Ma’am, respectfully, you’re missing the point.
The idea shouldn’t necessarily be to outnumber ‘them’ in the Republican Party. It’s to be listened to and to make a realistic difference.
We know the Republican Party in its present form can’t win even with its base intact, and will be in even worse shape without it. The Republican Party, like the Democrat Party, exists for the exertion of its own influence.
Splitting is the only way to bring them to the table. If they don’t come, then the party was never worth belonging to in the first place. Who wants to belong to a political party that won’t listen to you?
If you want the back seat on the bus every four years, fine. Stay on the Grand Old Plantation. But I want to belong to a party that wants to rebuild the Reagan coalition starting from its base, so it can start winning elections with a conservative philosophy that we know works. This election cycle the Republican Party showed — in spades — that it is not interested in doing this.
The beauty of the Tea Party is that it reaches across traditional political boundaries. It’s made up regular people who are fed up. The Republican Party could care less about us. So why stay?
Step out and lead this.
The process is available to everyone. Get behind your candidate in the primary and fight but then after that, the object is to destroy another RAT.