I understand the sentiment. I feel your pain. But many many mistakes and many false connections of dots in your analysis - and you forget the main point: third parties are like virgins. Once they are consummated, they are no longer pure either.
And another point: there are many folks still in the party who hate the party establishment just as much as you do.
Read my post again. I never said this was about purity; this is drawing a line in the sand that we won’t cross no matter what. I would have been perfectly fine voting for Rick Santorum because I believe he’s a true social conservative, just as I would have been fine voting for Newt Gingrich because I believe he’s a fiscal conservative due to his flat tax plan.
The party-line Republicans who claim hate the establishment will never lift a finger against them.