I enjoy reading the more reasonable Republican leaning blogs but I'm puzzled by their constant attempts at reforming the GOP and bring it back into the sane conservative fold.
Let's be frank, the powers in control of the GOP don't want to return. They want to be out there on the fringe of American values and pragmatic common sense. They never felt at home in the mainstream and Gingrich showed the way to power by being bomb throwers. However, as history has demonstrated time and again....bomb throwers make lousy government officials. They care more about petty infighting, being true to some imagined ideology, and appealing to their shrinking and more stringent base.
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