Which is exactly what I pointed out. THERE HAS NEVER, YET, BEEN A SEPARATE TEA PARTY CANDIDATE WIN AN ELECTED OFFICE. They have ALL run as Republicans, Tea Party Republicans.
I welcome the day that the Tea Party, or some other conservative alternative, absolutely buries the GOP for good. Until that time, the two-party system is what we have to work with. And, at this time, it is the Republican and Democrat Parties.
There has never been a Tea Party candidate YET, because the Tea Party continues to call itself a grass roots movement and NOT a political party.
THUS, my suggestion that we STOP giving ANY money to the RNC and put pressure on the Tea Party to register as a formal political party.
I’m not as dumb as you seem to think. I KNOW that the Tea Party candidates we elect have to run as “Republicans” because the Tea Party is not an official, formally recognized or registered political party. If we push them, they will probably register, hopefully before the next election (assuming that there will BE a next election!).