The only way to get a viable 3rd party off the ground would be if existing GOP leaders, eg. Cruz, Lee, Sessions and others in the house were to bolt the party.
I agree but I am not sure what percentage of voters we would take with us. Myself and just about everyone on FR would be in. People who listen to talk radio will be in. Most military, police, firemen types will be in. I think we could get a majority of the blue collar people to join us.
But what percentage of the overall GOP population can we get? 30%? 60%? 80? I just don't know.
I do know that we won't be getting the backing of the chamber or much of Wall Street. Can we scrape together enough funds to even be viable?
I also know that what we are doing now has been and will continue to be a colossal failure. We need to move in a different direction.
UKIP seems to be a possible model we could follow.
That would be one way to do it, but those guys would also need some big money behind them. Some Texas oil guys or something.
I have been advocating for many years something that David Horowitz wrote in favor of yesterday, and that is creation of a conservative caucus in the Congress. Something that would give credibility to its members, enforce discipline on issues, and be able to make demands on the leadership. Something like that could take over the GOP if enough members joined, or break from it if it could not get a decent break. It could serve as a party within the party, so that there could be an annual convention, a platform, position papers, and a leadership separate from the GOP. If we used it to pick the conservative candidate for President before the primaries, it would be very powerful. Let Cruz, Walker and whoever wants to try seek the conservative mantle. Whoever gets it can then go against the RINO weenies and absolutely crush them, with the help of a large organization behind them.
I think the best organization to get this moving is the Heritage Foundation.