http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/06/snowe-grows-campaign-war-chest-but-draws-tea-party-ire/
dont be too sure they’ll be the same republicans.
Hopefully you are right. We'll know after the primaries, if the electorate overwhelmingly endorses TEA party candidates over establishment RINOs, it's gonna be a smokin' general.
However if the RINOs easily push aside the conservative primary challengers, then the voters "anybody but a Democrat" penchant will put in place the equivalent of eunuch DemoRats, liberal progressive Republicans, without stones or spine, and they will be as bad as the Marxist Rats.