ISO: Will Adults Control Legislature?

The Idaho Republican Party is coming up on a legislative session and subsequent election that could determine their direction for years to come. The battle, as it is elsewhere in the country, is between the more Libertarian/State’s Rights wing of the party and the establishment (hereafter referred to, in the preferred language of the insurgents, as “RINOs” – Republicans in Name Only). Were one to only look at the Idaho GOP platform adopted in 2010, an outside observer might think that the extremists had already won; the platform calls for, among other interesting ideas, the repeal of the 17th Amendment and returning to the gold standard . It’s one thing for party activists to adopt a bold party platform , but another for the more reasonable members of said party to actually vote for it when their actions may be noticed by the wider public/ Joel Kennedy , iSightOnline. More here.

Question: Is this the year that the Idaho Senate joins the House in passing crazy stuff like Vito Barbieri’s nullification bill? Or will the adults prevail again overall?