You might find my recent postings on this subject pointing out that Beohner is well versed at political warfare.
Our issue is that he practices it directed at attaining and maintaining his position, not necessarily at attaining conservative goals.
With the possible except, in our lifetime, of Newt, damn few Speakers have been the best, smartest, most patriotic or honorable House members. Our conservative thinking they should be is and will likely remain a rarely attainable dream.
Gohmert nor any of the other contenders entertained thoughts they themselves might unseat Boehner directly, instead either create fissures where he fell inside the process or more simply a shot across the bow to force him to acknowledge the grass root strength in his running the House. We will now have to wait and see if the latter may have been attained.
In all honesty the whole thing was a hare brained scheme from the get go. A performance worthy of the Keystone Kops or better yet the Three Stooges IMHO.
I get that Boehner is very unpopular especially among Movement Conservatives, of which I am one. But I also understand politics and history. It is no easy feat to unseat a sitting Speaker of the House. It has rarely happened in our history. Say whatever you like about Boehner, but he is an entrenched incumbent who has been around a long time and knows where most of the bodies are buried on Capital Hill. I’m sure dozens of congressmen owe him favors.
Fact is there was no credible alternative to Boehner. I love Louie Goehmert, but he threw his hat in at the last minute and never stood a chance.
While it is not impossible to remove a sitting House Speaker, such an effort would require considerable organization, resources, focus, strategy, and unity behind a single credible opposition candidate. All of these elements were missing from the effort to unseat Boehner, therefore the effort had no real chance.