re: You seem to have it backwards.
Nah, but it's silly to argue about who's the villain here. What matters is that the election is likely to overturn the existing power structure. When you say "If my party loses this November, it will be because they have lost focus and strayed from their root issues. In which case, I welcome a loss.", we're on the same page. The historical strength of the GOP has come from the Classic Conservative tradition, and the radicals who shoved aside the Classics are now demonstrating the bankruptcy of their extremist flavor of Conservatism. I view the election as a necessary correction to GOP excesses, not the death knell for Conservatism.