If the GOP truly wants to defeat themselves, they should pass amnesty.
They do, and they will. I think it is the perks they like, not serving their base. I think many of them have good friends who are rats. They are the enemy. I do not have any rat friends. I do not associate with them.
The GOP-Elites do not have to pass amnesty, they only need to say they are in favor of it, and that would absolutely assure maximum turnout of T.E.A. party people at the polls - to defeat them in the primaries.
There is not, and never has been, a place for two liberal Democrat parties in America. But there obviously is a place for a conservative party. A balanced ecological system demands it.