You may as well try to push your efforts through the Democrat party if you think it enhances your chances of getting results.
Funny you mention Reagan. He didn't sit on his hands or waste his time with an irrelevant 3rd party. He moved to the Republican party and worked within that aparatus.
You don't like the party's candidates? Who do you think chooses them? Your neighbors. But you think you are too good to go over and talk to them about electing a conservative PRECINCT captain. You can't even do that so what makes you think you can get any RESULTS.
The reality is you don't care about conservative policies or changing this nation or this world. You are more concerned with your own death and dying 'pure' because you never got your hands dirty within party politics to actually make a difference in this world.
Whatever you say.
Now hear this!!! If you don't toe the party line and vote for republicans no matter what, even when there is a better candidate in another party to choose from, then you don't really care about conservative issues. What country do you think we are living in?
Thou shalt not vote for the best conservative candidate lest he is acceptable to republicans. - The Gospel According to mbraynard