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I don’t think today’s GOP wants to be in the majority. They are very comfortable being a minority and having no authority, just cushy jobs with outstanding perks. Hence, they put forth crappy candidates. Really, if 40% of the conservatives left and started a 3rd party, it would ensure the Rs never won, which would suit the GOP just fine.

Really, if 40% of the conservatives left and started a 3rd party, it would ensure the Rs never won, which would suit the GOP just fine.

The GOPe better be careful of what they wish for...at some point the Tea Party would evolve into USIP (the U.S. version of UKIP) and replace the GOP as the second largest party.

Republicans nominate Party Stalwarts who don't want to be President and who the Party doesn't want want to be President. If the Conservatives left and started another party they could then do poorly in their first election and the Democrats might sweep. They would probably win big in their second election and continue to win thereafter so long as their members did not get co-opted into the Washington culture which is what happens to most TeaParty election winners.It is pretty much unavoidable now. The political industrial alliance makes them know immediately upon arrival in Washington that they can assure their lifetime affluence by going along, even if they lose their very next election. If they don't cooperate their wealth will be limited to their own salary and investment and they will face withering opposition at every turn. It is easier to play golf.

The only possible profitable avenue is the State Legislatures. Fill them with Conservatives -preferably that new third party but Republicans would do at that level. Then do an Article 5 convention and at least reinstate the 17th Amendment. That amendment made relentless and inevitable the path to centralization and the Total State. Undo the 17th and we might get the Constitution back. It would return representation of the states as States in the Federal government and the States could and would then protect their own interests as they cannot now.

...They are very comfortable being a minority and having no authority...

I've been saying the same basic thing for ages. We once gave the GOPe control of the House, the Senate, the Presidency and a majority on the Supreme Court.

They threw it away as fast as they could as if it were poison.

They did absolutely nothing with the awesome power givne to them. They actually seem to resent voters for putting them in that position.

Normally Senator cochran in Mississippi would normally be polling at 60% or 60 plus in a general election. I have read that in gop internal polls he’s at 45%. Why or they so stupid that they don’t understand that yuo take gop contributors contribution and the spend against their candidate in the primary on radio ads aimed at democrats calling cochran’s opponet and his supporters racist and bigots and people who have no compassion and would starve the poor and needy. Many of those in the 45% are holding their nose to vote to keep control of the Senate but can’t wait to get a crack at wicker, cochran’s cohort in the Senate, in the 2018 primary.