They know they have have been in bed with the zealots and are gonna get ripped on taxes, religion etc. - gradully they far right will push more and more people to the middle.
They look like douchebags. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/14/national/14taxpayer.html:
"On one side is Gov. Bill Owens, the two-term Republican once promoted by National Review as a conservative of presidential timber. Arguing that the strict provision has forced a fiscal crisis, Mr. Owens is championing a ballot measure that would suspend the limit for five years, allowing the state to spend an additional $3.7 billion. Otherwise, he warns, the cap may be repealed."
and now, infighting occurs
On the other side are former allies who call the governor a tax-raising apostate discrediting the law he claims to protect. In addition to Mr. Norquist, they include the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal and the former House majority leader, Dick Armey, a leader of an antitax group called FreedomWorks...Mr. Norquist later responded: "Consider that an accepted challenge. He's finished nationally."
The conservative Independence Institute put out a mailer on this with a yellow sticky "From the desk of Ann Coulter" with her picture, asking for money to help fight the "liberals" trying to increase taxes. .
"In June Mr. Armey, a Texas Republican, swept into town for a televised debate and called Mr. Owens a pledge-breaking politician caught drinking "backslider's wine." Smiling through clenched teeth, Mr. Owens accused Mr. Armey of adding billions to the national debt while in Congress, and his allies passed out copies of Mr. Armey's budget votes.
That was garden-party talk compared with the comments from Mr. Norquist, who said in an interview that Mr. Owens had gone "beyond weak-kneed; he's put on the other team's uniform and is leading the charge." Retorting in another interview that Mr. Norquist "never lets the facts get in the way," Mr. Owens said his former ally had "tried to threaten me" with political reprisal, and he challenged him to a debate."