A simple biographical fact check can confirm the social class origins of prominent Republicans from the past. The Bush family all come from old money and power. So does Romney. Reagan was, in many, many ways, a Republican oddity. Compare the social origins of Obama and Clinton and Carter. The contrast is informative.

The rich take care of the rich and no one else. People who believe otherwise are just willfully blind, as peasants and serfs have been for millenia. The system depends on it.

Even Canada was smart enough to require home owners to have significant investment (about 20%), in order to avoid bubbles and crashes.

But we had a congress and a fed and presidents on both sides who thought we could never build too many homes, give to many bad loans, or have too much global speculation in the housing market.

The color of America is changing; the military is smaller; corporate America is finding that when they get bailed out and bonused beyond reason, and when they start making their products overseas to boost profits, many of their customers are cast into financial ruin; many Americans are disgusted by TV evangelism, and there are fewer hunters/fishermen to buy fewer licenses.

More importantly, conservative once meant, at least partly, fiscally conservative; now those alleged fiscal conservatives spend public money like drunken sailors on shore leave and claim they are still conservatives because their God still hates the GLBT community.

Whether or not the GOP establishment is a moot point; they have strayed from who they were and are not trying to become an entity that can still be a political force. They are no longer an ideology that draws membership; are a membership in search of an ideology.