There were moments when it was unclear which team McCarthy was on. 

It's pretty clear at this point there are people who are feeling angry about McCarthy being cast out as Speaker and are blocking Ohio's Jim Jordan, a conservative favorite, from achieving the role of Speaker, even going so far as to cast votes for John Boehner, another person who was pretty unpopular with conservatives by the time his career was done. I couldn't help but read it as a move drenched in spite. 

There was something of a sense of better party alignment when McCarthy was ousted. It definitely didn't please every voter, but the relief that he was out was definitely noticeable among Republican voters, who seemed to largely appreciate what Matt Gaetz did despite not having a plan afterward. 

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But while they seem happy that McCarthy is out, there doesn't seem to be a lot of pleasure about Jordan not getting in. In fact, there seems to be a massive sense of disappointment in the Party overall from voters about these complications. 

I'm here to tell Republicans that this is not just a bad look, it's a destructive one. 

We're going into a presidential election year with a Party that doesn't have it together. It is a house so divided that it can't even decide on who should lead it, and if that's the case, why should voters believe that the Republicans would have it together enough to lead the nation -- if it can't even lead itself? 

Republicans don't have the time for this. It doesn't have the luxury of being able to play games anymore. Whereas McCarthy's ousting was sending a message about the Republican Party's direction, blocking Jordan is just telling the country that there currently is no Republican Party, just an assortment of groups with an R next to their name that have every intention of fighting one another. 

My colleague Thomas LaDuke put this very well in a piece about the ongoing infighting: 

Maybe calling for a vote to vacate the Speaker Chair without a clear-cut plan was not as smooth a move as taking Ex-Lax when you're constipated as some thought. Because now it seems that a personality conflict between Kevin McCarthy and Matt Gaetz has spilled out into a bunch of simmering conflicts that the vast majority of us who are political junkies did not know about. 

How else do you explain that Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan both received fewer votes from their own caucus than Kevin McCarthy did when he was booted two weeks ago?

Hell of a time for some ax-grinding, I got to tell you that.

It's telling voters, especially Republican voters, that nothing will get done and everything will have to be a struggle. 

This won't inspire any confidence, and I can't imagine it's going to give people the urge to drive out to the polls to pull levers when the time comes. Perhaps some of this could have been saved if Jordan was increasing his votes, but he's not. He's now gotten fewer than before he attempted the first time signifying a Party that's breaking even more as time goes on. 

We're in the midst of what is unequivocally a fight for the soul of the nation, and the team that is supposed to be fighting against corruption and tyranny is fighting against itself. There is no sheriff in town. 

We're three months out until the Republican primary vote. Once that person is decided, there can be no more infighting. The battle for the nation is on, and the Republicans need to have a leader and a plan. If Republicans are still scrambling to get it together at that point, then you can bet that many voters are going to go elsewhere or stay home. 

It's now time to get serious, get battle plans together, and begin the process of organizing the troops. Failure to do so will lose us America.