John Hawkins on the problem with the Republican party.

Right Wing News has a post up describing the problem, in less than 100 words:

The GOP seems to be under the impression that conservatives have a duty to
support their policies and decisions in office. This is exactly backwards and is
the sort of thinking you'd expect from Feudal lords, not from American
politicians. Conservatives put these Republicans into office to represent our
views and the reason they're not getting a lot of support from the base is
because they're doing a very poor job of showing us that they're listening and
responding to what we want them to do.