I was reading an article today on how badly the Republican party is divided.  In the writers view it is because of the "fringe" groups like the Tea Party within the GOP that is causing the divide.  I do enjoy reading the perspective of someone that has no clue what it even means to be a Republican let alone a conservative.  Any divide that exists within the party is not between the Tea Party/"crazies" and the leadership/establishment, it is between the establishment and the Republican voters. 

What was even more interesting was reading the comments on the article.  The total and complete idiocy of some of the responses is always exciting.  I have found over my life that common sense and logic exists only in small measures on most of the liberal side of the aisle.  I can't help but hear my grandfathers words, to paraphrase: if the Democrats are accusing the Republicans of doing something then it is really them that is doing it.  Comment after comment was about how clueless the "rich supporting" Republicans are.  How blindly conservatives follow "nutjobs".  How racist the Tea Party is.  Comments abounded about how bad the policies of the Republicans were for the country.  Many blasted Trump for one reason or another.  Many talked about how there is no way someone like Ted Cruz can win the Presidency because he is a "right wing nutcase".  I can't stop and wonder just how often any of those that commented have actually been challenged in their thinking?  They are educated from the start in the liberal thinking public school system.  Then they go to away to colleges that are dominated by the liberal and progressive mindset.  All the while they listen to and watch the biased news media and read the leftists newspapers and magazines.  Who then is really enlightened?  Which of the two world views has truly been tested and thought through in someones mind?  The person who is conservative and taken slings and arrows their entire life while enduring the liberal school and college systems or the progressive that thinks exactly like the majority of every "authority figure" they have been taught under or see on TV?  Yet time and time again all you hear and all you read from the mouths of progressives are how smart they are and how ignorant conservatives are.  Then the instant a progressive is challenged they name call and claim that the person doing the challenging is ignorant.  They are foreigners to the arena of ideas.  They are small minded and narrowly focused.

The liberal writer sees the polls and the "outsiders" that are leading the way for the GOP and concludes that it is because the voters are sick of the squabbling inside the party.  The average Republican voter, especially grassroots conservatives, see the polls and they know exactly what is happening.  Republican voters are tired of holding their noses and voting for the lesser of two evils.  They are tired of voting for people that say one thing and get to Washington and ignore the voters that got them elected.  They are tired of the leaders of the party not leading.  The voters elected them to stand up against a President who's policies they believe are harming this country.  Instead what the country got was more of the same.  Leaders that tell us we can't change this or the President will veto that.  Jelly spine career politicians that are more concerned about their jobs and being liked then actually standing for the principles that they say they believe in, at least when it is time for their re-elections.  Unlike the writer of the article I read, I speak from at least a little bit of authority because I am one of these voters.