I absolutely agree that we need a way for Tea Partiers to organize around one single candidate for the primaries.
The only problem I see is how do you restrict voting to actual Tea Partiers?
There’s not even an actual Tea Party political organization, so what’s to stop every Democrat and GOPe supporter from voting for Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton or whomever.
It would be like one big open Republican primary.
The only way I could see Tea Partiers voting for the same candidate would be if Ted Cruz threw his hat in the ring, or Sarah Palin.
Just as is done for the emerging Article V Convention of States, Tea Party organizations can reach out to each other to select Tea Party delegates to participate in a national convention. I think the processing of selecting Tea Party delegates would impede RINO infiltration, don’t you agree?
Yes, that is the challenge.
But resolving that and going this route is IMO critical.
With early, coordinated endorsement of a real conservative through the primaries—and having at least some level of national vote before the primaries to further ensure cohesive backing—key for 2016.
Then, if that doesn’t work, the tea party apparatus will be in place to challenge and replace the GOP in 2020.
2016 is the GOP’s last chance, and we owe it to give our coordinated best to take it back if we can. Given how the GOP is handcuffed when it comes to defending the sanctity of the voting booth, it may be just as well if it is replaced even if the tea party strategy manages to prevail in 2016. (How much better can it get for replacing the GOP than having a GOP/tea party president, senate and house at the time?)
What if it was required that your vote was accompanied by a $20 donation to whoever is the eventual winner? It would be no different than a "campaign bundler" except you don't know exactly who your donation is ultimately going to at the time you make it.
70 million people X $20 = not exactly chump change
This would prevent non-tea party folks from participating.
How about make it a regional thing? New England, the southeast, NY/NJ/PA area, etc.