This makes the assumption that the stated purpose and philosophy of the GOP is indeed what they really believe and are trying to do, and that the party really is trying to be “conservative.” Frankly, that is a BIG assumption, but read on:

1.  Its origins: the GOP originated with a weird (and scary) alliance of socialists escaped from their failed Revolutions of 1848 in Europe, freesoilers who wanted slavery banned in “their” territories and states so that blacks and other undesirables could be kept out, Chicago politicians, and followers of Alexander Hamilton. Since then (1854), it has given us the tyranny of Honest Abe, the corruption of Grant, the progressivism of T. Roosevelt, the do-everything-wrong policies of Hoover, a spineless Congress from about 1931 on, the corruption of Nixon, the big-government neo-conservativism of the Bushes, and more.

2. Its track record: particularly the less-than-stellar nominations of such lightweight members of the good-old-boy network of Gerald Ford, George H W Bush, Bob Dole, John McCain, and now Mitt Romney.

3. Its insane actions while in power: the tariff schemes of 1861, the military occupation of the South (the Reconstruction), the Indian policy, the Spanish American War, direct election of Senators, the Federal Reserve, the Income Tax (both in the 1860s and the 1910s), tariffs AGAIN (in 1929-30), gun control (1968), trashing the dollar (Nixon 1973), inflation (1970s), Bush’s new taxes, creation of DHS, and more.

4. Its hypocrisy in virtually everything: supposedly supporting a republican form of government, free markets and free enterprise, socially conservative values, liberty itself, and less government, while doing and saying everything that is diametrically opposed to these things – as it has done since Fremont and company first got it started in 1854.

5. Its stupidity: As demonstrated in its behavior in Congress, its nominating process, its refusal to tackle issues face on, and its 160-year history of failure.

6. Its love for big business and big government: While openly boasting of the one (big business) and lying about the other (big government).

7. Its constant refusal or failure to turn back ANY progressive expansion of government, starting with the Wilsonian WW1 expansion, followed quickly by the Roosevelt-Truman New Deal/Fair Deal, the LBJ Great Society, Clinton’s folly, and now the last four years of rapidly expanding debt, spending, government, regulations, and tyranny.

8. Its highhanded treatment of its own members and other groups: not just Ron Paul supporters and Hispanics and blacks and AmerInd, but ANYone who does not support the secret party line and tries to do something different, including the tea party movement.

9. Its constant compromising on anything and everything: not just in Congress (though it is most noticeable there) but in virtually EVERY Statehouse and most counties and cities and towns: claiming it is following its principles while selling those supposed principles off right and left.

10. Its confusion of the military-industrial complex with true defense: using “national defense” as a tablecloth to hide its lavish and slavish support for big business at home and abroad, and making the United States an empire, starting in 1865, and doing it again in 1899, 1918, 1945, and 2001, with no end in sight.

11. Its reputation as a lapdog of Wall Street: like hiding the ninth-month of pregnancy under a layer of tee-shirts and down parkas, time and time again, it seems to support garbage that benefits crony capitalism and lets the Democratic Party trash small business and Main Street, and steal truly conservative black and Hispanic voters.

12. Its pitiful marketing: lame ads, lame mailings, lame talk show appearances, lame news stories, and failure to use modern technology in much of anything.

13. Its refusal to face facts: Regarding such things as basic math (not just basic economics) and refusing to deal with Ponzi schemes like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, inflation, debt, and all the rest.  The stupid compromise to avoid the bogus “fiscal cliff” is just the latest example of this.

BOTTOM LINE:  There are a lot of good people in the GOP (at least in the lower ranks) who have allowed themselves to be deluded or who have allowed irrational hope to let them stay in this evil organization: it is time for you to flee the evil, like Lot and his family fleeing from Sodom.  Go to a true conservative party, or realize that government is an even greater evil and become a true lover of liberty (a free-market anarchist) – shucks, we’ll even be nice to you and you’ll get more done (and be able to face yourself in a mirror) if you just become a minarchist and joint the Constitutionalists or the Libertarians.

Mama’s note: This last would seem to defeat the purpose of all the rest. You cannot be just a little bit pregnant… and there is no such thing as “limited government.” You  either own yourself or you don’t… and THAT’s the true bottom line.