What would the Republican party look like if....the Tea Party pulls out...
what it looked like when McCain /Palin got their ass handed to them?
Don't think you can blame the Tea Party for that one. What did the Party look like when Romney/Ryan got their ass handed to them?
your question was what would it look like without the tea party. The tea party was mostly a Ron Paul collection until after that election.
Which begs the question of what would the GOP do without the Tea Party? And/or the Evangelicals?
A real threat of total destruction by a coalition of Conservatives.
Who would blink first?
It is going to take a real threat of destruction to save the GOP.
To add...shots are being fired already... Sen. Ted Cruz on Thursday took a thinly veiled shot at Jeb Bush, saying that Republicans will ensure a Hillary Clinton presidency if they run a more moderate candidate in 2016.
Appearing on CNBC, the Texas Republican and tea party favorite was asked about Bush and said that presidential candidates from the party�s establishment wing � like Arizona Sen. John McCain in 2008 and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in 2012 � consistently fail to turn out millions of voters.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/ted-cruz-jeb-bush-hillary-clinton-112349.html#ixzz3HdzV01Xh