[supercat]

Losing Congress or the White House will not be a "wake-up call." These people are weak for other reasons than political popularity. They need to be convinced that they are betraying us, and/or that they are WRONG. Nothing else will accomplish much.

Which would be better: to have Congress made up of 49% liberal Democrats, 25% conservative Republicans, and 26% "Republicans" who felt they need run leftward to be and remain "electable"; or to have a Congress made up of 49% conservative Republicans, 25% liberal Democrats, and 26% "Democrats" who felt they needed to run rightward to be and remain "electable"?

I'd suggest the latter would be much preferable. Unfortunately, what we have is the former.

[California Patriot]

Your strategy would not result in a purely conservative GOP caucus. It would result in a smaller GOP caucus. The people would lose wouldn't necessarily be the RINOs. It would be some RINOs and some conservatives -- in each case, the ones with difficult districts.