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Originally Posted by Mizzou B-ball fan
It's good for the Republicans as well. This party has been a clusterfu%# over the last 8-10 years. I'm a Republican who harbors a great amount of disdain for the current party leadership. Let the religious right jump off the ship and form their own party. I'm tired of them forcing their beliefs into the political process. They look as stupid as the preachers in Salem a few hundred years ago right now. Cruz looks and acts like Jimmy Swaggart in a politician's suit. Antiquated belief systems that don't match the clear laws that are being rightly formed by our courts. No thanks.
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This. If you are a current GOP leader/media member, you care about the health of the party over the next 10 years. You worked really hard to get to that point, and this is the decade where you are supposed to be reaping the rewards of being a major player in a major party. Spending that decade in the wilderness is not appealing. Hence the panic.
But if you are a conservative American who cares more about having a viable intellectual conservative party in America for the benefit of your kids and grandkids, then you might be very willing to sacrifice the next ten years if it means that a better, stronger, awesomer party rises from the ashes. You can afford to take a long view in the way that, say, a conservative columnist might be too selfish to take.