I don’t think a 3rd party is the solution. It’s easier, but I don’t think it will work.
We must destroy the establishment from the inside and take over the party.
There are many ways to do this but we can start by exposing the GOP establishment as Liberals in golf pants. On a more direct level we need to hound them endlessly through phone calls, mails and election tactics that expose the fact that these people are bought and paid for by the SAME groups that own the Democrats. The Tea Party movement has already created most of the needed infrastructure to do this.
It could be very powerful in a Parliamentary system, but, in the American system, we would have no more power outside the Republican Party than we currently have today, inside the Republican Party.
Re: “We must destroy the establishment from the inside and take over the party.”
I don't think that would work, either.
Almost everyone at Free Republic seems to believe that the GOP leadership and our major candidates are motivated by their character flaws.
I disagree.
I think almost everyone in the Republican Party is guided by political principles.
The problem is that Boehner, McConnell, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Reince Priebus, and close to half of the Republican Party are guided by Center-Left principles!