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Then the solution for Tea Party people is... What, exactly? Not work to reform the GOP, but create their own party?

I never said that. The Tea Party movement is unlikely to make any real substantial progress unless it begins to literally take over the GOP, purge the go-along-to-get-along bunch, establish solid conservative-libertarian standards (which was endorsed by no less than Reagan himself), and campaign on a platform of REDUCED government both in size and power, INCREASED autonomy for each individual State, and the Individual as a person, fiscal RESTRAINT, i.e., the elimination of ALL foreign aid except in the case of urgent humanitarian emergency assistance, the expulsion of the U.N. from U.S. soil, and withdrawal from that nest of vipers and RE-assertion of our national sovereignty with a strict sealing of our borders to prevent illegal entry under any circumstances.

Naturally the idea of a third party, the 'Tea Party' is appealing but the last time any third party actually obtained substantial electoral success was with Governor George Wallace on the American Independent ticket in 1968.

If the Republican Party can be reconstructed as a true conservative political organization, there is hope. The time for compromise, 'bipartisanship', 'go-along-to-get-along' and playing 'Let's Make A Deal' with the 'Rat thugs across the aisle is (or should be) OVER.

In the original American revolution, only approximately one third of the population chose to actually rebel, the other two thirds were indifferent or loyalists.

This next political revolution should expect no less, and no more. But it will be enough.