Well, excusing yourself from the process is going to lead things in exactly the direction that you are decrying. The politician’s support will be found more and more in the middle, those purist conservatives having long walked away.
Give me a break. I'm not going to squander my life's work to try to convince knuckleheads , some just like you, that the Republican Party is a closed club accessible only to the very rich or very GOPe.
Gov. Bruce Rauner is a billionaire, yep billionaire. Try it if you're not.
Wake up.