The key here is "our own party". Because that is what will happen when each of us insists on the Highest Standards of Purity in our chosen political party --- we will realize that the only way to be completely true to ourselves is for each of us to create and play in our own POOP (Party Of One Person). We must refuse to associate politically with anyone whose entire set of political stands doesn't exactly match our own.
For example: Does your wife agree with you 100% on immigration, gun rights, taxes, govt spending, gay marriage, Big Govt, Big Labor, Big Green, defense, capital punishment, and the Constitution? But she mistakenly believes life begins at implantation while you know it begins minutes earlier at fertilization, making you more ProLife than her? Then NO WAY can she be allowed to join your Very Own Political Party Of One and dilute its purity! She must file papers to establish her own POOP.
Remember those ancient words of wisdom:
"Have you ever noticed how anyone who drives slower than you is a jerk, and anyone who drives faster than you is a maniac?"
That is soooooo true! Nobody else drives exactly like you do, therefore you're the only Pure Driver in the world; and never forget that! This same valuable lesson applies to Political Purity as well.
"United We Fall, Divided We Stand."
OMG! You just wrote almost exactly what I wrote on another thread. A house divided cannot stand and conservatives are surely divided. When no one is good enough for us guess what we get? Barack Obama.
If you are willing to surrender your core principles for political expedience, and then suggest those who refuse to capitulate theirs are a worse evil than those in whom we are opposed, then your party and the nation are no longer worth saving or exerting any effort for us to save because you are compatriots with tyrants.
That was inane.
You miss the point completely-—there is no party now where we can stand united.
The GOP was it.
emphasis on “was”.