I would only support a third party if the purpose was to "Whig" the GOP.
I don't want to merely get their attention. If we are forced to build a third party it's because the GOP refuses to go where we as a country must, because they collectively decide to be part of the problem.
I hope this is part of Palin's calculation.
The level of corruption and self-serving in the party structure is obvious to any reasonable observer. Cleaning out a state party, as she undertook in Alaska, is one level of challenge. It may be impractical to impossible to attempt to do so on a national level with 50 separate structures.
A third party may be the only vehicle to get us where we want to go.
Having parties split up gives countries "leaders" like Hugo Chavez. No thank you! We rebuild. Reagan wasn't anointed. Reagan loved America and ran a hell of a campaign -- with a lot of opposition from his party and was hated by the msm. Yet he won in a landslide.
I'm through being swayed or having doubts dropped into my thinking. Conservatism is the majority thinking in the U.S.A. The Republican Party can be the conservative party again -- but it won't be unless WE make it happen. If we don't stand behind and PUSH our elected officials, they will not listen and/or lose focus (unfortunately elected office has become a "profession"). A lot of them are getting the message but it is our obligation to remember that it is WE THE PEOPLE who govern and so we must be willing to do the heavy lifting and not walk away.
They did it in Wisconsin! If they did it there they can do it anywhere!