Too many on the Nutter right here simply will not acknowledge, nor admit, that the political landscape really did change in November. That really was a watershed election and the old strategies which led to failure will not resurrect victory from defeat, nor will it lay the groundwork for victory in 2014.
IF the Republican Party wants to remain a viable and effective voice for the desires of their base and for the good of the nation, they'd BETTER understand the facts and understand them quickly before they march themselves right off their OWN cliff of permanent irrelevance.
The party presented their ideas, their plans, their program, and The People rejected it...soundly. It wasn't a fraudulent election, it wasn't bought by outsiders, it wasn't the result of some sort of half-baked conspiracy, it was an electoral defeat based upon the issues. The American people knew EXACTLY what they were voting for and what they were voting against. To pretend otherwise, to keep their heads firmly planted in the sand of denial, is the quick route to the dust bin of history.
Now is not the time for the GOP to rally around the tattered and destroyed flag of their cause. It's the time to give ground, appear to be statesman concerned for the good of the country, get the best deal you can get and live to fight tomorrow. If the GOP doesn't do that, they risk becoming the 21st century version of the Confederacy's "Lost Cause" cult and nothing more.
It's also time for the real Conservatives and moderates to wrest control of the party back from the radical loonies who would take down the whole country in a Gotterdammerung exercise of pique and denial.
The next few weeks might very well determine the fate of the Grand Old Party and, judging by what we see here, it appears to be doomed and the rest of us right along with them.