[Olog-hai]

No; they don’t care how thin the façade of their being a separate party from the Democrats is at this point. They’ve been like this for the better part of the last half-century of the previous century too.

[Dahoser]

No; they don’t care how thin the façade of their being a separate party from the Democrats is at this point. They’ve been like this for the better part of the last half-century of the previous century too.

Absolutely correct and cannot be said enough. The GOPe really enjoys being the minority party because they can just coast along with no pressure and no one calls them bad names.