If we do not have the numbers to control the Republican Party, who do you come up with the math for conservatives to control the country at large?
Also, what “committee assignments” do the tin-foil-hat 3rd Party types get, if by some miracle any one of them gets elected to Congress?
A lot of conservatives have given up participating in the political process altogether. A third party, that represented their political views, might bring them into the process. This would not cause harm, just increase participation in general.
If we do not have the numbers to control the Republican Party, who do you come up with the math for conservatives to control the country at large?
Okay. I do agree that the Democrat Machine is currently a monstrosity. They have won in the arena of educating our youth and they have won in the arena of social media. The GOP pretty much surrendered on the education front after passage of the "bipartisan" "No Child Left Behind" bill.
Just read this interview with W during the 2000 election with PBS -
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/vouchers/interviews/bush.html - the underlying assumption of the interviewer on almost EVERY question is that the typical American is a moocher who cannot manage a school choice voucher program.
NCLB -
The legislation was proposed by President George W. Bush on January 23, 2001. It was coauthored by Representatives John Boehner (R-OH), George Miller (D-CA), and Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Judd Gregg (R-NH). The United States House of Representatives passed the bill on May 23, 2001 (voting 384–45),[6] and the United States Senate passed it on June 14, 2001 (voting 91–8).[7] President Bush signed it into law on January 8, 2002.
In my utopia, I would love for the Republican Party to stand for SOMETHING. Right now and for a long time, they have not. So I go back to that was either incompetence or collusion. Either way, a "second party" does not exist at the Federal level. It is an illusion. IMO, we should spend much of our energy over the next few weeks doing some in depth research all the way into the inner workings of the GOP. Only then can we begin to take back control of anything.