Or maybe people need to live in reality. With a voting coalition of the broad majority of the country we could accomplish real strides toward restoring liberty.
One's ideals are not necessarily compromised by concentrating on achieving the possible in the short term - Paul Ryan's entitlement reforms, for example, and the reversal of Obama's assault on liberty and free enterprise.
Judging by what I've seen of Tea Party self-appointed "leaders", many are the same self-absorbed hacks that infest the GOP. Politics is a dirty business and that's unlikely to change before the second coming.