[libdestroyer]

“...but you are without hope that you can change things in the next two years.”

I’d rather have another shot at a conservative in 2016.

[libdestroyer]

Read this post on a constitution party forum. The guy makes a good point

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The Prohibition Party "spoiled" the Republicans in the presidential elections of 1884 and 1916. After it happened the second time, in 1916, the Republicans decided they were sick of losing presidential elections because of the Prohibition Party, and in 1917 they passed the prohibition amendment to the US Constitution. That amendment had been sitting in Congress in every session since 1875, and had never before made any headway. So sometimes "spoiling" is an effective technique for a minor party and its adherents to exert some power.

[exit82]

I’d rather have another shot at a conservative in 2016.

I am with you on that, and very hopeful that will be the case. That is why a new third party is so important. The GOP, by then, will be a shell of itself. The takeaway from the last 20 years is that the GOP will not go conservative, even if its lifeblood depended on it.