First order of business in Virginia is to restructure the party by shedding ALL the Mittbots ~ which will include the Governor, the Lt. Governor, several top ranked pukes in the legislature AND maybe all the county chairmen ~ but I haven't gone into the detailed analysis to find all those who are deserving of elimination.
We can rename it something else and attract a fairly sizeable faction of the African-American wing of the Virginia Democrat party ~ led by Doug Wilder.
Our guys would probably caucus with remaining Republicans but they have to take a pledge first.
Once we get through the restructuring option then we move on to national politics. By then other states betrayed by the Mittbots should have brought about their own revolution ~ with a minimum of carnage of course.
In the end the Republican establishment will become a small faction out in the "fringe" where they belong.
If this is successful, the Democrats can do the same with the Socialists in their ranks ~ cast them into the "fringe" and out of our lives.
Sounds like an excellent idea. If you can elect only a fraction of those it would still be a good start.
Unfortunately it should have started in 2008 or earlier, but better late than never.
I know you got screwed in VA with only Romney and Ron Paul on the presidential primary ballot, and I’m sure you have good reasons to want to create a new party in VA (although I would posit that it would be easier to retake the GOP than to run a third-party candidate and have the Dems win by default; and isn’t Bob McDonnell like 100 times more conservative than Doug Wilder?). That being said, Virgil Goode is running for president, not for state senator or Lt. Governor, and if he takes 3% of the vote in VA it could throw the state (and likely the presidency) to Obama. If anything, Goode’s role as a spoiler would doom any chance your nascent conservative movement would have of succeeding.