I'm in line with most of what you said, right down to "morans".
I was thinking we need 200 more of these "morons", not "politically gutted from the right"--they ARE the right.
Status quo is the left, imo.
They aren't destroying Conservatism, they're defining it.
It would be an entirely different story if we did have 200 more of them. But we don't, and I think this gets us further away from that rather than closer.
I'll also add this -- I don't think we're ever going to get 200+ hardcore conservatives in Congress, but we might one day muster 120 or so. And if we did, and the conference voted for a truly conservative speaker, but he was sabotaged by a group of 20 RINOs who refused to vote for a conservative, what would our reaction be?
This kind of crap has a way of coming around and biting you in the keister. The reason you support the conference choice isn't because he's the preferred guy, but because you hope one day to have the conference choose a conservative Speaker, and you'd want the rest of the conference to back
that choice. This pretty much guarantees that the rest of the conference is going to be looking for payback if a conservative ever manages to win the conference speaker vote.