0 disaster in my lifetime, if i can ever remember a time when a political party just made a decision not to exist. congressman tim huelskamp told the washington post, we ll be looking for any opportunity. we took a shot at it and we fell short. i think we re waiting around for another battle over obama care. meanwhile, conservative blogger eric erickson said conservatives should pick off so-called moderates in the gop. quote, the last time the major leaders of an american political party tried to compromise their way to party, the party broke apart giving way to republicans. this fight too will break apart the gop. there will be a fundamentally altered party of new faces. never before have the people seemed less dependent on a party apparatus to play in primaries. over the issue of secession. that was particularly the democratic party that came from that. but this idea that our job is to basically take over and alter a major political party, take the party of lincoln and use the na