Oh, boy.
Sounds like those 20-30 Tea Party politicians are like our Bloc Quebecois - willing to tear the country apart in order to get their own way. (Although for you, the "tear the country apart" bit is figurative.)
I don't know how you nominate candidates - can the party refuse to sign their nomination papers, so they'd have to run for re-election as independents or not run at all? At least the party would be distanced from them in that case...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Sounds like those 20-30 Tea Party politicians are like our Bloc Quebecois - willing to tear the country apart in order to get their own way. (Although for you, the "tear the country apart" bit is figurative.)
I don't know how you nominate candidates - can the party refuse to sign their nomination papers, so they'd have to run for re-election as independents or not run at all? At least the party would be distanced from them in that case...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012