At this point, I want nothing further to do with Republican party, but your question is perfectly fair.
No, I’ve never been a PCP for the Republican party. But I have written countless letters to my CONgress critters, placed countless phone calls to them, written countless blogs, been to Tea party rallies and all the rest. I’ve gotten friends and family to to vote GOP, and I have no problem whatsoever preaching about Conservative values to complete strangers.
The problem is this: The Republican party is not a Conservative party. It ceased being a Conservative party when it made its peace with the New Deal, to paraphrase Buckley. As far as I can tell, the only thing it wants to is run the federal bureaucracy better than the Dhimmicrats.
That’s not good enough. It has never been good enough. Either they support the Constitution or they don’t. There are no grey areas on this.
Do you know the PCP in your neighborhood?