[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

[fortunate sun]

Conspicuous by their absence, Life and 2nd Amendment. Life can be just as easily supported by a point of reason, a la Jefferson or Madison, as all life has value as opposed to a religious context.
The 2nd Amendment is the only thing that has kept Obama and his thugs from trying to take over the government in the first 30 days. A government wary of it’s citizens is a good thing.