The Republican brand has already been destroyed for years, and the party can thank George "I Love Big Government" W. Bush (and others like him) for that.
They would see the Presidential and the vice Presidential candidates of the Republican party at each others throats
McCain spent years attacking the Republican Party, something that improved his image in front of the liberal half of the American electorate.
Oh, wait, that wasn't what you meant...
Palin’s image would have never survived, and the entire national, conservative movement would be weaker in reality and in the public’s eye.
That excuse is as pathetic as Bush's excuse for the bailouts: he had to "destroy capitalism to save it."
If you keep endorsing Socialism to save conservatism, in the end, all you will have is Socialism.
Only a Ron Paul goofball like you that seems to know very little about politics, could ignore one of the most successful elections in American history by either party, that was the Republican sweep in 2010. The “destroyed party”.