The only two prospective GOP candidates who aren’t avowedly pro-amnesty are Cruz and Palin. Amnesty will be the end of a conservative majority in this country—and I don’t think Palin will win.
I actually think the GOP is such a complicit and corrupt party that it needs to be outright replaced. I’d love to see the tea party bubble up to coordinate state conventions, and maybe a national one, in order to nominate and get the conservative base behind a single candidate ahead of the primaries. (Then, if need be, it could mature into its own official party from 2020 on.)
As it is, the GOPe is way too effective in getting only go-only, squishy moderates in office—and then further corrupting them once they’re there. Even though they campaign more conservatively in districts that require it, most of them cave on critical issues. Just look at all of the ‘tea party’ candidates from 2008 who have since sold out.
One of the things that annoys me more than anything is the statement that we are a ‘center-right’ country. All that describes is how the media and the political establishment manage to cast what is actually the center of opinion in the U.S. as somehow off to the mean and stupid right.
I’m sorry, please forgive my venting so on a Monday morning!
The GOP is fixable. If the Tea Party cannot fix the GOP, it will hardly be up to the far greater task of forming a viable new party and then fixing the country.