Recent history backs up this assertion. It's not that we want expect to "jolt the public" with a democrat - the idea is to show Republicans that they have to actually govern as conservatives to get elected.
If Democrat-Lite Republicans in conservative states start getting knocked off then the rest of them will learn their lesson.
The policy you advocate is akin to a wife not upsetting her abusive husband for fear that he will get even more abusive.
The policy you advocate is akin to a wife not upsetting her abusive husband for fear that he will get even more abusive.
Well, in getting all hot over replacing Republicans with Democrats, you remind me of those "Christians" who pray that their enemies get punished only to have the tornado blow by and knock down YOUR house.
It's even more simple than that.
Power comes from elections. Candidates who become Members gain power from the People.
When they abuse their power, especially when it is shown that they have lied to gain it, it's very important for their power to be taken away.
That taking away the power of these fraudulent "republicans" involves the election of Democrats is very unfortunate, but, ces't la guerre.
To fail to punish the current majority for their defalcations is a repudiation of republicanism and the principles on which this country is founded.
And to permit this majority to go on, with their bloated staffs and their anti-constitutional agenda, is to delay the emergence in this nation of a real opposition.
"You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!"
You can teach the "rest of" the RINOs all you want. But if the electorate continues to get drunk from pork and pandering from RINOs and liberals alike, then as time goes on, true conervatives will be more scarce, and more difficult to elect.
In short, if you have no strategy to force incumbent RINOs to vote more conservatively, then you have no strategy to convince the electorate to vote for more conservative candidates, either.