To borrow a quote and change a party name from the greatest GOP POTUS to hold office I didn't leave the GOP it left me. The GOP surrender of Conservatism as a party came under Nixon by having Ford as VP who in turn appointed Rockefeller as his VP thus legitimizing the liberalism of the Republican Party.
Except for the terms of Reagan the GOP has been to the Democratic Party & liberalism what a person buying drinks is to an alcoholic meaning being an enabler. Trying to pacify liberals by giving in to them does not work. Dole, Newt, Graham, Lugar, McCain, Alexander, Snowe, Collins, Frist, Lott, to name a few in the houses and Ford, GHW Bush, GW Bush holding the POTUS position did just that.
Unless you are willing to say no to the GOP and actualy mean it even as far as to withhold your vote when the canidate is wrong and instead simply vote for the person who is in fact a Conservative {meaning in some cases a third party} then you simply give the GOP no reason or pressure to change. They know they can count on you and those like you for votes when they abandon the conservative platform.
Until the GOP once again learns to fear wrath of Conservative Voters and fears it more than it loves maintaining power by surrender to liberalism the GOP will never have reason to change.
“To borrow a quote and change a party name from the greatest GOP POTUS to hold office I didn’t leave the GOP it left me.”
Reagan moved from one of our two Party system to another. Geez put on your thinking cap. He went from a Dem to a Pub, got it? Not to a Perot-type party, not to the Libertarians, not to a Green Party (if it had existed back then), but from one of our two parties to the other. Again, if you don’t like the Pub Party, start your own or go over to another one. There are plenty to choose from. Go over to the Constitutional Party. Just go. If you aren’t willing to make your own Party more conservative from within and without hating your own Party all of the time, then it’s time you leave. Don’t let the door slam....