Looks like Bartlett and the OP both believe in the straw man argument and defining "reasonable" as playing footsie with socialists.
Fallacy of the excluded middle.
The GOP no longer sticks to its principles. It barely even pays lip service to its core principles any more because it chokes on its own words when it does. The GOP is all about Big Government, Big Spending, and fear, and pessimism. The GOP President, House, and Senate put to death any doubts about that.
The one sure way to tell the difference between a conservative and a liberal when I was a much younger man was that the liberal was the one who was whining.
Those of us who are sickened by the UnConservatives despise Obama and everything he stands for. The difference between a Conservative and an UnConservative is that a Conservative can give sound, logical, rational reasons for opposing Obama, and provide sound, logical, rational alternatives and solutions.
An UnConservative hates Obama and the Democrats because they are Obama and the Democrats. They are mindless parroting dweebs who could not logic their way out of a kindergarten word problem.
And they are hateful people. Hateful, pessimistic, bigoted assholes.
The only solutions out of an UnConservatives mouth is what they are told to repeat. Stupid shit. "Voter ID!" "Death panels!" "God hates fags!" "I blame the CRA!"
On and on and on with stupid shit. Not one single workable solution comes from the GOP today. Not one.
So if I am sick of the pig pile the GOP has become today, it is not because I want to swap spit with liberals. Don't be so ******* stupid.