Talk about low self-esteem. You think the GOP needs both houses and the presidency in order to make strides? Hell, the democrats have been making strides year after year, whether they owned a majority or not. They could only do that because the GOP and the DNC march in lockstep on principle. It is only in means and speed of implementation where they differ.
The first principle of any party apparatus is to perpetuate itself. It is up to the electorate to move a party in a particular direction and it is up to the individual to organize and to sway the party and the electorate.
It makes no sense for a freedom thinker to leave a party -- the R party -- where most Freedom thinking people are concentrated. That would only cause a dilution of the Freedom thinkers as they tranverse party lines.
The problem is not the party -- the problem is the electorate and the solution lies with the indiviudal to change the R party and the electorate using the powers of the already entrenched Freedom thinking people in the R party.
For how amny years did the Dems run both or at least the Senate and the White House, in the last 60 + years ? Don't attempt refutation, with solophistic, spurious demogogeray. I may have been born at night; but, it certainly wasn't last night. Pull that garbage on those whp don't know much; that won't wash with me. :-)