Bob Inglis said:

“I was at a breakfast and somebody said the President wasn’t patriotic,” Inglis says. “I knew I was supposed to go along. Instead, I got up and said, ‘That’s simply not true. I disagree with this President most of the time, but he loves his country.’ Afterward a big Republican operative in our state grabbed me and said, ‘Don’t give him that.’ I said, ‘Give him what?’ And the guy said, ‘That he’s patriotic.’

That attitude in the local party here ended up like this [from an email I received last week]:

I recently asked for help with our Fund Raising events noted below. We didn’t get one person to Volunteer! This is not how we are going to win this year! There are Young Men and Women all over the Globe putting their Lives on the line for our Great Country. Yet we can’t find a few Volunteers to man a Booth at a Fair or other Event? So many of our Young are willing to put it all on the line for this Country, yet we can’t get a few Volunteers to help save our Country from a Socialist Take Over?