[Kansas58]

If we can't get a majority vote in the Republican Party, for the candidate we want, we can never hope to get anything close to a majority in the general election.

This is simple math.

3rd Parties are stupid ideas. They only give the Democrats more chances to win.

[MichaelCorleone]

“3rd Parties are stupid ideas. They only give the Democrats more chances to win.”

Unless the third party becomes a powerful force (in which case the 3rd party becomes the ‘2nd party’).

As is often quoted: “Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”

On the other hand you may well be right; maybe we should just allow the GOPe to conduct business as usual, and see how that works out.