I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, and I’m going to keep on saying it. The Tea Partiers are the last chance to save the Republican Party from itself.
The Tea Partiers need to flood Republican caucuses at the grass roots and outvote the RINOs. They need to get their candidates nominated, and then they need to support them with the hard-earned money and valuable time.
As sympathetic as I am to a third party, there is no realistic chance of that happening because when all of the people willing to attend protests sit down in a room to hammer out a platform they’ll have so many differences and so little experience in how to resolve them that they’ll fracture into a dozen cliques and never accomplish anything. Furthermore, even if that hurdle could be overcome, building the machinery for a third party from the precinct to national level and everything in between is a monumental task costing tens of millions of dollars.
It would be far, far better to take over the machinery of the Republican Party, and that really wouldn’t be all that difficult. All it would take is for several million people to get up off their butts, resolve to be committed to the task of changing things, and go to every party meeting that exists and outvote anyone else there.