I dunno if this is based on some personal experience you had, but I've never had anyone tell me to vote for a certain Republican or "get the hell out of their party". Ever. Nor have I seen that pushed widely in the media.
So many times, I've lost count.
McConnell himself said we needed to be punched in the nose for daring to primary him with Bevin, right before he set his Team Mitch minions to infiltrate the grassroots Tea Parties and take them over or wipe them out.
Then there is the countless numbers of essays and articles by Establishment hacks and party morons who have told us that Christian Social Conservatives are an embarrassment to the party and that they wish we would just get out of the party because we are dragging it down.
The contempt that the party leadership demonstrated towards us when we tried to hold their feet to the fires of campaign promises and mantras like 'repeal root and branch' was palpable and intense. Notwithstanding the countless insistences that we must hold our nose and vote for the GOP liberal because if we do not, then we are voting for Democrats or Hillary or whatever and that we are the 'enemy' and 'will be remembered when the time comes'.
I spent years under the misguided notion that we could reform the party from within, but when the rules were rewritten to ensure that could never happen - it was clear that taken in total - it was past time to kick the dust off my shoes and invest my time, money and efforts doing something new, somewhere else.