Split

Wow.

Moderate conservatives are upset that DeLay and company overstepped their bounds and destroyed state's rights.

Now comes this from the senior editor of The Conservative Voice:

"The good people of this nation who care about life need to understand the half-hearted 'Pro-Life' gestures by the GOP for what they are: snow jobs to keep the Pro-Life constituency in line. When it comes to stopping the killing, the GOP can't get the real job done because the GOP is not Pro-Life."

I was talking to a friend the other day about how America really did seem ripe for the formation of a new political party, although it was in an entirely different context that I brought it up. If hard right conservatives really feel betrayed by the GOP, however, they certainly aren't going to run into the Democrats camp on these issues.

Republicans know they need the hard right in order to maintain power, but their deal with the devil has come due and he wants their soul.

I'm not saying it's going to happen. But if the tenor of this debate continues to be hard core conservatives and the religious right feeling constantly betrayed by the Republican party, I wouldn't be surprised.

And for those who doubt that a group would splinter from a party that represents some of their views in order to make a stand and potentially alter the outcome of an election, think Nader in 2012.

*UPDATE* Why didn't anyone tell me that Glenn Reynolds talked about this last night?

I'm not saying he's right, either. But the fact that he's putting it out there might make those wondering if it's okay to leave feel a little better about going.