Ronald Reagan once said that he did not leave the Democrat Party, the Democrat Party left him. However, he still had a major party to his right to move to.
If the GOP continues to tell conservatives to pound sand because there is no major party to the right of the GOP, and conservatives continue to accept that, then they will become like black voters within the Dems - voters who pull the levers no matter how often the national party sells out their core issues.
So unless the GOP decides to curtail spending and make a serious effort to address illegal immigration, among other matters, the only real solution is to start to threaten the GOP with first staying home in 2006, and then forming a new party in 2008 if they don't get the message in 2006.
No hope. Vote for a more conservative government - vote for gridlock.
There are Wall Street Republicans [Bush] and Main Street Republicans [Reagan]. The port fiasco where Bush sets out a corollary to his earlier Iraq 'all Muslims are terrorists' now an 'investor exception'. Bush is in the Wall Street camp.
The basic problem is that the people in charge of the GOP have given the personality cult of Dubya priority over actual small-government conservative principles.