“No”
Well, let’s just see what happens in the near term. While it may not have “changed” the @$$holes in the GOPe, I’ll bet you that they are collectively crapping bricks! And it has done damage to McLame and his butt boy, Grahamnesty. Now the question there is will the the idiot GOP voters send Graham down the road next year? Let’s just hope that the Caddell speech at CPAC fundamentally changes the way the Republicans get to choose their candidates. It’s really a matter of whether the Tea Party grabs the brass ring here and fields a “good” candidate and not some Right Wing idiot who has a totally loony idea of what constitutes rape. Let’s just hope that neither the GOPe nor the Christian Right takes charge. Both groups have caused this problem with their my way or the highway approach. It’s time for “main stream” Conservatives to take over.
And what does THIS group hold dear?
What things does it reject?
And what does it wish to include?
I agree with you that both Christian conservatives and the GOPe would be problematic, but for different reasons than you. The Christian conservatives too often live down to their caricature in the MSM scaring off low information voters and non-Christians. The GOPe stands for nothing but their own advancement, and thus have trouble convincing people to follow them. What we need are candidates that stand for something and can convince voters that their principals are "mainstream".