[Delacon]

“We just need a true conservative party”.

We just need to make the GOP true to conservatism. I don’t think any party can ever again pull off what the Republicans did against the Whigs. The two parties in power are just too researched and calculating to not handle the complaints of a 3rd party and respond to them. Yes, it doesn’t seem like it but we simply don’t have the rifts that caused the civil war. Any and every idea that a 3rd party brings to the table will be absorbed by one or both of the other two parties in a watered down version. We need to get off the 3rd party mantra and focus on the GOP. We may lose some here and there. Some pundits are pissed at Toomey. He may lose but so what if he does? We need the GOP to run to us, not the other way around. We need to offer the biggest voting block(independents, and they are the only growing voting block) a clear, concise and better alternative. Stick with the GOP and make it a better more conservative GOP.

[nobama08]

I just don’t see many Republicans in Washington who are concerned with the party. Once McCain got the nomination, I felt that the party was lost. He only chose Palin because he knew conservatives were not happy with him.

[oyez]

I can remember Barry Goldwater's run for the presidency. He brought in a lot of new voters to the Republican Party, unfortunately there were many who thought Goldwater may be to extreme, but after four years of Lyndon Johnson even Richard Nixon could be elected.

[Man50D]

We just need to make the GOP true to conservatism

You had that opportunity for the past several years. The OP(formerly the GOP)increasingly move to the socialist left over that time is more than enough proof you could not stop the shift within the party.

I don’t think any party can ever again pull off what the Republicans did against the Whigs.

That's pure conjecture. I doubt anyone expected the Republicans to overtake the Whigs but it happened.

The two parties in power are just too researched and calculating to not handle the complaints of a 3rd party and respond to them.

You're under the false impression we have a two party system. We have one big socialist Republicrat party thanks to the OP selling out it's conservative principles to expand the voter base. Another party will restore the two party system.

We need the GOP to run to us, not the other way around.

We need to dump the socialist republicrat party in favor of a conservative party. You're insistence to remain with a party that keeps throwing Conservative principles under the bus only weakens the Conservative cause and empowers socialism.

Stick with the GOP and make it a better more conservative GOP.

You need to wake up from the nightmare. The OP not only didn't stick with conservatism but has repeatedly spat in the face of conservatives and yet you want to remain with socialists? LOL!!!!!