re: #16 Testy Toad T

\Have they flipped entirely, from amoral-do-whatever-it-takes-to-get-elected to elections-don’t-matter-TRUE-BELIEF-IS-CRITICAL?

Yes, yes they have.

This is the direct result of them courting the crazies of the teabagger party, and allowing that “purity of ideology at any cost” mentality to take root and grow into a fetid tree, full-bloom with rotting fruit.