Some stars of the Republican Party are threatening to leave the GOP because it won't fight hard enough against the will of U.S. voters.
Put another way, if the GOP intends to keep winning elections, people like the Rev. Mike Huckabee, one of its recent presidential candidates, say they'll be outta there.
It's the same strategy used by outraged segregationists when they bolted the Democratic Party after the Civil Rights Act and gave the GOP its "southern strategy" of the past 30 years.
Except this time, where do the homophobes go?
"I am utterly exasperated with Republicans and the so-called leadership of the Republicans who have abdicated on this issue," Huckabee said last week in an interview on American Family Radio's "Today's Issues."
"I'm gone," Huckabee ranted. "I'll become an independent. I'll start finding people that have guts to stand. I'm tired of this."
American Family Radio, of course, is a broadcasting tentacle of the American Family Association, identified as an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Huckabee and his ilk soiled their bloomers this week when most GOP leaders were silent after court decisions expanding same-sex marriage, potentially adding more than a dozen more states.
With 53 percent of voters supporting marriage equality and 80 percent of 18- and 20-year-olds on board, Huckabee didn't explain how the GOP continues to oppose it and still remains a national power.
Because there isn't an explanation to give at this point.