The GOP owns all non Democratic votes.
The GOP will assume that any non liberal candidate that attracts votes has stolen those votes from any GOP candidate.
The GOP does not believe that the voters should have any options or that the voters are smart enough to select their own candidate for their own reasons.
The GOP does not believe that the voters are smart enough to choose a candidate on their own, that any vote for any other candidate is a wasted or stolen vote.
You will have many freepers upset with you for splitting the vote even before the GOP fields a candidate.
I’ve run into some of that already. Registered Republicans seem fine with it and we get along. Some of the Republican local leadership isn’t happy and wants me to run with an (R). I know I’d have a better chance doing so, but I’m stubborn when it comes to my principles, so I politely declined.
The GOP is the millions of voters who vote for Republicans.
Everything you say about those millions of voters is incorrect.
You obviously saw that one coming a mile away -- and so did I.
Good Luck to you, Deuce!