Will the Republicans fight?

No.

The election next month is not about returning the Republican Party to power in Washington. It is about stepping back from this tipping point, this precipice that Obama and the Pelosi-Reid Congress have led us to. There is a pervasive sense that this is momentous.

The alarm and the urgency that is felt by so many conservatives, independents, and even Democrats who feel they were duped in 2008, arises from the conviction that this may be a one-time chance to pull back from the edge. If American voters do not, with loud and clear voices, issue a commanding halt to the leftward slide next month, it may be too late in 2012 or beyond.

Sam Francis liked to call the Republican Party the Stupid Party. Republican performance under the politically and culturally clueless Bush ’43 provides little reason to think that they would get a different party label from Sam today or that they'll pay much attention to what Mr. Gannon says.

The Republicans will wring their hankies over repealing the whole Obamacare catastrophe and then move heaven and earth to find a way to retain the most “compassionate” provisions. The Community Reinvestment Act will continue without objection as before and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be untouched. The Immigration Reform Act of 1965 will not even be considered for repeal. There will be no hearings on the Holder Justice Department abandonment of equal voting rights and its obvious lack of interest in vote fraud. In short, the Republicans will view their new congressional majorities as little more than a cyclical reversal of political fortunes that now simply happens to favor them.

The poisonous initiatives of Obama and the congressional Democrats will largely remain in place. In any game of chicken, the Republicans will play their hands with the usual Republican hesitancy and lack of resolve. Only unimaginably awful events will ever awaken and energize the Republicans.

As an aside, how can anyone believe he was “duped” in 2008? How stupid do you have to be not to learn what was readily available about the cipherous Obama to anyone with an hour’s access to the internet?

"The Tipping Point." By James P. Gannon, The American Spectator, October 4, 2010 (emphasis added).