You cannot hold someone's feet to the fire if you have nothing to back it up. Holding politicians feet to the fire envolves the threat of not voting for them. If we continue to vote for them regardless of their actions then we are not "holding their feet to the fire", we are wimping out because of fear. Vote third party.
If enough conservatives vote third party they will get the hint. If we lose some seats so be it. The best thing to happen would be if a large percentage of conservatives suddenly found the wool off their eyes and voted for, or formed their own, third party. We need one desparately in this country, or soon we will all be subjects and not citizens.
Fair enough. But we'd have to be willing to lose several elections to the Dems while the Republican coalition fractured and was rebuilt, and hope to God that whatever other party comes along doesn't fall victim to the same tone-deafness and cronyism the major parties have.