Naive, at best.
GOP elite holds off the tea partiers
April 22, 2012
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The Republican Party establishment has withstood the tea-party revolution.
The tricorne-hat wearing, Gadsden-flag waving insurgents were nowhere near the Republican National Committee’s annual meeting of state chairman, which wrapped up at a posh resort here Saturday afternoon.
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Many Republicans here said that tea-party activists now understand that things will run more smoothly if those with experience are in charge rather than those who put a premium on ideology over process.
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Not naive. Those state chairman you blame, can be replaced. They very often are.
If you can’t organize and replace those positions in the GOP, you can’t do the same thing in a third party - it’s the same work and skills.
Further, if you have a third-party, you’ll have the identical task of filling those slots with those folks you want - and the same arguments and fights.
The only difference is you have a ton of extra work for a new party that you don’t have organizing and changing an existing party.