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I didn't think the citizens of VA would have the courage to vote for a conservative.

While I understand the anger and agree somewhat with a new party, a 3rd party will continue to ensure Democratic victory. In the case of VA, where an Obama bundler footed the bill for the “Libertarian” candidate, then you would have the vote split 4 ways. Dems, Rep, Lib and Tea Party....Tell me how this will create a victory for the Tea party candidate?

Let's say you have two guys that are boxing. The guy we're rooting for says the right things he needs to say to get in the ring. But once he's in the ring he's a terrible fighter. He even throws the fights once in a while.

The other guy is a true believer. He's got our guy convinced that he's a good guy and that it doesn't matter which one of them wins...yet he will fight tooth and nail to actually win.

Our guy is going to lose every single time. Every time.

Now let's throw a third guy in there. Now the true believer actually has someone fighting against him. But the 3rd guy also has to put up with his own guy punching him in the face. "Our" guy STILL is a loser. He's still not going to win.

The point is that we're idiots if we keep rooting for a guy that we KNOW is going to lose.

The Republican party is DONE with conservatism. Done. I'm beginning to think that they've always been against conservatism. Reagan was a throwback. An embarrassment. They only keep us around because we'll cheer for their guy when it matters.

While I understand the anger and agree somewhat with a new party, a 3rd party will continue to ensure Democratic victory. In the case of VA, where an Obama bundler footed the bill for the “Libertarian” candidate, then you would have the vote split 4 ways. Dems, Rep, Lib and Tea Party....Tell me how this will create a victory for the Tea party candidate?

This is also a wake up call that the fight will not be fair. This occurred in 2010 with Murkowski losing the primary and then running as a write-in candidate. So, if they lose the primary, they may still run in the election. If they don't have someone that can win the primary or something like a write-in campaign, they will throw a "Libertarian" in there.

IOW, we may decide to fight the proper fight by taking back the Republican Party through the primary process, but the GOPe and their Democrat buddies will throw other monkey-wrenches into the works.

The only way I see to combat this is to take back BOTH parties. Run candidates in BOTH primaries!