Historically, Republicans have been more concerned to get Democrat scandals covered up than have been the Democrats. The basic problem is an insoluble one. Republicans do not believe that Republicans are legitimate. Democrats are felt to be the Rightful Rulers, the True King and Republicans think they only exist to clean up the mess when the Democrats go overboard with the economy. 50 years ago Republicans thought their primary function was to raise taxes to pay for the Democrat spending. Well, the ideas on taxes have changed but not the underlying concept. Republicans don’t, at bottom, feel they have the right to rule. That is a Democrat function but Republicans have to occasionally put the state’s control of everything on a more businesslike path and have to straighten out the Rightful King’s flounderings in foreign policy.
If I were a Democrat in the department of Justice and helping in the cover up, I would ask myself the following question. If Obama does not win the next election and Congress is no longer controlled by Democrats what are the odds that I will go to jail for obstruction of justice, and perjury?
If I were a Democrat in the department of Justice and helping in the cover up, I would ask myself the following question. If Obama does not win the next election and Congress is no longer controlled by Democrats what are the odds that I will go to jail for obstruction of justice, and perjury?
What you say is true of RINOs, and is a defining characteristic of RINOs: their whole political identity revolves around the existence of Democrats as a viable supposed opponent. Without Democrats, RINOs would have no political reason to exist.