There are many trolls that come on this site and Preach this dogma. Many conservatives thought they would teach the Republicans a lesson in 2006 and the result was that Democrats took control of both the house and the senate and crippled any further Bush initiatives and blocked all appointments to judgeships or commissions such as the NLRB.
Again in 2008 the trolls and the crackpots urged us to teach the Republicans another lesson in conservatism. The result was Obama, the most corrupt administration this side of Hugo Chavez. Now we also have a Supreme Court being populated with out and out socialists who will be with us for decades. The country is being destroyed right before our eyes. We are headed to third world status.
So if you think you are exercising you guts, I suggest that you try to use a little common sense. Or maybe go back to the Democratic Underground.
When you turn the wheel on your car to make a right hand turn, you are not doing it to teach the car a lesson.
When sailors climbed into the rigging of sailing ships and messed with sails to change the tack of the ship, they weren't doing it to teach the ship a lesson.
Like you turning the wheel on the car, they were doing it to change the direction of forward movement.
What does "teaching a lesson" have to do with it?
How do you suggest changing the course of the foundering GOP ship?