The problem is far greater than you imagine - you need total organization in all 50 states, complete with full party registration, full party membership that runs well into the millions of members.
You can't create that fast enough, and there are too many tea party members working to build the GOP up from the bottom to stop them from doing that and get them to start all over again.
That was a disaster for another reason. Since Clinton was in the White House when Ecommerce and Y2K created all of those tech jobs, he got the credit. Even now, many Americans still give Clinton credit for that boom, even though it would have happened regardless of who was President. As a result, we're still fighting against the memory of "Clinton's economy".
You don’t need an organization in all 50 states. You need to think about this a bit more cleverly than that.
For example, you’re never going to take NY, NJ, MA, CA, WA, OR, HI, RI, CT, etc. Don’t even bother with those states at first.
If you want to attract the attention of the GOP and make them come to the table, then you need only create a party to give them competition in states where they’ve taken people for granted. Wyoming is a great example - no one even wonders whether or not WY will go GOP - it is just assumed, no matter what.
Well, what happens when they can’t count on those three electoral votes? Or the EV’s from other “dependable” GOP states? Suddenly, their presidential aspirations go up in smoke. They have to deal.
People need to start thinking more creatively about how to make these people come to heel.