You Do The Math

A Few Things that sorta go together:

First This via Political Wire

The End of Base-Style Campaigns

GOP pollster Neil Newhouse on the rapidly declining numbers of people who identify themselves as Republicans:

"For Republicans, this data reinforces the need to put aside the outdated targeting recipe for victory (95% of R's, 55% of I's, 10% of D's) and replace it with one that calls for more cross-party partisan support in order to achieve victory (95% of R's, 60% of I's, 15%-20% of D's). The current partisan affiliation data is the clear death knell for the 'base-style' campaigns favored by some in the early part of this decade."

Then This:

Republicans Stuck to Religious Right

In an interview with the Huffington Post, James Carville said that it's impossible for the Republican Party to abandon -- or even soften -- its alliance with the Christian Right.

Said Carville: "I don't think they can do that because their party would crumble... That is not an option really available to them. They can talk about other issues and do other things, but once you have a Republican nominee, or serious Republican leaders who are pro-choice or pro-gay marriage, they are going to lose a lot of their voting base. These people will break off. And I don't think that's a real open discussion among people that really know what is going on in the Republican Party."

Carville also appeared on The View today to promote his new book, 40 More Years.

Which of course leads to this:

Limbaugh defends Palin from Jeb, Mitt

Rush Limbaugh (channeling Jonathan Martin) said on the radio today GOP leaders "despise Sarah Palin" and find her "embarassing."

Limbaugh called her "the most prominent and articulate voice for standard, good-old-fashioned American conservatism" and mocked the "presidential perspirations" of Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, and Eric Cantor.