This is exactly how democrats tool back ‘their House’ in 2006.
Yes, run conservatives as democrats, ‘DINOs’, in moderate republican districts. Then either vote with conservatives or switch parties.
The problem is and always will be that the DINO will taste the corruption sugar inside the Beltway and become an addict.
Remember the Battle of Flamburough Head. John Paul Jones, on the Bonhomme Richard, finally beat the Serapis into submission. But in doing so, he had damaged his own ship beyond repair. So he transferred his flag to the enemy vessel, and sailed on into History.
“Don’t give up the ship”, indeed...