The Tea Party owns the GOP now.
The ruling-class RINOs just haven't figured it out yet.
The more likely scenario is the RINOs forming a third-party of RINOs.
Philosophically, but not monetarily. That's the rub.
"Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them." - Justice Joseph Story
"No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country." - Daniel Webster
"Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world." - Daniel Webster
The stakes are too high for faint hearts to prevail in the battle for liberty today. Barber's "politicians" will not preserve liberty for future generations of Americans. It will take statesmen of character and courage equivalent to that of the men of 1776 and 1787.
Where are they likely to be found? And, who will recognize and support them?
More importantly, is there time to restore to the "American mind" the ideas and principles of those individuals who first brought forth this Republic? The reference to "the American mind" is Thomas Jefferson's own description that the Declaration of Independence was a statement of the prevailing understanding of 1776.