Plenty of Party whores on the state and national level machine will gladly step in to fill the "obligation" gap.

Rushlake hit the nail on the head.

The MIaGOP, I think, definitely hates the TEA Party and will never give us anything but Romney, Snyder, Hoaxtra, and those on the wall of shame. Some choices.

Indeed.  It's all about the destruction of the TEA movement, either by discrediting it or infiltration by establishment players and power brokers on the Right and the Left.

"Penny Pincher's" for  TARPstra.  Thesaurus McCotter.