I listened to Mark the other night and I’d have to say that I don’t know what took him so long. The RNC has become so predictable that they play us over and over every election. I praise God for Cruz, Mike Lee, Jeff Sessions and a few others, but the rest of them leave me feeling there is no hope. Not that there ever is any hope in a political solution, just that you want to see a greater number of these people who see the problem, understand the base wants a return to Constitutional government and work hard to do their job. What we see from so many is the LIES. Yes, they are “promises”, but lest we forget, they are bald-faced lies they never intended to keep.
I listen to him nightly, either live or via the podcast. I think Mr. Levin, like many of us, recognizes the Catch-22 nature of leaving the - choke - Republican party at a time when it's critical to defeat the left and salvage what's left of our Constitution.
I'm confident that he would embrace a 3rd party that featured leaders like Palin, Cruz, Lee, Jeff Sessions, Michele Bachmann, et al. I would, and I'd become a contributor. But the reality in my head says that it would be several election cycles before such a party would either gain traction or disappear into irrelevance.
The reality I see is that it would amount to a dilution of the only party that we have any chance of beating the left, combined with an undefined number of independents.
Recent trends show the country tacking more & more conservative, but the support for Jug Ears remains around the 40% mark. That leaves 60% up for grabs among the other parties. I'm not seeing either the Republican or a conservative alternative beat the left's constant 40%.
I'm just as tired as anyone of holding my nose in the voting booth, and don't know how many more times I can do it, although the next media/GOPe-foisted presidential candidate just may force my hand in 2016.