The GOP-e don't want conservatives showing up to precinct, county, state, or the national conventions. They don't want conservatives voting in closed state primaries.
They want you registered as libertarians or Independents, so that liberals completely control the mechinations of both parties.
Because, and only because, conservatives have left the GOP, liberals now control who gets on the ballots in all 50 states. Liberals control party rules for the only two parties that will be on the ballots in all 50 states.
Liberals show up for local party functions for both parties, in sufficient numbers to run the business for both parties.
Conservatives complain after the fact that the liberals running their local GOP aren't doing it right.
Libertarians smoke dope and molest their neighbors' livestock, then stage stupid protests at the conventions of other parties.
Independents let other people run the meetings, primaries and conventions of the two major parties, then complain that their only choices are between two liberals on the two main party tickets.
And liberals win another election.
uh. look. conservatives can’t unite behind the GOP. it just hasn’t happened. so why keep beating a dead horse. the liberals are in power, nationally, anyway so there is certainly nothing to lose. so what’s your point. the GOP is glad to see us go and we’re glad to go. it’s a win win. we win because we can work at the state and county level to get trustworthy conservatives into the system as independents or whatever they can best run as.
we can, however, unite as independents, other, decline to state, etc. that may be the path to forming a true third conservative party. anyway it’s a start. it’s the path i and many of my conservative friends are taking in the lost land of ca for sure.