You don't understand; this is the part of the party that has been rebuked since 1996; we're not going to have another Pat Buchanan representing us and they can't take it.
So their soluation is to hang around the GOP and try to destroy it from within; their thinking is that if they can cause a big enough GOP defeat, in our dispair, we will once again turn to them to save the GOP.
They'd actually rather turn this country over to the Democrats than "compromise."
See, it would "teach us a lesson."
Oh I know, they are DELUDED if they think we will get just a little spanking if their little temper tantrums win.