Rep. Mike Pence’s full speech from this morning is here.

Here’s the intro:

Two years ago, when I presented
the keynote address here at CPAC 2004, I likened the state of the
Republican movement to a tall ship at sea – a ship that had drifted
off-course from essential conservative principles.

I said we had lost our way.  But I believed we could get back on course — would
get back on course. We could make the corrections. We needed only to
keep our eye on True North — our core principles of limited government
and traditional moral values.

I
believed that we were off course not because we’d abandoned these
principles, or forgotten the shining city on the hill.  We’d simply
made honest, but flawed calculations on how to get there.

I no longer believe that.

It’s one thing to drift off course…

It’s
quite another thing to continue that course when half the crew and
passengers are pointing out that nothing looks familiar … not to
mention the tens of millions of Americans lining the shoreline
screaming, “You’re going the wrong way!”

In short, we’re no longer adrift.  We might’ve been when we started but now “off course” is the accepted course.

This is all quite an escalation for him. Guess he doesn’t think the leadership election in the House represented much in the way of real reform.

He’s right.