[VRWC For Truth]

You assume the GOP is interested in turning right There is no evidence past, present, or future that this is so.

Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither - Ben Franklin

[optiguy]

"You assume the GOP is interested in turning right There is no evidence past, present, or future that this is so."

...all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Yeah, it's happened, but it's been awhile.

[TonyInOhio]

You assume the GOP is interested in turning right There is no evidence past, present, or future that this is so.

How does that jibe with the results in 2010, especially in the state legislatures?

The only hope for Conservatism lies in the GOP - no third party will see electoral success in our lifetimes. If a strong GOP is needed for Conservatism to survive, then we have to first stop Obama, or the GOP will splinter and we will spend decades in the wilderness.

We've seen this before - the Taft/Roosevelt split gave us Wilson, and look at how well that turned out.