“You can’t just stomp around when things don’t go 100% your way, you’ve got to dig in for the long haul.”
If things had gone even 5% my way the past decades, maybe I could consider your strategy. The problem is that that virtually nothing in this state (Illinois) or the nation has stopped or even slightly slowed the socialism and attack on real Americans in decades with either party in power.
It is time for a new political party. Maybe their demise, at the hands of their own offspring (the self-responsible, motivated, successful, law-abiding, family-oriented, informed, US-loving ones) will get them the message. The Illinois and national GOP can take their deals with the Rats, big tent, and cowardice and shove it.
Well, assuming that you're not any more to the right than the Tea Party, I've got some good news for you. At our local Republican Party Executive Committee meeting this year the Tea Party got 35% of the vote to take over the committee this year. That's much better than 5%, and two years from now when we have elections we might just take over.
But it's not going to happen if conservatives don't stay engaged. Even Teddy Roosevelt couldn't successfully start a new Party, and his attempt gave us Woodrow Wilson.
If you want to change the world then fight like HELL in the primaries, and then blindly vote (R) in the general elections. Then, start fighting all over again!