Why would a conservative want to lock the tea party out?
....mmmmmmm, because they are not a conservative???
Seems to me a time to get things rolling on a third party...
I see it as an instant boom for conservatism, because most elected officials we know would probably jump at the chance to take the “R” off their political names and put on something that allows them to really represent their constituency...
Plus, it’ll frap the moderate republican party to no end to know they’ll have to caucus with the true conservatives from a position of minority...
That’s just the way I see it...