I'm sorry to see the advice I provided up in 294 is going to go unheeded. I realize it may feel good to make these pronouncements, but surely you realize this divisiveness actually damages the cause you support. Right?
IMHO, it seems you're putting self-gratification above responsible governance. I've seen you make some great, substantive posts with which no one can argue. Why you'd resort to this bickering when you clearly have so much more potential is beyond me.
Like I said earlier, no one can change what conservatives did to you to make you so jaded. I'd apologize on their behalf, but I didn't do those things and I'm sure it would ring hollow. But for your own sake, don't resort to the tactics you say alienated you in the first place.
No, it doesn't.
I used to be one of these "my way or the highway" idiots--I voted for Buchanan in the 1992 primary, and Perot in the general election.
Big mistake--one that I shan't repeat.
I got a "Dutch Uncle" lecture from a conservative.
And he wasn't kinder and gentler about it. He told me, quite bluntly, that conservatives working to split the GOP and then going third-party had probably damaged conservative prospects for a decade or so--because the Republican Party had reason to believe that "conservative" no longer meant "thoughtful and principled," but instead meant "spoiled and unappeasable."
He got me to wake up.
And, as I said, he didn't do it in a way that you would characterize as "unifying." You'd call it "divisive." Frankly, you'd characterize him as a "complete a$$hole." And you'd be absolutely right.
But he got the point across, and that is what I'm trying to do here.
I'm just pointing out the consequences.
The GOP won't trust any of these folks or their leaders.
The GOP will put its effort into issues that these folks don't champion.
Why?
Because, in the end, the GOP will conclude that these folks and their leadership are not to be relied on in any crisis.
If they work to deliver votes--and build a solid track-record of doing so--and an amazing thing will happen. They'll be listened to.
Unfortunately, that involves patience and hard work--and far too many "true conservatives" are repelled by those concepts.