The MSM's "demonization engine" is finely tuned to take out Republicans and third parties. A massive influx of conservative voters and candidates into the Democrat Party would mess them up for a generation. How are they going to accuse a conservative black Democrat of being an Uncle Tom?
Conservatism's best chance is to re-emerge as a noisy Democrat faction.
This is a significant factor. To support your comment for a sec, the night Clint Eastwood made his speech endorsing Mitt Romney, two 'Rat Talking Heads popped up on PBS by prearrangement. They appeared first on Gwen Ifill's PBS convention coverage, and then they stuck around another 90 minutes or so to appear on Charlie Rose.
The two talking heads were Mark Halperin, chief political writer (Clinton/Obama flack-hack in journodrag, like George Clintonpoulos at ABC) for TIME magazine and son of the arch-traitor Morton Halperin (Pentagon Papers, "Get Nixon" campaign); both father and son worked (for the KGB) in the Clinton Administration.
The other was John Heilemann of New York magazine.
Halperin made the telling comment. He was stung by Eastwood's star power being used against The Won, and he went out of his way, on both Ifill's and Rose's nickel, to deride and deprecate Eastwood's "empty chair" as "a Bayonne dinner-club routine" -- knocking Eastwood socially, professionally, culturally, and every other way. He did it twice, and so I knew Clint had scored with Halperin and stung him.
Halperin then went on to say -- boasting, actually (so how pissed was he, voluntarily to come out from behind his usual sangfroid? how stung? -- a lot!) -- that in the first place, Clint's "empty chair" fell outside the time allocated by the Big Three networks to GOP convention coverage, so people wouldn't see it (gloat), and the networks would make sure people didn't see it. He then went on to say the same thing about the video the GOP had prepared at some expense and effort, to introduce Mitt Romney to the American People and lay out his CV, his ideas, his values. Halperin boasted that the Media would make sure the People didn't see that, either. He then summed up by saying, these efforts by the GOP to communicate directly with the People over the heads of the MSM would be fruitless: that he and his Media colleagues would "spin and refract" the GOP message with so many "takes" and twists, as to make the message all but incomprehensible to the public, and its value to candidate Romney and his party, zero.
That was his prediction and his brag, and it came true.
Having said that, it remains to say this as well: That the Republican Party did not fight for the air time, did not fight for their candidate and their message, did not kick Halperin's sorry Communist-loving ass all over the United States so that he couldn't drag it onto Rose's set because of all the bruising and bleeding. Because his own authority as a talking head would be in tatters before GOP Oppo got through with him. In other words, the GOP does not recognize the MSM as another 'Rat faction and "candidate" and give them "the Treatment" the way the Media give the GOP the "Treatment". Take them to court, sue for equal time, sue for their refusal to cover Clint Eastwood and the presentation video and for curtailing convention coverage. Do whatever it takes to mow down the filter faction, the spinners and liars, and get that message unfiltered, uncut, un-"refracted", out to the People.
The Media can be engaged. The RNC guys have just given up trying. Which is as good an argument for the "B" Team to take over, as anyone has ever needed.