Welcome!
I agree with you on this point. The official platform of the GOP already represents what most of us here on Free Republic believe. If we form a new party, that party's platform would be essentially identical to the GOP.
The problem has been that individuals within the GOP do not adhere to the platform -- or they are just morons -- or both. So if a new party is started, how are we going to keep the same thing from happening in the new party?
What we need to do is purify the GOP. (hence my handle)
Thank you! I tried to respond to a particular poster but they had me blocked as a “troll”. Oh well, so much for political discourse. Apparently, the words “Public Relations” is lost on the staunch purists. I thought I qualified my original post with “cosmetics/PR” as opposed to “Principle”. One thing the Dems know and the GOP doesn’t get and that’s the difference of packaging and selling a platform......