Why are some right wing leaders and spokespeople toying with the idea of civil war?

Surely you realize there is a pretty significant qualitative difference between “We don’t like the direction the country is heading so we’re moving to a country more in line with our ideals” and “We don’t like the direction the country is heading so we’re mentioning/advocating/dreaming about seceding from the Union”? And that there is a significant and qualitative difference between Alec Baldwin saying something and Gov. Rick Perry saying it?

Republicans lost an election. The person and party that won significantly more votes are enacting exactly the platform that they ran on. The appropriate response is to either explain to the American people why your approach is better or modify your proposals to better match the mood of the electorate in the hopes of winning more votes next time. The sooner the GOP figures this out the better off we’ll all be.