I wasn’t really referring to the base of the party, but the leaders, and by calling them ‘cowards’ my point is not that they wouldn’t be willing to fight a war, or kill folks, or even die for their cause; my point is that, when it comes to standing up to their big money contributors, i.e., the insurance companies, etc. — as well as when any opportunity presents itself to prove a point that might actually backfire — the Republican leaders are absolute, spineless cowards.

They won’t do it even when they know not doing so essentially undermines some of the most explicit, vital and long-standing claims inherent in their own ideology, e.g., that private enterprise is innately more efficient and more cost-effective than government can ever be.

And I also suspect they won’t do it because they don’t really believe what they claim, or if they do, they’ve sure got a strange way of showing it.