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I’m close to leaving myself. But the closed primary situation and two good senators and a decent governor in my state is what keeps me around. However, there isn’t much to vote for here in the state of Kansas that isn’t general election. The primaries are really for local races mostly. I guess you have to be a member of the GOP to vote in them anyways. But the senate race is generally always going for the republican. Sometimes they get heated in the primary but not often.

In my area the House is a messy situation like the presidential race. So it is always down to a rino or Democrat. I guess we did the best we could up here in Overland Park in 2010. But my candidate lost the primary for the house. It was the western half of the state that pulled the guy I wanted for Senate to victory and he is one of five people in the tea party caucus run By Jim DeMint.

Look I want to leave the GOP but I am not sure to what or to whom and I want to vote in primaries for now the help tea party candidates. But as things go downhill more I will leave. It is really a wait and see for me as to what happens. I want to leave, but I can’t. Keep hearing stories of unaffiliated people not being allowed to vote in the GOP primary. But that is the catch for me. The primary will be meaningless when conservatives start another party or just join something else. But then they would have to start running for congress and local elections.

I look at things this way. I'm not interested in suicide missions or look at me things that go nowhere. It is, was, and always will be a two party system here with 3rd parties as a protest vote at best. New York's the only exception with the fusion system. No 3rd party is going to win a majority or plurality of anything anytime soon.

I'm a Republican because it's the best we got. Party leadership here is elected. IF 5% of those who complained got involved and worked to change things, things would get done. For all the people that complain about RINOs, people vote for them or don't run primaries against them. We had an absolutely awful one here in Joe Schwarz. He got fired. I helped do it. Tim Walberg is a good rep most of the time. I don't get 100% from him, but I get about 80-90%

I'm staying involved in party matters and doing my best to make sure good people are in leadership and good people win primaries. We got a long ways to go, but the Schwarzes and Millikens have been nobodies for a long time here. That's an improvement.