I left a few years ago...the writing was on the wall...the GOP are a bunch of greedy morons.
Bring on the Liberty Party!
Only the demise of the GOP will bring meaningful change. I support an obstructionist third party. Where is it?
I left in 1996. I am still a registered Republican, but I haven’t voted for a guy since 1984. We’ve been thirty freaking years in the wilderness.
The guys in the GOPe chain of command, are blithering idiots. The party of Lincoln has become the party of stinkin’.
I left the party exactly three years ago this month. I'm right at the point of history where I'm teaching this topic to my 8th graders. When George Washington left office, on his own accord after two terms (a tradition that held until FDR -- a Democrat) he told America that there were two things that we as a nation must avoid like the plague.
#1. Foreign entanglement and alliances.
#2. Political parties.
We paid attention to the former for over 100 years, until Woodrow Wilson (another Democrat) dragged us into an utterly useless war where we weren't even needed for a positive outcome. An in a single year during the end of WWI, we lost over 100,000 troops. For nothing.
But it seems we had our skulls firmly inserted into the fourth point of contact concerning the latter admonition. Political parties emerged almost immediately.
Don't kid yourself that we will EVER be embracing any third party. Ain't gonna happen. The only thing any 3rd party is good for is to act as a spoiler. The only hope we have to avoid constant wins by RINOs is to allow the party to self destruct totally and try and rebuild a more conservative GOP in the interim time between election cycles.