The problem is that the GOP as a whole is so much more left-wing than it used to be. As the GOP stands now it is incompatible with the Tea Party.
Look at the 2 frontrunning candidates for the republican nomination: Romney, who is a life-long centrist RINO and Gingrich who openly supports amnesty, global warming nonsense and supported Obamacare’s personal mandate. Both are complete opportunist phonies with very few conservative values.
So right now you have a faction of conservatives in a centrist(at best) party. I also believe the Tea Party has been infiltrated by fakes and phonies who want to bring it down(ie: people like Judson Phillips who the MSM run too).
I’ll add, people are more concerned with beating Obama than having a real, principled conservative in the White House. They’ll end up with Gingrich or Romney and it will be new boss, same as the old boss and business as usual.
That is just insane! The Republican Party is far more right wing than even thirty years ago. Evry one of the candidates expresses right wing talking points even if they are unable to deliver.
Are any of themas left as Nixon, Rockefeller, McCain, or Alan K. Simpson. Please!
Every one of the candidates are expressed As ProLife. Every one says they want lower taxes, less regulation, fewer departments, and more personal liberty and responsibility.
What we must do is decide who has the best chance to move legislation when elected. Gingrich can and HAS moved legislation including four balanced budgets, Welfare reform and several other cednter-right pieces of legislation. Perry has pushed legislation, as has Romney Z(bad legislation), and Santorum. The others are great but ineffective So far.