That's where you're wrong kid... Republican politicians don't care for the Republican Party at all. We aren't ring-knockers, hobknobbers, or glass-clinkers therefore we can't do anything for them. Oh sure, once every few years they need us for votes, and it seems like they always need a few bucks from us, but be identified with the hoi polloi? "Never my good man, never! The riff-raff belongs outside! Populist filth I tell you, populist filth! Now where's my martini Buffy?"