The issue is in comment 48. What you seem to ignore are the folks elected who do pay attention to the platform and who can be considered principled GOP. I don’t think you really want to throw good people under the bus to end up with a third party that will ultimately look exactly like what you dislike at present. You unfortunately reject everything when not everything is bad. That my friend is the democrat view of the Republican party, and it is a lie.
Name 10 actual conservatives who vote consistently with the written platform on the big issues.
From that number if you can reach it, how many of them are like McCain and Ghramm who occasionally vote right but ALWAYS screw the whole thing up Gang of Ocho style?
How many does that leave? 5? maybe? That is how Democrats get power, not by electing principled people.
God I cannot believe I am on FR trying to convince people that voting for principled leaders is good and that electing libs is bad.