The Republican Party is enamored of the Northeastern Rockefeller wing of the party. The Democratic Party was moved far to the left by Soros and others who used their contributions strategically to force the party to do its bidding. Republicans/conservatives need to do the same thing. Rather than contribute to the party itself, we need to maintain and fund PACs or 527s or whatever we can to help push the party back to its conservative roots. Most conservatives felt they had no choice but to support McCain after the primary season but the real groundwork should have been accomplished before the primaries. We need to identify, fund and push for real conservatives who can counter the Rockefeller RINOs. I don’t know if we have any billionaire sugar daddies like the Dems have, but millions of us funneling our contributions to one organization can have a very strong voice in Republican politics if we truly want it. (Then we need to make some painful decisions about some of the issues that divide us, like illegal immigration and abortion to name just two. While we fight amongst ourselves on these issues, we are handing victory to the worst candidate.) Finally, we need our own ACORNs, our own Alinsky tactics, our own media to step up to the plate, not just in election years but throughout these coming years.
Conservatives should study how The (New) Conservative party of Canada did it in Canada.
Basically, They started another party, the Reform party, later renamed the New Conservative party of Canada, then merged with the remaining conservatives from the old party, forcing the blue liberals, the equivalent to our Northeastern Rockefellers, out.