[Paladin2]

The GOP is already split into TEA Party supporters and RINOs.

The RINOs have been running their candidate for POTUS for so long that the TEA Partiers are unlikely to support a RINO candidate again. Doomed to failure he is. To win the RINOs need to sit in the back of the bus and let someone else drive for a Change.

[SMARTY]

Exactly! There is no time left for fine distinctions about the KIND of Conservatism practiced by THIS RINO or THAT RINO. They consistently prove themselves to be too compliant with DC Liberals.

The Tea Party Conservatives have basically invalidated the RNC and I don't think GOP ‘establishment’ Republicans can reinvent themselves in time to field a candidate the Tea Party will accept.