It seems as if “conservatives” get elected, spend one night in DC and get replaced with those alien pod people. Is there such a thing as a “conservative” who won’t compromise or become a “centrist?” A centrist is a progressive-lite; the same socialist taste, but 25% less filling.
Until there is some organized effort by a third group to get people in the primaries and win seats en masse, and especially removing those currently in leadership, sending a couple here and there isn’t going to help much. Let’s face it, the leadership controls the congressional caucuses and they decide the agenda.
If there’s a goal the Tea Party should shoot for and organize around, that should be it. It does require though, alot of people getting off their lazy asses and working very hard to make it happen.
You do not need to form a third party. It is actually fairly easy to take over the GOP, but it’s got to be along the Gingrich model of state by state.
When you compromise with EVIL what you get is EVIL!