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.
As I said, cleaning out the national party is a challenge several magnitudes greater than a single state party.
Even Reagan was not able to do so.
Practically speaking, it will require not just new bodies in national positions, but removing entrenched RINOcrats in places such as Massachusetts, New York, the entire West Coast...how many places in between?
It will require removing the political chameleons from office and party positions...those who have mastered the art of swaying and bending with the wind...those who talk like Reagan when a Reagan is in power, but when he's not, produce things like "Gangs du Jour" and "Chameleon-Kennedy" legislation.
This Bradley Huntington-Smythe quoted in the article, for example...how much dynamite would be required to remove him from his position? How many Bradleys across the country, how much dynamite?
What are the odds of that? I'd seriously like to hear your well reasoned answer.