I remember when the likes of John McCain condemned the Tea Party.
As to a new party I am all for it. I was hoping we could change the Republican party but there are way to many RINOs.
The Republican Party once had two factions within itself, the “Stalwarts” and the “Progressives”, both trying for supremacy in the late 19th and early 20th Century. The final fissures of that split came after the 1900 election which was won by the Republican party, with William McKinley, the Stalwart, and Teddy Roosevelt, the Progressive, as President and Vice President. McKinley had the bad judgment to die from the effects of an assassin’s bullet, allowing the Vice-President, Roosevelt, to assume the Presidency within the first year of the first term. Mark Hanna, a big party boss of the Republicans of the time, was to have remarked, “Now look! That damned cowboy is President of the United States!”
The Progressives split from the Republicans about 1920, when the La Follettes of Wisconsin and Teddy Roosevelt of New York, in reaction to the Warren Harding administration that opened up the Tea Pot Dome scandal regarding petroleum reserves, that were to be held for use of the US Navy, were sold to cronies of Harding. The splintered Progressives still played at being Republicans, but they voted almost solidly with FDR in the New Deal legislation, and were finally so riddled with Communists, they dissolved as a party after the Second World War, ostensibly rejoining the Republicans, but most of them simply joined the Democrat party.
John McCain likes to think he is the intellectual heir to Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy was a LOT smarter than John McCain.