Back in 2006 and 2008, principled conservatives were saying that the Republican party needed to be punished, shaken up, and all the RINOs kicked out. The result of all that is what we have now. Fat lot of good all that house cleaning did us.
As Denver radio host, Mike Rosen, is fond of saying, "Party trumps person." I honestly wish that wasn't true, but it is. When enough people with Ds behind their name, even conservative Ds, get elected, it is the Democrat party that gets the majorities in committees, the chairmanships, the political power. It is people like Pelosi and Reid that get in charge, and they also bring in all the coalitions that make up that party including abortionists, ACORN, SEIU, teacher's union, greenies, George Soros, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton,... along with them. It also emables all the Marxists, Maoists, Communists, Socialists, and assorted thugs and crackpots in the Obama administration.
The cold, cruel fact of political life is any RINO is better than any conservative Democrat.
There’s nothing that says a third party cannot endorse a worthy member of another party.