I don’t think he is the only one leaving that party. Average folks like me have left. I was Republican since 1959 and left last year.
Great. but it's not enough to just leave the party and be done with it. We need to organise a new party to replace it.
Now, I realise the naysayers (and GOP plants) will poo-poo the idea, saying it can never be done (even though their own party is an object example that it *can*). But that's because they are inside-the-box thinkers who just assume that the current political landscape will never, ever change and so we have to always work within it or else nothing will be accomplished. I would urge these folks to educate themselves about "landscape theory" (google it, people) and educate themselves.
There is tremendous anger building up in this country, and I don't mean the hooligans and thugs in Ferguson. Conservatives, traditionalists, populists, libertarians - there is a whole mass of people on the general rightward half of the political diamond who are sick of it all. Sick of the Dems. Sick of the Repubs. Sick of it all.
What that means is that there is a HUGE opportunity for a preference cascade to take place toward a viable, broadbased rightist third party. The GOPers know this, which is why they are so adamant to tell you that we can never, ever, ever, ever, ever hope to replace the GOP. They are scared because they know that we CAN, and in fact, that it would be easier to do than most people think.
Now, when I say "third party," I am not talking about the Constitution Party or other current third parties. Most of these are either vanity parties that only exist to shine somebody's ego, or else are so narrow in their focus that their appeal genuinely is miniscule, which is why THEY are miniscule.
What we need is a mass organisation at the demotic level of people on the Right who are mad - but (I hate to tell some folks) it needs to be a mass organisation that rebuilds the three-legged fusionist stool of the Reagan Revolution (fiscal-social-defence conservatism). That means that SoCons and libertarians and defence hawks and non-interventionists and all the rest will need to get their thumbs out of their tailpipes and work together for the 85% of stuff that we DO generally agree upon.
It could be done. There are millions of people in this country who have simply dropped out because they feel they have no representation from either party. There are millions more who just never got in to begin with because of the same reason. These people don't factor into the conventional equations of the political hacks that are used to come up with the "Go GOP or go home" meme that the hacks on here try to use.
But yet, these millions of people remain.
There are many areas where we can appeal to them. Opposition to illegal immigration. Bringing jobs back home to America. Ending corporate welfare. Ending non-corporate welfare. Opposing gay marriage and supporting religious freedom. Standing up for the little guy instead of the lobbyists. The list goes on.
It can be done. Let the GOP go the way of the Whigs. Let the lobbyists and GOP moneymen and the hacks migrate to the Democrats, where they belong anywise. It's time to appeal to the mass of generally apathetic/discouraged people out there.