What a pleasant read. The high water mark comment may be a hope more than a proven fact, but I appreciate the realism present in the article, even if it doesn't necessarily defend objective principles explicitly.

Lets call it a Half Way to the Gulch House.

And when exactly will all this supposed success actually lead to a decline in oppressive unconstitutional federal government?
When will all those GOP statehouse victories actually result in more individual liberty and less government power (and corporatism/fascism) at all levels?
The answer is N E V E R.
The GOP "success" is not and never should be compared to progress toward liberty because the GOP has N E V E R done anything that actually shrunk government power or increased individual liberty.
The GOP is even more an enemy than the irrational socialist Democrats because they are wolves in sheeps clothing. Too many conservatives actually believe the GOP's lies and cast rational thought aside when the time to evaluate results of previous FAITH in the GOP arrives on election days.
The GOP lives on FAITH, just as the federal reserve banking system's con game survives on FAITH.
The is nothing objectivist about the insanity of continuing to support the GOP when a rational examination of the results of GOP control would expose that the GOP is a complete fraud, just as the Democrats are a fraud.

Articles like this one are GOP propaganda and do nothing but perpetuate the continuing fraud.