the convention, over the objections of grass-roots Conservatives.
I don't think the current GOP can survive what is about to happen to them. Constitutional Conservatives, Fiscal Conservatives, Libertarian-leaning Conservatives, and yes, even Social Conservatives, will no longer aquiesce to those who have driven the party to its low point. The Ron Paul legions are not dead. The Sarah Palin legions are not dead. Allen West is a black man revered by the base. Malkin and Levin have millions of people who listen to them. Real Constitutional Conservatism is not dead. Social Conservatism will be moved off the national stage and on to the state stage where it belongs. Compassionate Conservatism has moved the party so far left, it will take a massive uprising against party leadership to right the course. Republicans cannot beat the Democrats if all they want to be is Democrat-lite, while hoping that the media will be nice to them.
By 2014, the GOP will become a true Conservative party, or it will find itself without the base that it needs to survive. Either way, things are going to change and it's my hope that the current power brokers in the RNC/GOP aren't so foolish as to "cut off it's nose to spite its face". A Marco Rubio, a Paul Ryan, or a Jeb Bush can't fix what's broken and the party power brokers putting those names front and center for Election2016 is a serious mistake. Maybe one of them will turn out to be the best candidate in 2016, but that remains to be seen. The base is ready to "take names and kick asses". The base is ready to cut off a leg to save the body.
Tell me I'm wrong, but IMO, the next two years is going to determine the future of the Republican Party and may very well determine the future of the Republic. To put it into the words of the late Andrew Breitbart, "WAR!"
EDIT: It was just disclosed that Jim DeMint will step down as senior Senator from South Carolina to head the Heritage Foundation, effective in January. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...sj_share_tweet
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