A third party would not work, period. The Republican party was once ours and we have let the moderate boneheads take it from us. Now they are just being bullies. We should quit bickering amongst ourselves and confront them.
Exactly. I can't think of anything more detrimental to the future of conservatism than splitting off and forming a third party. Those advocating it are the ENEMIES of conservatism, as far as I'm concerned. They'd do more damage to the country than the RINOs.
Why does it never occur to people that if conservatives are going to get organised, why not do it within the Party apparatus where most conservatives already at least nominally exist? The answer is not some ego trip third party by Rush or by Chuck Baldwin or Howard Phillips or whoever. The answer is to do the hard work of reconquering the GOP for conservatism. It can be done, if conservatives would just be willing to get their hands dirty.
But that's the problem - most conservatives, even a lot of these hard-shell FReepers - are simply too lazy to even try to get the job done.