"A day of reckoning" such as what?
Electing somebody to the Left of Barack Hussein Obama to the Oval Office?
Giving extreme Left-winger Nancy Pelosi the House majority again?
Cutting off your nose to spite your face?
Do you really think that any politician has a real loyalty to a name such as "The Republican Party" any more than Brett Favre has a loyalty to a name such as "The Green Bay Packers"?
"Parties" are merely labels after a name on a ballot. The party label means absolutely nothing. What does isolationist "Republican" Ron Paul have in common with a defense hawk "Republican"?
In the Real World, the local political bosses and ardent Nazi Party members in eastern Germany in 1944 merely exchanged their Party Cards and became local political bosses and ardent Communist Party members in 1946 after the Red Army tanks rolled in.
In the Real World, a party label is not worth a single sheet of toilet paper to a politician after the political landscape changes and endangers his political survival.
In the USA, "Parties" do not elect candidates in the primary elections or in the general elections.
"Voters" do.
This is how the American voters break down as of last September, 2010:
So, there you, are complaining that, in a country where 66.9% of all voter are to the Left of the voters who call themselves "Republicans", the voters who call themselves Republicans, as a whole, are just not conservative enough for you.
So what do you want to do?
"Vote third party" so that the vote of the "Voters Against the Extreme Left" (which includes Conservatives, centrist Democrats, Independents and the hated RINO's) are split so that the Extreme Left succeeds in getting Barack Husseon Obama reelected again?
"Either the Republicans nominate somebody just as Conservative as I am or I will help extreme-Left Barack Hussein Obama get re-elected by voting Third Party!!!"
"Either my way or I am going to hold my breath until I die!!!"
Sometimes I fear that America has become too childish to survive the 21st Century.
"The US electoral process is probably dead. Both parties skew Left, one more than the other. Neither party supports the Constitution. Voting appears to be a waste of time, as political change (toward the Left) seems to come about no matter who is elected. It is not too late -- the GOP establishment could still support some true Conservative for president. But, if that sort of support is not forthcoming, then any vote is a joke. The only hope then, would be in revolution. And one could argue that revolution would get here faster if we all vote for Obama's second term."
I'm hoping to vote for someone like Palin. And, yup, voting for Obama is one of my fallback positions.
Those who don't like it can bite me.
And too bad most Republican officeholders, Republican media/pundits, and even Repub voters are not as passionate about defeating the leftwing commies and their MSM who have had their way with the US for the last 40 years.
No, the Republican Party has been more concerned with kissing MSM and Democrat arse instead.
And any real battling they do is AGAINST Conservatives! They are marginalizing Conservatives on TV and in print daily.
Not to mention their historical handling of Conservatives who are being raped daily by the Dems and their media, ie, throwing them under the bus.
This has been going on for decades.
Why do you think there are so many Rinos in office? And so few Conservatives?
Because Republican voters put them there.
They put them there because those were the candidates who were “clean”, and untouched by the MSM. Those are the candidates that the RNC and Republican media/pundits defend.
And why are they clean and untouched?
Because they are NOT Conservative fighters.
Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
Year after year.