Note to GOP Leadership: No Compromising With Obama

If we had a parliamentary system of government, Sen. Mitch McConnell would be expected to resign. Yet in the face of grass-roots anger and frustration at business-as-usual in Washington, it is doubtful that GOP leadership even now understands the message. Last week’s defeats were a massive repudiation of GOP leadership. Coming on the heels of Sen. Robert Bennett’s defeat in Utah and the Republican Senatorial Committee’s previous support for Charlie Crist in Florida, and Ken Buck’s endorsement during the Colorado GOP Assembly last weekend, it is clear that many Washington, D.C. GOP leaders are enormously out of touch with the base of the Republican Party — our grass-roots conservatives. Yet GOP leadership still doesn’t appear to get it, despite tricks to convince angry and frustrated voters otherwise...more