Don’t go third party. That will only split the vote on the right. Instead, take the GOP back from the linguine spine “moderates” and make it into a true alternative to the ‘Rats instead of just the “me, too, but not quite so fast” party.
Vote for the same, get the same.
Look how many flocked to McCain after he won the primaries. [It still wasn’t enough for him to win, but it showed that party is more important to many than substance. McCain had an R after his name. That was enough for many to vote for him.]
So, what conservatives in the GOP leadership have influence with the party? Few, if any. Most are big-business/country-club republicans who have been ‘selling’ us down this river for a long time.
Is Palin the answer? Not if she cannot wrestle control away from the big-tent-ers.
Without a serious change to the right, the GOP is going to remain the minority party for a long time — and the leadership seems to not mind all that much at being in the minority.
And just because Obama is bumbling along at present does NOT mean he may not recover enough to salvage 2010 candidates and even pull out a 2nd term in 2012 for himself.
What’s needed is a conservative organization, independent of the RNC RINOs, which will recruit good conservative candidates and support them in the Primaries. We don’t need a third party, we need to take back the Republican Party.