Members of the party that follow every thing BUT the party platform such as the majority of those currently in office, can hardly be called ‘Republican’ in the traditional sense.
They can either continue ignoring that platform and thus continue their effective merger with the Dems or stand for something and purge. Many of us might come back to ‘the fold’ if they did.
What is ‘Republican’ in the traditional sense? The nasty WHIG Mercantilist Lincoln that destroyed the Constitituional Republic or the Progressive Big Gov Manic-Depressive Teddy Roosevelt who kicked off the Empire or the EPA/Red China opening Nixon or the Bush Compassionate fools? The History of the Republican Party is mostly filled with the wrong type of people and really the anti-Tea Party Party as much as the Leftist Party.