[I wonder if he, Trump and others are considering breaking from the party and starting a new one.]
Hmmmm...Very interesting.
“Hmmmm...Very interesting.”
Walker has talked to Trump also. Ben Carson refuses to criticize Trump.
What would happen if Trump, Walker, Cruz, Carson, Alan West, Sarah Palin, Tom Cotton, Mike Lee, Jim Sessions, Dave Brat, Jan Brewer, Bobby Jindal, Nikki Haley, walked out of the GOP in unison and formed a Liberty Party? Perhaps joined by Newt Gingrich, 70 members of the GOP caucus in the House, 15 GOP Senators, and 10 GOP governors.
The political landscape would change immediately. Either the new party and the GOP would form a coalition in Congress, forcing Boehner and McConnell to come to terms with conservatives, or Pelosi and Reid would be back in charge. The GOP would be facing electoral ruin in 2016 as it would certainly lose the presidential election with the base fractured. The GOP could conceivably lose 2/3 of its seats in Congress to the new party. It is even possible the new party would win the White House or throw the 2016 election to the House of Representatives. Imagine Sanders running as an independent, splintering the progressive vote, if Hillary is the Dem nominee. A four way race between Bush, Hillary, Sanders and a conservative would almost certainly result in the election being determined by the current House of Representatives.
Status quo is not going to save the country. We have reached the point where a better result is likely to result from the destruction of the two party system and the chaos that would follow, than to continue down the present path. The election of Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton leads to the same place.