I feel compelled to point out that there are only two ways the GOP is going to regain power.

First, they can try to selectively increase voter turnout. While this is always a noble goal, it isn’t a winning proposition; the last election saw the most massive efforts ever to boost turnout, and the results were marginal at best. There are people who will vote, and people who won’t, and there just doesn’t seem to be much you can do to get the latter to turn into the former, no matter how hard you try.

Second, and much more realistic: you can convince those who voted for Obama in the last election to switch their vote or their party affiliation in the next one. This strategy can actually work; the fringes make little difference in elections, which are decided by the vast middle of the voting populace - a lot of whom are noncommittal when it comes to party affiliation to begin with, don’t belong to any political party and are amenable to arguments swaying them from one side to the other. This, in other words, is a workable approach that stands a chance of actually working.

Badgering someone over their last vote - especially when their position isn’t even known - is not, however, a winning strategy. It’s as effective as screeching “RINO!” at anyone who drifts even a hair’s breadth from some proscribed, artificial party dogma that exists solely in the mind of the screecher - which is to say, not at all. It tends to drive erstwhile supporters into the arms of the opposition.

If this is the approach we’re going to take, then we need to get used to sitting on the sidelines, watching our minority in all branches of government dwindle further and further.