“But I do expect challenges and dirty tricks, the idea of a quasi-3rd party with popular support and funds will shake them up and cause them to circle the wagons.”
This is already starting to happen. I think Tea Partiers are raising pretty substantial sums for basically Conservative candidates (almost always Republicans) and the GOP establishment is basically fighting that. I think they are threatened right now more than the RATS leadership, because these battles are happening in the primaries. That siad, Stupak and others have been targeted by the TPs too - and so that is placing some fear (already!) into the RAT leaders.
I like your ideas, because they’re fresh thoughts and do-able and don’t ply the same - we must throw every last R out path.
“but when any external force threatens their hold on the purse strings they band together as if they were one mafia family.”
Well, we still have the capability to upend and reform the R party, but that window is fast fading. This is probably one of the most important elections upcoming in the history of our nation. From its results we’ll know what condition we’re in and what we need to do next.
I like your thoughts and hope they catch on, along with what DeMint and the grass roots tea parties - like Tea Party Express and others are up to. We’re definitely having an impact (Bob Bennett, Scott Brown, NJ, VA, et al)
Thanks for the plug. FR has a lot of intelligent interesting posters; it’s a good place to gauge sentiments.