[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I'm in Florida now, politics is better, although we lost to Obama and my own local new congresscritter is a code pink supporter. In the US system there is no room for a third party. The only way a new party can form is if an old one ceases to run candidates. The last time that happened was 154 years ago. Since then the only way to change policies is to join an existing party, and ally yourself with other party members to change the party's policies. That has happened on numerous occasions in both parties over the period. One way that happens is the supporters of one sort of policies retire or die and are replaced by either the other party or by the new members of their own party. In our current situation we have see the loss of many more liberal Republicans in the last several cycles, leaving the residual party much more conservative. As far as a lasting taint on the Republican name is concerned, if former associations were permanent, blacks would be Republicans, and southerners would be Democrats. The party is merely a legal structure to be used.

[exit82]

Trying to change the GOP would be a useless exercise.

The elephant is stupid and he gets annoyed when anyone tries to change them.

We would miss the 2010,2012,2014, and 2016 elections trying to change these numbnuts.

The Republicans started by splitting from the Whigs when the Whigs wouldn’t take a stand against the expansion of slavery into new territories. Within six years they won a presidential election.

Now, they are the moribund party. And they will not be giving up their position at whatever part of trough the Dems allow them to have to make room for us.

Put in a third party and we only need 34% to win.