These guys are just as stupid, and cowardly as they have always been. They are scared of Trump so they run like sheep to the nearest cliff. Genius, fing genius.
Just like they got spooked by the Tea Party, which is what saved them from 30 years in the god damn wildness that they fully earned with Bush, and ran head long like sheep back to the same fing people who destroy the Party in 2006 and 2008, to lead the Party in 2014 and initially in 2016. And you wonder why we have Trump today.
The problem is they keep trying to ram the same boilerplate down voter's throats, and cannot for the life of themselves understand that is not what people want. You cannot just keep offering the same thing over and over again until people finally vote for it. That is the path not to Whig style destruction, it is the path to Federalist Style destruction. Of being so out of touch with the vast majority of people that they cease to exist as a viable contender.
THE WORLD HAS CHANGED!!! The Bush era GOP is dead, deal with it!!!
Though to their credit, they're smart enough to realize that as long as they control the GOP they're still viable simply due to the #NeverDemocrat vote, which is roughly 45% of the country, nothing to sneeze at.