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.
If the GOP nominates another unelectable squish in 2016, Cruz needs to run as an independent. Even as he would be splitting the republican vote, he would bring out conservatives, who would otherwise stay home. That would help to stem the losses down-ticket for the senate and local elections. We’d also be able to quantify the strength of the conservative component of America.