Why do a thing to secure victory when the Republicans are working overtime and cancelling their summer recess to assure their own defeat?
Using Obamacare as a Great example, I get the impression that the GOP does not WANT to win. They do not want to be in a leadership position. Because leadership means that they actually have to do something and to take some responsibility, and they hate that.
As I see it, the GOPe supports the same goals as the Democrats. They both want the same things. But, the GOP wants their goals to be pinned on the Democrats. That is why the GOP is happy to lose. They want the Democrats out there implementing the Democrat agenda, which is also the GOPe agenda.
With the Democrats in charge, the GOPe will do a FAKE opposition, as we have all seen hundreds of times, to pretend to be 'against' what the Democrats are doing. And yet, as we have all seen hundreds of times, every single thing that the Democrats push will 'miraculously' pass somehow, as it always does.
Will the Republicans be defeated in the next election? If the GOPe has their way, hell yes they will. Then the GOPe can sit back in the rocking chair, all the while pretending to be against the Democrats, and simply watch everything they want to do get done by the Democrats without them having to lift a finger.
That is what GOP is used to. That is what they want. And the "Gravy-Train" keeps rollin' on in.