As I said it’s deluded. The Libertarian Party has been a third party for 40 years and has made little progress. The GOP is part of the two party system in people’s mind - for better or worse - and has all the infrastructure in place. Take it over at a local level. Everything else is a distraction.
Judging by the tone of consumer comments on MSM news sites, the GOP is nearly equally contemptible as the "liberal" side in "people's mind."
"People" sneer at liberalism as much as they do at "stupid Republicans."
Risk is the price you pay for opportunity.
Your mindset is that going third party is too big a risk; less risk is to remain with the GOP. Hence less opportunity, as the GOP remains fixed in people's minds as about as bent on more and bigger government, as the Democrat party. A balance of Americans is thinking, "screw both of 'em."
VOTE WISE, however, decades of ginning and manipulation have leveraged a minority into elected representation. MSM and pop culture representation parallel each other, two minor factors, smaller groups, look bigger, while the larger balance of Americans, ignored and invisible inn the MSM and pop culture, as well as often frauded out of representation in political and elected venues. What's happening here is what happens when a minority attempts to enforce its will on the majority. This is what the Founders ultimately sought to neutralize with the Constitution.
And so it woul be neutralized if we Americans regained and guarded the integrity of the voting franchise. That's where it starts.
And seeing as how "the two party system" is absolutely in "people's mind - for better or worse" pretty much "one is as bad as the other," it may also be the exactly correct timing for a third party.
FRiend, as long as liberals are anywhere near leadership in the party, as they are in the GOP, then the GOP is the wrong party. Obama isn't the enemy. Liberalism is the enemy. Romney's defeat proves that more Americans understand this than not.