Friendly persuasion, logic and sanity.
Worth a try!
At least the Tea party movement should be discouraging new Rhinos from running.
There's the problem. We want FRESH faces, not the same old, same old.
Why don’t Republicans and Tea party activists work together for a common cause? Obviously if we are divided the Democrats will retain the Congress and BHO will be re-elected. We know this will happen as Ross Perot’s independent candidacy helped elect Bill Clinton 1992. The Democrats and the Left are solidly united behind BHO. We must be united too if we have any chance of defeated them. Here in CA I plan on voting for Chuck DeVore in the US Senate primary. But if Carly Fiorina wins the primary, I will just as enthusiastically vote for her over Barbara Boxer any day of the week. We need to get our act together and learn from history. Third parties have only served as protest movements, and siphon off votes from the dominant parties.
No, no... we mustn't RE-take control over an existing party that already agrees with us on most things, and already has an existing and powerful apparatus to help us get done what needs to get done.
Oh, no ... instead, we must take a "principled stand," call the GOP names and pout and all that sort of crap, and relegate ourselves to irrelevance. The same idiocy, in other words, that made Ross Perot the turd in the 1992 punchbowl.
The late Sam Francis, that grumpy old pundit, used to call Republicans "The Stupid Party" for just these sorts of reasons....