I think maybe the Ruling Class punks like McConnell and their chief strategists like The Butthead have to remind those damned principled conservatives, Tea Party types and sundy Libertarians to STFD STFU and accept second-tier status and play ball or else it will be their damned fault that nobody but Democrats will rule everyone!
Now is it me, or does that sound like a threat? The E-GOP thinks they can extort your vote - otherwise you let "the other guys" win - but once in office the E-GOP really and truly never does ANYTHING to harm the Dems agenda. Just a bit of token resistance and bluster. Enough to keep of the illusion that they a "fighting" but they will NEVER choose a hill to die on and they will never win a battle. The Dems always walk away with something they wanted, and the E-GOP claims it a victory that they didn't give them EVERYTHING they wanted. The GOP incompetence at this point can only be deliberate, and their hostility towards the Tea-Party movement is proof positive that they don't want to obstruct the Statist agenda of the Democrats any more than they have to.
The simple fact that they are threatening to crush the Tea Party -- not compromise, not negotiate, as they would with a Democrat, demonstrates who they think the enemy is. Once elected will they help or work with people who they see as a even bigger enemy and threat than the Left? No! and you are fool if you think that one more vote of this kind can make any difference. If the Democrats fortunes are down, they back off - because they ultimately WANT the Statist agenda to succeed.
The E-GOP is threatened by the Tea Party because the Tea Party wants to change the status quo, and end the corruption, corporate welfare, and corrupt old boys club aristocracy that the E-GOP has worked so hard to forge and create hand in hand with the Democrat party.. Their job was and is to prevent the outrage and anger of the people from turning into any real resistance in a govt chamber, to soak up and mute those votes, and they have excelled at this task -
The GOP are only a shield for the Statist agenda, and attached firmly to the arm of the Democratic party - the party of the Aristocracy, the party of totalitarians thieves- the shield serves only push liberty lovers back and hold them at bay while the Statist Agenda advances. How can anyone not see it? Do you think you can successfully attack our foe using his own shield as a weapon?
To quote Paul Maud'Dib, "He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing" - this small minority of principled conservatives and libertarians can ensure that no E-GOP candidate ever gets elected again. The Tea Party can destroy the GOP, and it must. For if this bent and twisted tool cannot be forced to serve Liberty and actually ADVANCE the goal of freedom, it is useless. We don't need a shield that at best can blunt and slow the enemy advance, we need to STOP IT and MAKE THEM RUN. And there is no point in voting for any candidate or any organization who will not do that, especially the GOP - which has proven time and again that they are too cowardly and passive to advance upon the enemy and consider those who expect them to the real danger to them. Who have proven time and again that they work for themselves, and their own power and they know that will be advanced by working in league with Democrats and the Statist Agenda- for the Tea Party, should they win, would only remove the opportunities for graft and corruption afforded them by Big Government, and they don't want to loose those. We must destroy the enemy's shield if we hope to stop them, and that shield is the GOP.
And for those who worry that there isn't time to form a new party, or that the Statists may destroy America if you don't vote GOP , can rest assured SHE HAS ALREADY BEEN DESTROYED. You cannot save her and all you can seek now in her name is vengeance. Lady Liberty is now surrounded and you must stop the enemies advance. You must turn them back, or Lady Liberty will also die, and with her mankind's last best hope.