[kristinn]

So when the GOP leadership abandons GOP principles, it is the fault of those who stand by those GOP principles (aka the base) for not following in lockstep?

Remember that old saying, "I didn't leave the Democrat Party, they left me?"

[Texasforever]

Remember that old saying, "I didn't leave the Democrat Party, they left me?"

They did that in 1992. The "base" has priced itself out of the market.