[Windflier]

With all due respect, I believe that the patriotic right would effectively doom the republic to an historic failure, and hand a monumental victory to the evil, Marxist, left by creating a third party at this pivotal and perilous moment.

The America of our forefathers and of the Founders would likely not survive intact from such a move by our side.

As much as many of us are disgusted with the Republican party, the answer is NOT to abandon that recognized and established base of power, to begin creating a new one.

If we politically fracture ourselves a la 1992, we will endure something much worse than Clinton - or even Obama.

Strategically, I don’t believe that we have any choice but to re-take the Republican party as our first line of attack against the treasonous left.

[Ramius]

If we politically fracture ourselves a la 1992, we will endure something much worse than Clinton - or even Obama.

Strategically, I don’t believe that we have any choice but to re-take the Republican party as our first line of attack against the treasonous left.

I think you're spot on with your remarks. Fracturing the conservative side will merely guarantee liberal control.

[Congressman Billybob]

Please.... read what I wrote. The Republicans took a majority of Congress and then the White House, by absorbing dissatisfied members from other political parties. The did not try create a new party from the ground up.

That way lies failure. They succeeded by following the opposite path, first blazed by Thomas Jefferson with his Republican-Democrat Party.

John / Billybob

[Congressman Billybob]

You and I are talking about exactly the same thing. The new entity, whatever you want to call it, would take over the Republican Party by absorbing a majority of its elected officials. So the new party is a major party from the get-go.

The remaining squish Republicans, like Senator Snowe, would then become well-deserved orphans, with no national organization, or fund-raising, or relevance.

John / Billybob

[Jim Noble]

Strategically, I don’t believe that we have any choice but to re-take the Republican party as our first line of attack against the treasonous left.

The problem is that the Republican party is poison in states with greater than 270 EVs, and that isn't going to change anytime soon.

The macro problem is that the "Reagan Democrats", who are the key to revival, hate the socons with such a passion that they won't even breathe the same air.

To have a successful coalition (all winning national parties are coalitions), this conflict has to be reconciled, somehow.

[glennaro]

I agree with your analysis. As difficult as it may be, it would be far, far more effective to change the Republican Party from within (while preserving a check on Democrat/Socialist/Leftist ideology) than to attempt to establish a viable third party that would likely take decades to achieve an electoral majority.