I don't believe anyone as intelligent and rational as you are (and I mean that sincerely) would do something so utterly foolish, and harmful to this great country that we both love.
We disagree on this point, we are still headed down the road to total destruction at break neck speed.
I see conservatives as being in a dark dangerous alley in a knife fight. We have three choices, be stabbed in the chest by democrats, stabbed in the back by Republicans, or we can turn on the Republicans with a shock and awe attack that makes them fearing the possibility of their own extinction.
Conservatives are not going to come out unscratched, but putting the fear in the Republican Party might cause them to finally fight the Democrats, and that is not going to happen on the path the party is on now.
The Republican Party, a la Rove, has charted it's path away from conservatives, they make no secret of it. So look at what we have now, RINO's in the Senate holding up any small progress. It does zip to elect the RINO's that the Party obviously prefers to put forward as candidates, it is winning us nothing.
What is the Republican agenda and how much of it have they been able to implement since the elections? The Democrats don't seem to have a problem installing their agenda in short order. We can't even get megerly conservative judges passed through the Senate.
I see no profit in being a slave on the plantation with no place to else to go. I don't know what profit there is to being a hard to handle independent, but someone needs to fight for the soul of the Republican Party.
I know you are going to say I am expecting too much too soon. We have a Republican President, House and Senate, when, then, can I expect much on the critical issues?
Both parties are riding hell bent for leather over the globalist, free trade, cliff. Both parties flaunt our immigration and sovereignty and have placed us hip deep in the astronomical costs of illegals with marxists histories that hate us, and who will eventually kill our votes. Both parties have subjected us to abusive U.N. agendas regarding our E.P.A., Agenda 21, local communities, resources, private property rights, while they vote against us on international affairs. There may have been a thrill in seeing Bush tweak their nose, but that appears to be the end of it, there will be no pull out from this nest of vipers. Neither party is concerned about the hemmorage of jobs and manufacturing in the name of free trade that has left us with a growing 8 to 10% unemployment. How about some Fair Trade?
The Democrat party likes all of the above and will do nothing about it. Those few conservative in the Republican Party can't do anything about it because they have to battle both RINO's and Democrats. We are still in serious trouble and it disturbs me that so many are so content right now with the status quo. Someone should make the Republicans fear losing a vote over these critical issues, so I guess that would be me.