The Democrat Party has from 55 to 60 million loyal voters. To be anything but a feel good exercise, a Conservative Party would have to attract at least that number. Unfortunately, there are not over 15 to 20 million conservatives of voting age and, given our nature, if we did have a separate party we would immediately began fighting about who was a real conservative and who was CINO.
The Democrat Party is the opponent and unless and until conservative, moderate, and liberal republicans accept that we have more in common with one another than with the democrats, the democrats will continue to win regardless of how many opposition parties we divide into. It is fun to discuss political issues on a narrowly defined web forum such as this, but to win a national election you must have a broad based and cohesive organization capable of competing with the real opposition. We don’t have that now thus we continue to lose.
“The Democrat Party has from 55 to 60 million loyal voters. To be anything but a feel good exercise, a Conservative Party would have to attract at least that number.”
No we do not. We just need enough congressmen, who do not answer to the GOP leadership. We do not need to match the GOP or Dems in size. We only need enough to prevent them from ever having a majority without coming to our block to cut a deal.
And when they come, we play hardball. If they try to neutralize us, we vote with the other side until they beg us to come back.
We could become brokers and paralyze them. Think of this. What if the GOP had 200 seats, the Dems had 195, and we had 40.
If the GOP acted nasty, we could even threaten to join with the dems to have a dem speaker that WE selected.
We could leverage a handful of congressmen into a lot of power. Both sides would come begging. It would be merry hell.