How many republicans have voted “yea” on democrat bills? Even Cruz voted for some doozies. Apparently when he did that he was “thinking like a democrat”.
Personally, I would be very happy to see a conservative who refused to compromise. Unfortunately, with people like boner and mitchy and other professional politicians calling the shots, a “pure” conservative will never accomplish anything.
The only hope is to get rid of the republican party completely.
Ted Cruz is a solid Constitutional conservative. If we throw him out just because he has an R after his name, it's as illogical as voting for a liberal for the same reason.
Which would solve what exactly? Some new party becomes the 2nd leg of our 2 party system and right of center voters gravitate to it in the same proportions they do the current Republican party. Your new party would still be dominated by more nominal conservatives than actual conservatives - along with anyone who simply liked Democrats less (which doesn't all mean they would even be conservative).
I mean, have you even thought this through? Are you going to try to apply a purity test to this new party?
I might make you feel good, but what would you have achieved. You'd still have all the same RINO's, they'd just be xINO's (the x being whatever the new party's name was). The center of gravity would still be the same. The Republicans lost in 92' to a spoiler 3rd party candidate and it didn't change anything in any positive way. What it did was to put Clinton in power which was particularly devastating because politically, conservatism was ascending in the 90's and with Clinton a Democrat President for 8 years he was able to stymie what could have been a far more conservative agenda. Thanks Perot voters for that!