The thing that Priebus and the rest of the beltway GOP stooges don’t get when they dump on the GOP base is that they are currently LOSING. There is just less and less incentive for conservatives to follow these guys into electoral battle when they keep losing.
They might be able to get away with this amnesty crap if they were winning elections but they are not. Adopting Dem agenda and refusing to engage them is not a winning strategy for the GOP. The GOP leadership have not earned and do not deserve the benefit of the doubt on anything at this point.
Priebus can run his mouth all he wants but at this point only results matter.
I have to disagree. The GOPe is NOT losing. The GOPe wants largely the same things as the Democrats, and they’re working together to achieve those things, like amnesty. Granted. The GOPe might prefer to be the majority party, but most of them are quite content to go along with the Democrats. After all, someone like McCain only needs to briefly play a conservative every six years, then it’s back to DC in his role as a senator, aka aristocrat, for life. As far as he’s concerned, President Obama and Harry Reid are probably easier to work with than the conservatives in his own party.