More correctly, the party was founded by creating a Republican National Committee which accepted delegates from former Whig state parties and existing Abolitionist party-like bodies.
My proposal is to simply create a New RNC and invite the existing state parties to and their equivalent to send delegates to a meeting which has as its purpose the selection of a candidate to run for President.
You leave the old RNC sitting there flipping its lips ~
“NOTE: The Republican party was founded through the simple expedient of creating a committee to issue a call to still extant state political party structures to meet to nominate someone to run for President.More correctly, the party was founded by creating a Republican National Committee which accepted delegates from former Whig state parties and existing Abolitionist party-like bodies.”
I agree, but that takes money. You can’t just invite everyone over to your parlor. You’ll need to rent a venue. Also, if the event fails (and the press will claim it did in any case) then the attempt will have set back or killed the cause. It needs to be well organized, financed and set up in advance to succeed. You’d need some big names to agree in advance to attend. It needs to project inevitability from the get-go.