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Well, what do you propose?

I hope this isn't your way of implying that resistance is futile. Only sycophants and other slaves think that way.

But since you ask -- the first step is to admit that we have our problems: that the GOP has failed us and that our battered wife response to a party that we continue to love even though it abuses and humiliates us is futile and destructive.

Now -- since the status quo is obviously not moving the ball for conservatives -- what do you propose?

...GOP has failed us...

How do you know that the GOP isn't just trying to strike a balance between what its rightwing base wants and what the general electorate wants?

Remember, a plurality of the electorate vote for the dead-tree -- do you remember that?!

You do know the Pubbies have to win primaries to get to the general election don't you? What you need to do is persuade a majority of Pubbie primary voters to abandon their pragmatic moderate centrist conservatism, or get the center of gravity of the nation as a whole in politics move your way. Absent that, one is just a rather ineffectual and whining kibbitzer.

As a matter of full disclosure, in general I am a "pragmatic moderate centrist conservative," by temperment and ideology, although it depends on the issue (on a few, I am close to a right wing nutter, on a few others shockingly "liberal"). So you need to take over the party from my type I guess to achieve political happiness. Fair enough. Just go do about doing it. You send your check, and I send mine. And so it goes.

I propose that we continue voting out as many rats as humanly possible and keep replacing liberal activist judges until the Democrat party is completely demolished and liberalism is no longer a dominate force in our society.

In the meantime, we continue moving the brightest and most electable young conservative blood up through the farm teams of local and state government and some up the ladder to the congress and or into the state houses, while grooming the very best candidates for eventual shots at the presidency. In doing so, we eventually remove rinos from the party where possible and continue moving the party as a whole and the entire country rightward.

I haven't seen any plans from any third party types that have a chance of swaying voters in the numbers necessary to win national or statewide elections. As long as they can hope to do no better than pull a small percentage of voters from the Republican candidates, then the very best they can hope for is to block the Republican, giving a Democrat another seat. No thank you. I see that as a losing long-term strategy.