re: #85 Targetpractice

True, hence the dilemma the GOP finds itself in: They can rely upon the wingnuts to keep them in power, but the people they send to D.C. ensure that the GOP can’t actually get anything accomplished. Every time they try to make a major move, the nutters start gnashing their teeth and then the whole effort collapses upon itself.

That probably has less to do with the nutters gnashing their teeth and the threat posed to the general election, and more to do with the nutters taking the elected officials out in the primary and fact that an increasing number of elected officials are actually nutters themselves.