The ol typical how would you like Hillary as president tactic.
Many Republican supporters cannot or will not face the fact that Bush has high jacked the Party and taken it forever left. Ronald Reagan said when he left the Democratic Party, that he didn't leave his party, his party left him.
The same has happened here, the leftward tilt that Bush has forced will not turn back right, ever, only more and more left. Only "moderate" Republicans have been bullied onto the ballot, over the objections of the conservative base. Now they are asking for yet another failed "Republican Revolution", only with moderates this time. (yawn) Sorry it just doesn't inspire me.
It is pitiful little comfort to conservatives for the Republican Party to survive, if conservative issues have no future in that Party, and have in fact been asked to remove themselves from the new "Big Tent". If you vote for them, your sending a message that you accept and approve of this new direction, and you may. But for me, this is a critical and more patriotic, last ditch effort, to slap them back right, if possible.
I don't think giving them what they want, while they deny my conservative agenda for another string of years and set themselves, in liberal concrete, assuming everyone is with them and approving on the band wagon headed Left is any kind of an answer.
By writing in a conservative like Tancredo I figgure I am sending them the message, "go right young man". If they don't get it, or appreciate it, too bad, for me they are a dead Party and I will not work to delay their demise.