If you’ve not done your patriotic duty and run from the GOP yet, you ARE the problem.
To get on the ballot, many Tea Partiers have to run as Republicans. The Tea Party is not big enough yet to run independently in most States. I do not give to any Republican Funds, but will give to individual candidates that I hope are really conservatives. I want to vote in the primaries against the RINOs. Not every state allows open primaries. In fact I wish they didn't have open primaries, since the Democrats will often vote in the Republican primaries to skew the results to the left.