“If we want a third party, start building it and bring to the forefront at the next election.”
Yeah, it’s always Next Time. Never now.
Every time the gop puts forth some useless candidate on the ballot, the theme is “OOOH OOOH we gotta vote for him or all manner of evils will befall us!” The only thing that changes is that the arguments become more shrill and the candidates get worse.
We had a full year of primary to pick a better candidate. But conservatives couldn’t get behind one conservative and support them. Instead, conservatives split their support among multiple candidates, with a good number trashing every conservative because they supported Palin, who wasn’t even running.
Then a lot of conservatives decided to support a guy who had never won anything, had no government executive experience, and who then quit the race over charges of harassment for which there was no concrete evidence.
And even when there were only two conservatives left, the conservatives couldn’t decide between them, visciously attacking each other and ensuring a Romney win.
One look at the 3rd-party candidates shows why it is a hopeless cause. The best-known of the bunch is Virgil Goode, who was a democrat for most of his life (but more conservative than half the republicans), who lost his own seat in congress, and had no executive experience at all. Along with no organization to speak of.