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I’m not sure you’re listening. We have a choice between taking a tiny victory next year (and leaving the Democrats in charge of both the House and the Senate), or sweeping the table: taking back the House in 2010, and the Senate and the White House in 2012.

The GOP is not RINO. We hear you, and we’re doing whatever we can to recruit true conservative candidates who have a chance to win. But you need to pay attention to every word of that sentence: true conservative candidates who have a chance to win.

I’m sure you don’t like Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, for example. But if there were a couple of liberal Dems in those Senate seats, the government takeover of our health care system would be a done deal: not just a public option but single payer, driving the private insurance companies out of the market (and many of them into bankruptcy).

I completely agree that we need more true conservatives as Republican candidates, and we’re doing everything we can to recruit them. But like Rumsfeld said, we can’t go to war with the army we wish we had. We’ve got to got to war with the army we’ve got.

Obama, Axelrod, Emanuel and the rest of the Democrats are jubilant about the way things turned out in NY-23. Yes, we forced the RINO to withdraw from the race and we almost got a true conservative elected, but the final result was that the Democrats won a seat they hadn’t won since the Civil War.

If the Tea Party movement continues on its slash-and-burn course, you can expect to see the NY-23 result repeated across the country, in dozens of congressional districts, in 2010 and 2012. Obama will win a second term, with the Republican nominee splitting the non-Democrat vote with a Tea Party conservative like Sarah Palin.

At some point, the Tea Party needs to reach common ground with the Republican Party. This is the only way we will take our country back before it’s destroyed.