Sounds like a second amendment solution is needed there.
Seriously though, they are targeting every elected Repub who breaks ranks with a Primary challenger. They don't have to replace every candidate at every level, they just need the individual candidates to think they will challenge them. The GOP is seeing the Prisoners Dilemma play out within their own party. If the non crazy guys held together then the Tea Guys couldn't take over, but if even one breaks ranks and falls in line with the crazies, then the rest have to as well because suddenly they are vulnerable. Oh, and the pockets of the guys backing them are deep. The rank and file are just canon fodder and whipped up morons, the guys bankrolling them like Kochs are running the show.
Irony is, the way the GOP have hyper-gerrymandered their backyards has actually made it easier for an internal primary challenger to unseat a sitting GOPer than a straight up real election. The Tea Party guy is in and the moderate (if there is such a thing as a moderate GOPer) is out before it even gets to the electorate.
Re: Republican /=/ Racist Homophobic Tea Partier
Seriously though, they are targeting every elected Repub who breaks ranks with a Primary challenger. They don't have to replace every candidate at every level, they just need the individual candidates to think they will challenge them. The GOP is seeing the Prisoners Dilemma play out within their own party. If the non crazy guys held together then the Tea Guys couldn't take over, but if even one breaks ranks and falls in line with the crazies, then the rest have to as well because suddenly they are vulnerable. Oh, and the pockets of the guys backing them are deep. The rank and file are just canon fodder and whipped up morons, the guys bankrolling them like Kochs are running the show.
Irony is, the way the GOP have hyper-gerrymandered their backyards has actually made it easier for an internal primary challenger to unseat a sitting GOPer than a straight up real election. The Tea Party guy is in and the moderate (if there is such a thing as a moderate GOPer) is out before it even gets to the electorate.