Great ideas for those who have the discretionary time and dollars---but I don't.
Fourth, realize that politics is the art of the possible and that pure ideology is not really possible in any organization--not even a family of three always has pure unadulterated agreement all of the time.
If Reagan could win on a platform of abolishing the Department of Education, Dubya can do a lot better than $400 billion more for Medicare and coddling for illegal aliens.
Fifth, write (don't just email or call) your Senators and representatives in Congress. Sixth, write your state legislators who probably have more access to the feds than you do: when state legislators speak to them, they'll be saying the same thing about constituent attitudes that the feds see.
Good ideas---but IMO nothing speaks louder than a vote.
Seventh, pray for the people making decisions.
I plan to pray as if everything depended on Him and vote as if everything depended on me.
But you've got time to bitch and moan on an internet message board. I get it.
If something is important you'll MAKE the time. Giving up on the most conservative of the two electable parties is cowardly, in my opinion. Such actions aren't "bitter medicine" for the leadership; indeed, RINOs like Lincoln Chaffee would probably be happy with you leaving the party, so their influence within it can grow.
This party is indeed big enough to sustain internal debate and strife, but throwing up ones hands and walking away is to leave this country to the wolves of the Democrat Party Operatives. And no one should wish that fate to befall our citizens.