You misunderstood my point (which, admittedly, was clear as mud).
I wasn't suggesting that an American Conservative Party should be like the libertarians.
What I meant was that for many Democrats who are in fact socially conservative and even religious, to vote for the Republican Party would be to them like voting for the Devil. The degree of partisan hatred is so deep among many on both sides that their partisanship is LIKE a religion, and so voting for the OTHER party would be like committing a sacrilege.
I was trying to make the further point there are a lot of Democrats who are fed up with and pissed off at the immoral direction the Democrat party has gone, but they WILL NOT vote for anything that is the REPUBLICAN Party, because of that word, "Republican". Not voting for Republicans I called a "quasi-religious thing", but I didn't mean by that anything having to do with God. What I meant was that the partisan feelings AGAINST the other party are so deeply-held that they go below reason and have the strength of fate.
There are Democrats who would vote for a new, social conservative party who would never, ever vote for the REPUBLICAN Party even if it had the same platform because of that label: Republican.
Let me give a clearer example. Suppose there was a party in the USA that stood up and was pro-gun, pro-life, pro-military, pro-law and order, anti-illegal immigration, and anti-tax. What's not to love!!!
Suppose it called itself the "Soviet Communist Party of the United States". It had THAT platform, but it called itself Soviet and Communist. Could you vote for it? Millions could not. For many Democrats, "Republican" has the same moral strength as "Nazi". They could vote for the ideas, but never that name.
That was my point.